English
beagle
see also: Beagle
Pronunciation
  • IPA: [biːɡəɫ]
Noun

beagle (plural beagles)

  1. A small short-legged smooth-coated scenthound, often tricolored and sometimes used for hunting hares. Its friendly disposition makes it suitable as a family pet.
  2. A person who snoops on others; a detective.
    • 2002, Susan Isaacs, Long Time No See, page 243
      […] whereas burying a body in the wooded area beyond the backyard was the quickest way to make a Nassau County Police Department beagle look good.
  3. A bailiff.
  4. A small kind of shark.
Translations Verb

beagle (beagles, present participle beagling; past and past participle beagled)

  1. To hunt with beagles.
    • 1933, Charles Pascoe Hawkes, Heydays: a salad of memories and impressions, page 20
      […] reading men who beagled for fresh air and exercise, impecunious hunting men who beagled for economy […]
  2. To search.
    • 1997, Fletcher Pratt, A Short History of the Civil War: Ordeal by Fire, page 150
      […] Pope clapped his hand to his forehead and beagled like a maniac; he had clean forgotten Thorofare Gap.
Beagle
Proper noun
  1. Surname


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