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dog

English

Alternative forms

  • darg, dawg, dug (dialectal)
  • doggie, doggy (childish)

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /d??/
  • ("a dog")
  • (US) enPR: dôg, IPA(key): /d??/
  • (cotcaught merger, Canada) IPA(key): /d??/
  • Rhymes: -??

Etymology

From Middle English dogge (whence also Scots dug (dog)), 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, German taugen. The theory goes that it could have been an epithet for dogs, commonly used by children, meaning "good/useful animal."

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.

Noun

dog (plural dogs)

  1. A mammal, Canis familiaris or Canis lupus familiaris, that has been domesticated for thousands of years, of highly variable appearance due to human breeding.
  2. Any member of the Family Canidae, including domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, jackals, foxes, and their relatives (extant and extinct); canid.
  3. (often attributive) A male dog, wolf or fox, as opposed to a bitch or vixen.
    • 1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin 2013, page 149:
      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) […].
  4. (slang, derogatory) A dull, unattractive girl or woman.
  5. (slang) A man (derived from definition 2).
  6. (slang, derogatory) A coward.
  7. (derogatory) Someone who is morally reprehensible.
    • 1599, Robert Greene, Alphonsus, King of Aragon (1599). Act 3.
      Blasphemous dog, I wonder that the earth / Doth cease from renting vnderneath thy feete, / To swallow vp those cankred corpes of thine.
  8. (slang) A sexually aggressive man.
  9. Any of various mechanical devices for holding, gripping, or fastening something, particularly with a tooth-like projection.
  10. (Can we clean up(+) this sense?) A click or pallet adapted to engage the teeth of a ratchet-wheel, to restrain the back action; a click or pawl. (See also: ratchet, windlass)
  11. A metal support for logs in a fireplace.
    • 1902, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles
      In the great old-fashioned fireplace behind the high iron dogs a log-fire crackled and snapped.
  12. (cartomancy) The eighteenth Lenormand card.
  13. A hot dog.
  14. (poker slang) Underdog.
  15. (slang, almost always in the plural) Foot.
  16. (Cockney rhyming slang) (from "dog and bone") Phone or mobile phone.
  17. One of the cones used to divide up a racetrack when training horses.
  18. shortened form of dog meat.
  19. (informal) Something that performs poorly.
    That modification turned his Dodge hemi into a dog.
    1. (film) A flop; a film that performs poorly at the box office.
      • 1969, Ski (volume 34, number 4, page 121)
        Blue was released, and as Redford had predicted, it was a dog.
      • 2012, Ronald L. Davis, Duke: The Life and Image of John Wayne
        “When The Alamo was coming out, the word of mouth on it was that it was a dog,” Chase said.

Synonyms

  • (animal): taxonomic names: Canis familiaris, Canis domesticus, Canis familiarus domesticus, Canis canis, Canis aegyptius, Canis familiarus aegyptius, Canis melitaeus, Canis familiarus melitaeus, Canis molossus, Canis familiarus molossus, Canis saultor, Canis familiaris saultor
  • (animal): domestic dog, hound, canine; see also Thesaurus:dog
  • (male): stud, sire
  • (man): bloke (British), chap (British), dude, fellow, guy, man; see also Thesaurus:man
  • (morally reprehensible person): cad, bounder, blackguard, fool, hound, heel, scoundrel
  • (mechanical device): click, detent, pawl
  • (metal support for logs): andiron, firedog, dogiron

Coordinate terms

  • (male adult dog): bitch, pup, puppy

Hyponyms

  • (animal):

Hypernyms

  • (animal): canid

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

See dog/translations § Noun.

Verb

dog (third-person singular simple present dogs, present participle dogging, simple past and past participle dogged)

  1. (transitive) To pursue with the intent to catch.
  2. (transitive) To follow in an annoying or harassing way.
    The woman cursed him so that trouble would dog his every step.
  3. (transitive, nautical) To fasten a hatch securely.
    It is very important to dog down these hatches...
  4. (intransitive, emerging usage in Britain) To watch, or participate, in sexual activity in a public place.
    I admit that I like to dog at my local country park.
  5. (intransitive, transitive) 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.
  6. (transitive) To criticize.
  7. (transitive, military) To divide (a watch) with a comrade.
    • 1902, Winfield Scott Schley, Record of Proceedings of a Court of Inquiry
      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.
    • 2015, Tom Vetter, 30,000 Leagues Undersea
      Meanwhile, we dogged the watch sections so that both halves of the crew could fetch full sea bags of uniforms and gear []

Synonyms

  • (to pursue with intent to catch): chase, chase after, go after, pursue, tag, tail, track, trail
  • (to restrict one's productivity): soldier, goldbrick

Translations

See also

  • ????
  • Category:en:Canids
  • bark
  • canine
  • cynomorphic
  • cynomorphism
  • flea bag

Further reading

  • Michael Weisenberg (2000), The Official Dictionary of Poker (MGI/Mike Caro University, ?ISBN
  • dog on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • List of sequenced animal genomes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Canis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
  • Dog on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
  • Canis on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

References

Anagrams

  • God, god

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch docht.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d??/

Verb

dog

  1. Alternative form of dag (preterite of dink)

Danish

Etymology

From Old Danish dogh, which was borrowed from Middle Low German doch, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *þauh.

Adverb

dog

  1. however
    Det er dog ikke sikkert, at de taler sandt.
    It is, however, not certain that they are telling the truth.
  2. Conveying impressedness, emotional affectation, bewilderment.
    Hvor er den hund dog nuttet!
    How cute that dog is!
    Sikke dramatisk du dog kan fremstille sagen!
    How dramatically you can present the matter!

Conjunction

dog

  1. though

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English dog. Attested since the 16th century.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d?x/
  • Hyphenation: dog
  • Rhymes: -?x
  • Homophone: doch

Noun

dog m (plural doggen, diminutive dogje n)

  1. A large dog, especially one of certain breeds.

Derived terms

  • Deense dog

Kriol

Etymology

From English dog.

Noun

dog

  1. dog

Mbabaram

Etymology

From *dwog(a), from *udwoga, from *gudwaga, from Proto-Pama-Nyungan *gudaga. Related to Dyirbal guda, Yidiny gudaga. Not related to English dog; it is a false cognate.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d??/

Noun

dog

  1. dog

References


Navajo

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

dog

  1. thump, dub (sound of a heartbeat; thumping sound of a person walking on the roof of a house as heard by someone in the house)

Synonyms

  • ts?idog

Norwegian Bokmål

Adverb

dog

  1. however

Conjunction

dog

  1. though

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /?d??/, /?d?.?i/

Noun

dog m (plural dogs)

  1. Clipping of hot dog.

Swedish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /du??/

Verb

dog

  1. past tense of .

Anagrams

  • god

Torres Strait Creole

Etymology

From English dog.

Noun

dog

  1. dog

Volapük

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [do?]

Noun

dog (nominative plural dogs)

  1. (male or female) dog

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

  • doeg
  • toradoeg

Westrobothnian

Adjective

dog

  1. proper, a lot; added to adj. to reinforce the meaning
    Dog snål
    particularly stingy
    Dog lat
    very lazy

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benny

English

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -?ni

Etymology 1

ben(zedrine) +? -y

Noun

benny (plural bennies)

  1. (slang, usually in the plural) An amphetamine tablet.
    Coordinate term: dexy

Verb

benny (third-person singular simple present bennies, present participle bennying, simple past and past participle bennied)

  1. (slang, usually with "up") To take amphetamines.

Etymology 2

From Benny.

Noun

benny (plural bennies)

  1. (Britain, slang) Alternative letter-case form of Benny (tantrum)
  2. (US, slang) Alternative letter-case form of Benny (one-hundred-dollar bill)

Etymology 3

Abbreviation of benefit.

Alternative forms

  • bennie

Noun

benny (plural bennies)

  1. (informal) A benefit.

Etymology 4

Unknown or disputed. Attested from the late 19th century. Possibly from benjamin, slang from the early 19th century for a type of greatcoat. Possibly in reference to Uncle Benny or Uncle Ben (a pawnbroker), who might accept coats during the warm summer months, though the latter slang term does not appear to be attested before 1920.

Noun

benny (plural bennies)

  1. (slang, dated) An overcoat.
    • 1902, Clarence Louis Cullen, More Ex-Tank Tales (page 32)
      [] and figuring on where the engraved papers were going to come from that 'ud enable me to yank one of the bennies out of the eaves. Nobody ever saw me without an overcoat, and the right kind of an overcoat, []
    • 1931, The Tomahawk of Alpha Sigma Phi (volume 28, issue 1, page 12)
      Horse-hide coats are common, but real "honest t' God" fur bennies are very, very scarce.
  2. (US, slang, obsolete) A straw hat. [early 20th century]

Etymology 5

Clipping of eggs Benedict.

Noun

benny (plural bennies)

  1. (informal) Synonym of eggs Benedict

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