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This entry is about yet another phrase my hubby used that I didn’t know the meaning of because it is exclusive to the Western or American & English cultures.
I’ll use it in a sentence here. The patient who always thought they were sick kept on hounding the doctors for more medication. This isn’t the same as demanding as it means something different.
Hounding is a non-stop asking or demanding in an annoying way to get something or service. In a way, it is a heightened form of nagging but in a very rude way. (Marami akong kakilala at kausap ko sila araw araw lol!)
What surprised me was the explanation of how the word ‘hounding’ was created.
In parts of the USA and especially in the past, hounds or trained hunting dogs would be formed in packs to track down and corner something the hunter wanted to kill. This ranged from rabbits, to foxes to mountain lions. Some of the farmers thought the foxes and mountain lions were attacking their cows and chickens so they would kill the predators. But since the fox and the mountain lion are very elusive, they used the dogs or hounds to pick up their scent and chase after them barking and howling until they cornered the fox or chased the mountain lion into a tree. Then the hunter / farmer could easily kill it.
So that is what hounding means. To act like a hound chasing after a target non-stop barking and howling the entire time is what hounding another person means. We have other names for people like that in our culture but I won’t say them here.
Anah
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