dog 
dog (dôg, däg)
noun pl. dogs or dog
- any of a large and varied group of domesticated canines (Canis familiaris) often kept as a house pet or used for hunting, guarding people or property, etc.
- any of various wild canines
- the male of a canine
- a mean, contemptible fellow
- a prairie dog, dogfish, or other animal thought to resemble a dog
Etymology: < its orig. shape: cf. Fr chenet
an andiron; firedog- Informal a boy or man lucky dog
- ☆ Slang feet
- hot dog (sense )
- Slang
- an unattractive or unpopular person
- ☆ an unsatisfactory thing or unsuccessful venture
- Mech. any of several devices for holding or grappling
- Meteorol.
- a parhelion; sundog
- a fogdog
Etymology: ME, generalized in sense < late, rare OE docga, dogga (usual hund: see hound) < ?
adjective
designating a family (Canidae) of meat-eating animals that includes dogs, foxes, wolves, coyotes, and jackals
transitive verb dogged, dog′·ging
- to follow, hunt, or track down doggedly
- ☆ to hold or secure with a mechanical dog
adverb
very; completely: used in combination dog-tired
a dog's age
Informal a long time
a dog's life
a wretched existence
dog in the manger
a person who keeps others from using something which that person is not using
dog it
Slang to fail to exert the maximum or expected effort
every dog has his day
something good or lucky happens to everyone at one time or another
go to the dogs
Informal to deteriorate; degenerate
let sleeping dogs lie
to let well enough alone; not disturb things as they are for fear of something worse
put on the dog
☆Slang to make a show of being very elegant, wealthy, etc.
teach an old dog new tricks
to induce a person of settled habits to adopt new methods or ideas
the Greater Dog
the constellation Canis Major
the Lesser Dog
the constellation Canis Minor
dog
n.
A domestic animal
hound, puppy, canine, mongrel, cur, canis familiaris (Latin), bitch, pup, whelp, stray, watchdog, lap dog, guide dog, Seeing Eye dog, pye-dog, pooch*, mutt*, bowwow*, Fido*, fleabag*. * Types and breeds of dogs include: hunting, field, racing, courser, boxer, water, shepherd, bloodhound, wolfhound, greyhound, whippet, St. Bernard, mastiff, Newfoundland, Great Dane, borzoi, Rottweiler, German shepherd, Doberman pinscher, Afghan, Irish wolfhound, Labrador retriever, Golden retriever, Chesapeake Bay retriever, malamute, husky, Samoyed, Akita, collie, Briard, Old English sheep dog, Gordon setter, English setter, Irish setter, pointer, springer, spaniel, cocker spaniel, water spaniel, Brittany spaniel, foxhound, basset hound, beagle, dachshund, Dalmatian, English bulldog, pit bull, spitz, chow, Pomeranian, poodle, toy poodle, standard poodle, barbet, French poodle, Pekingese, Maltese, Chihuahua, Mexican hairless, Airedale, schnauzer, Sealyham, fox terrier, wirehaired terrier, Scottie, Kerry blue, black and tan, Bedlington terrier, Aberdeen, Irish terrier, Jack Russell terrier, Yorkshire terrier, West Highland terrier, Cairn terrier, bull terrier, Boston terrier, Manchester terrier, Welsh corgi, Cardigan, Pembroke.
Insulting term
scamp, swine, blackguard; see rascal.
a dog's life<strong>*
every dog has his day<strong>*
go to the dogs<strong>*
let sleeping dogs lie<strong>*
put on the dog<strong>*
teach an old dog new tricks<strong>*
Converse of object
- behave: Up to 2 well behaved dogs welcome ( please note, this property is close to owner's working hill farm ).
- bark: The Bowkers had gone only yards off the public road when they encountered a barking dog, then a barking landowner.
Adjective modifier
- stray: The council must keep all stray dogs for 7 days during which time the owner may reclaim them.
- pet: A pet dog should also be washed several times.
- mad: SCHEDULE YOUR DAY CAREFULLY HEED the phrase " mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun " .
- hot: Kitty wins a year's supply of hot dogs.
Modifies a noun
- warden: Please note there is a £ 55.00 dog warden service charge to reclaim your dog from the holding kennels.
- collar: Dog collars Dog collars avaliable through links in our online dog store.
- walker: She saw a few other dog walkers she recognized.
- owner: Do you know of any dog owner or dog lover who thinks Puppy Farms are a good thing?
- handler: Sheep dog handlers from the northern region will be competing for points to go forward to the English National.
- sledding: The festival utilizes the 1988 Winter Olympics site for dog sledding, snowboarding, and the Winter Village.
Noun used with modifier
- sniffer: Nina Rees, 20, who lives close by, said: " There were police on the railroad tracks with sniffer dogs.
- hearing: We also welcome both Guide dogs and hearing dogs.
- sled: NATURE: Sled Dogs, Sledding Into The Wilderness They call it the Last Great Race.
- prairie: Rodents including ground and rock squirrels and prairie dogs are the natural hosts.
- guard: But then he found he had to slaughter three or four lambs every day to feed the guard dogs.
- pedigree: A number of pedigree dogs are also more expensive to ensure, .
Possessives
- mercury: The rich soils support a diverse flora dominated by dog's mercury and ramsons.
Preposition: in
- kennel: I ask him if he knows every dog in the kennel by name.
Il y aura toujours un chien perdu quelque part qui m'empe" chera d'e" tre heureux. There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will prevent me being happy.
And the Philistine said unto David, Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with staves?
Portrait of the Artist as aYoung Dog.
I cannot bring myself to vote for a woman who has been voice-trained to speak to me as though my dog has just died.
Were I (who to my loss already am One of those strange prodigious creatures, Man) A spirit, free to choose for my own share What case of flesh and blood I'd choose to wear, I'd be a dog, a monkey, or a bear.
He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.
Cave canem! Beware of the dog!
For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
I had learned that if one cannot call a country to heel like a dog, neither can one dismiss the past with a smile in an easygushof feeling, saying: Icould not help it,Iamalsoa victim.
Dog eat dog produces, inevitably, just one dog.
Let's goömuch as that dog goes, intently haphazard.
Beware of anything that promises freedom or enlightenmentötraps for eager and clever foolsöa dog has a keener noseöevery creature in a cave can justify himself. Three-fourths of philosophyand literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were tricked into entering.
It is just as full of propaganda as a dog is full of fleas. In fact, I say it's all fleas and no dog.
The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
I've already had medical attentionöa dog licked me when I was on the ground.
As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.
As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Manö There are only four things certain since Social Progress began:ö That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire, And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire.
You say, as I have often given tongue In praise of what another's said or sung, 'Twere politic to do the like by these; But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?
When all the world is young, lad, And all the trees are green; And every goose a swan, lad, And every lass a queen; Then hey for boot and horse, lad, And round the world away: Young blood must have its course, lad, And every dog his day.
There is sorrow enough in the natural way From men and women to fill our day; But when we are certain of sorrow in store, Why do we always arrange for more? Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.
They go to and fro in the evening: they grin like a dog, and run about through the city.
They know on the Continent that European football without the English islike a hot dog without themustard.
I am his Highness'dog at Kew; Pray, tell me sir, whose dog are you?
When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news.
It don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just goes for him anyway.If I had a yaller dog that didn't know nomorethana person's conscience does Iwould poison him. It takes up more room than all the rest of a person's insides, and yet ain't no good, nohow. Tom Sawyer he says the same.
It's been a hard day's night, And I've been working like a dog.
To make a start, out of particulars and make them general, rolling up the sum, by defective meansö Sniffing the trees, just another dog among a lot of dogs.What else is there? And to do?
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.
Like a dog, he hunts in dreams.
Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog walking on its hinder legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.
For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog isbetter thana dead lion.For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
Love is a Dog from Hell.
No dog can go as fast as the money you bet on him. Flanagan theirheads, nomatterhowcharming a blufftheymay put up.
You ain't nothin' but a hound dog cryin'all the time. You ain't nothin' but a hound dog cryin'all the time. Well, you ain't never caught a rabbit and you ain't no friend of mine.
If you are not the lead dog, the view never changes.
Who is able to paint the existence of a dog as Picasso paints the existence of a cubic shape?
Diabetus. Ligate pancreatic ducts of dog. Keep dogs alive till acini degenerate leaving Islets. Try to isolate the internal secretion of these to relieve glycosuria.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man. Twain The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The law's delay, and the quietus which his pangs might take, In the dead waste and middle of the night, when Churchyards yawn In customary suits of solemn black, But that the undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveler returns, Breathes forth contagion on the world, And thus the native hue of resolution, like the poor cat i' the adage, Is sicklied o'er with care, And all the clouds that lowered o'er our housetops, With this regard their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action. 'Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished. But soft you, the fair Ophelia: Ope not thy ponderous and marble jaws, But get thee to a nunneryögo! See Shakespeare 753:74.
The police dog of American fiction, except that his hatred isnottheresultof mere crabbednessbut of aneye that sees too deep for comfort.
I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.
I would rather have a man dog then a women dog because they do not bear like women dogs, it is a hard case it is shoking.
We know that the tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by the cart; But the Devil whoops, as he whooped of old: 'It's clever, but is it Art?'
Thou art a beaten dog beneath the hail, A swollen magpie in a fitful sun, Half black half white Nor knowst'ou wing from tail Pull down thy vanity.
He that is a traveller must have the back of an ass to bear all, atonguelikethetail ofa dog toflatterall, themouthof a hog to eat all what is set before him, the ear of a merchant to hear all and say nothing; and if this be not the highest step of thraldom, there is no liberty or freedom.
Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man and work like a dog.
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