beagling

[ bee-gling ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, Chiefly British.

First recorded in 1815–25; beagle + -ing ¹

I take these dogs after hares, you know—beagling, we call it.

For the pig is as necessary to truffle-hunting as the beagle is to beagling.

We have heard that beagling is considered by some of the senior boys to be ‘bad form.’

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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