dog
nounverbadjectivetop 1 000 in film dialogue
- United Kingdom//dɒɡ//
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A mammal of the family Canidae: The species Canis familiaris (sometimes designated Canis lupus familiaris), domesticated for thousands of years and of highly variable appearance because of human breeding.
noun
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A mammal of the family Canidae: The species Canis familiaris (sometimes designated Canis lupus familiaris), domesticated for thousands of years and of highly variable appearance because of human breeding.
The dog barked all night long.
[…] I beg again to state, in my humility, that I am Only a Dog. Such a little dog too. […] I am very white, very woolly, very pretty indeed; covered all over with snowy curls, and having two bright black eyes and a black shiny tip to my nose like patent leather.
The preposterous altruism too![…]Resist not evil. It is an insane immolation of self—as bad intrinsically as fakirs stabbing themselves or anchorites warping their spines in caves scarcely large enough for a fair-sized dog.
When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him.[…]. The captive made no resistance and came not only quietly but in a series of eager little rushes like a timid dog on a choke chain.
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A mammal of the family Canidae: Any member of the family Canidae, including domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, jackals, and their relatives (extant and extinct).
This includes the development of hyena-like bone crushers (Osteoborus and Borophagus), a large bone-crushing hunting dog (Aelurodon), and another borophagine frugivorous dog (Carpocyon).
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A mammal of the family Canidae: A male dog, wolf, or fox, as opposed to a bitch or vixen.
Entirely disregarding sex, Ch. Searchlight has a beautiful Cocker head, but as he is a dog, his head is too fine and far too much upon the bitchy order.
Firstly, he was there to encourage and assist the hounds (a scratch pack – mostly dog-hounds drafted from fox-hound kennels because they were over-sized) […]
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rareThe meat of this animal, eaten as food.
Did you know that they eat dog in parts of Asia?
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figurativeA person: A dull, unattractive girl or woman.
She’s a real dog.
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figurativeA person: A man, guy, chap.
You lucky dog!
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figurativeA person: Someone who overeats or eats rapidly and noisily.
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figurativeA person: Someone who is cowardly, worthless, or morally reprehensible.
Come back and fight, you dogs!
You dirty dog.
Blasphemous dog, I wonder that the earth / Doth cease from renting vnderneath thy feete, / To swallow vp those cankred corpes of thine.
And Hazael ſaid, But what, is thy ſeruant a dogge, that he ſhould doe this great thing?
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figurativeA person: A sexually aggressive man.
DJ Paul is a dog; one you do not trust.
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A mechanical device or support: Any of various mechanical devices for holding, gripping, or fastening something, particularly with a tooth-like projection.
Whenever possible, let the tree support the weight of the chainsaw. Pivot the saw, using the saw's dogs (spikes) as a fulcrum.
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A mechanical device or support: A click or pallet adapted to engage the teeth of a ratchet wheel, to restrain the back action.
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A mechanical device or support: A metal support for logs in a fireplace.
The dogs were too hot to touch.
In the great old-fashioned fireplace behind the high iron dogs a log-fire crackled and snapped.
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historicalA mechanical device or support: A double-ended side spike driven through a hole in the flange of a rail on a tramway.
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The eighteenth Lenormand card.
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A hot dog: a frankfurter, wiener, or similar sausage; or a sandwich made from this.
Congressmen gleefully wolfed down every imaginable version of the hot dog – smoked kielbasas, jumbo grillers, Big & Juicy's, kosher dogs and spiced dogs […]
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slangAn underdog.
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slangFoot; toe.
My dogs are barking!
You look good in those shoes with your dogs out!
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slang(from "dog and bone") Phone or mobile phone.
My dog is dead.
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One of the cones used to divide up a racetrack when training horses.
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informalSomething that performs poorly.
He gives his dog-Mota or dog-Fiji in exchange for Pigeon English.
That modification turned his Dodge hemi into a dog.
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informalSomething that performs poorly. A flop; a film that performs poorly at the box office.
Blue was released, and as Redford had predicted, it was a dog.
"When The Alamo was coming out, the word of mouth on it was that it was a dog," Chase said.
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archaicA cock, as of a gun.
To this succeeded the Snaplance ^([sic]), in which a motion was given to the dog, or cock, and a movable plate of steel, called the frizel, or hammer, was placed vertically above the pan to receive the action of the flint.
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A dance having a brief vogue in the 1960s in which the actions of a dog were mimicked.
Hmm, see the girl with the red dress on She can do the dog all night long.
Just like the dog but not so low Like the hully gully but not so slow Now baby swim, baby do the swim.
We had a lovely dance—luckily it was a slow number. I don't think Mr. Lincoln would have been up to the dog or a fast twist.
Etymology
Etymology tree Old English [Term?]? Proto-Germanic *-gô Proto-West Germanic *-gō Old English -ga Old English dogga Middle English dogge English dog Inherited from Middle English dogge (akin to Scots dug), from Old English dogga, docga, of uncertain origin. The original meaning seems to have been a common dog, as opposed to a well-bred one, or something like 'cur', and perhaps later came to be used for stocky dogs. Possibly a pet-form diminutive with suffix -ga (compare frocga (“frog”), *picga (“pig”)), appended to a base *dog-, *doc- of unclear origin and meaning. One possibility is Old English dox (“dark, swarthy”) (compare frocga from frox). Another proposal is that it derives from Proto-West Germanic *dugan (“to be suitable”), the origin of Old English dugan (“to be good, worthy, useful”), English dow, Dutch deugen, German taugen. The theory goes that it could have been an epithet for dogs, commonly used by children, meaning "good/useful animal". Another one is that it is related to *docce (“stock, muscle”), from Proto-West Germanic *dokkā (“round mass, ball, muscle, doll”), whence English dock (“stumpy tail”). In 14th-century England, hound (from Old English hund) was the general word for all domestic canines, and dog referred to a subtype resembling the modern mastiff and bulldog. By the 16th century, dog had become the general word, and hound had begun to refer only to breeds used for hunting. In the 16th century, the word dog was adopted by several continental European languages as their word for mastiff. Despite similarities in forms and meaning, it is not related to Mbabaram dog.
verb
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To pursue with the intent to catch.
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To follow in an annoying or harassing way.
The woman cursed him so that trouble would dog his every step.
[…] they were discovered in a very improper manner by the husband of the gypsy, who, from jealousy it seems, had kept a watchful eye over his wife, and had dogged her to the place, where he found her in the arms of her gallant.
‘Notwithstanding Mr Maxwell’s acknowledged abilities and energy, he is not in our opinion a person who can be relied upon to exercise proper stewardship of a publicly quoted company.’ These words, from the conclusion of the interim report by two Department of Trade inspectors in 1970, were to dog Maxwell for the rest of his business career.
But this is not an Athletic that ever looks comfortable at the back – a criticism that has often dogged Marcelo Bielsa's sides.
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To fasten a hatch securely.
It is very important to dog down these hatches.
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To watch, or participate, in sexual activity in a public place.
I admit that I like to dog at my local country park.
Lightning [is a] burst of charged particles that lights up the sky and allows onlookers to see who's dogging in the bushes without using a flashlight.
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To intentionally restrict one's productivity as employee; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished.
A surprise inspection of the night shift found that some workers were dogging it.
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slangTo criticize.
Harmon Rabb (David James Elliott): Are you dogging Harm's special meatless meatloaf? Sarah MacKenzie (Catherine Bell): Let's put it this way. If you were to make the Harmon Special on this ship, they'd have to unload it with the toxic waste.
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To divide (a watch) with a comrade.
A. We never stood 4 to 8 p.m. watches, sir. We dogged our watches. Q. I suppose that is 6 to 8 p.m., then; it is a little indistinct. I mean the second dog watch.
Meanwhile, we dogged the watch sections so that both halves of the crew could fetch full sea bags of uniforms and gear […]
adjective
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slangOf inferior quality; very bad.
Oh man, this game is absolutely dog!
Etymology
Clipping of dogshit.
Forms
- plural
- dogs
- past tense
- dogged
- past participle
- dogged
- present participle
- dogging
- third person singular
- dogs
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