Hottentot Rude, uncultured, a boor. As "You are a perfect Hottentot."
Hougoumont is said to be a corruption of Cháteau Goumont; but Victor Hugo says it is Hugo-mons, and that the house was built by Hugo, Sire de Sommeril, the same person that endowed the sixth chapelry of the abbey of Villers.
Hound To hound a person is to persecute him, or rather to set on persons to annoy him, as hounds
are let from the slips at a hare or stag.
"As he who only lets loose a greyhound out of the slip is said to hound him at the hare." - Bramhall.