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Definitions and meaning of dog

dog

English

Alternative forms

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

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /dɒɡ/
  • (General American) enPR: dôg, IPA(key): /dɔɡ/
    • (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /dɑɡ/
  • (Canada) IPA(key): [dɔ(ː)ɡ]
  • Rhymes: -ɒɡ

Etymology 1

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 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, not related to Mbabaram dog.

Noun

dog (countable and uncountable, plural dogs)

  1. A mammal of the family Canidae:
    2. The species Canis familiaris (sometimes designated Canis lupus familiaris), domesticated for thousands of years and of highly variable appearance because of human breeding.
    3. Any member of the family Canidae, including domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, jackals, foxes, and their relatives (extant and extinct); canid.
    4. (often attributive) A male dog, wolf, or fox, as opposed to a bitch or vixen.
  2. (uncountable) The meat of this animal, eaten as food.
  3. A person:
    1. (slang, derogatory) A dull, unattractive girl or woman.
    2. (slang) A man, guy, chap.
    3. (derogatory) Someone who is cowardly, worthless, or morally reprehensible.
    4. (slang) A sexually aggressive man.
  4. A mechanical device or support:
    1. Any of various mechanical devices for holding, gripping, or fastening something, particularly with a tooth-like projection.
    3. A click or pallet adapted to engage the teeth of a ratchet wheel, to restrain the back action.
      Synonyms: click, pallet, pawl, ratchet
    4. A metal support for logs in a fireplace.
    5. (transport, historical) A double-ended side spike driven through a hole in the flange of a rail on a tramway.
  5. (cartomancy) The eighteenth Lenormand card.
  6. A hot dog: a frankfurter, wiener, or similar sausage; or a sandwich made from this.
    Alternative form: 'dog
  7. (poker slang) An underdog.
  8. (slang, chiefly in the plural) Foot; toe.
    My dogs are barking! ― My feet hurt!
    You look good in those shoes with your dogs out! ― You look good wearing shoes that show your toes!
  9. (Cockney rhyming slang) (from "dog and bone") Phone or mobile phone.
  10. One of the cones used to divide up a racetrack when training horses.
  11. (informal) Something that performs poorly.
    1. (film) A flop; a film that performs poorly at the box office.
  12. (firearms, archaic) A cock, as of a gun.
  13. (preceded by definite article) A dance having a brief vogue in the 1960s in which the actions of a dog were mimicked.
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
  • (meat): dogflesh, dog meat, fragrant meat
  • (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, fire dog, dogiron
Hypernyms
  • (animal): canid, quadruped
Hyponyms
Coordinate terms
  • (male adult dog): bitch, pup, puppy
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations

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.
    Synonyms: chase, chase after, go after, pursue, tag, tail, track, trail
  2. (transitive) To follow in an annoying or harassing way.
  3. (transitive, nautical) To fasten a hatch securely.
  4. (intransitive, emerging usage in British) To watch, or participate, in sexual activity in a public place.
  5. (intransitive, transitive) To intentionally restrict one's productivity as employee; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished.
    Synonyms: soldier, goldbrick
  6. (transitive, slang) To criticize.
  7. (transitive, military) To divide (a watch) with a comrade.
Derived terms
  • all dogged up
Translations

Etymology 2

Clipping of dogshit.

Adjective

dog (not comparable)

  1. (slang) Of inferior quality; very bad.

See also

  • Category:en:Canids

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
  • Category:Dog on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
  • Category:Canis on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

References

Anagrams

  • God, OGD, god-, GOD, god, ODG

Afrikaans

Etymology

Inherited from Dutch docht.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɔχ/

Verb

dog

  1. Alternative form of dag (preterite of dink)

Australian Kriol

Etymology

Inherited from English dog.

Noun

dog

  1. dog

Bislama

Etymology

Inherited from English dog. Cognate with Tok Pisin dok.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdoɡ/
  • Hyphenation: dog

Noun

dog

  1. dog

References

  • Terry Crowley (2004) Bislama Reference Grammar, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi press, →ISBN, page 37

Chinese

Etymology 1

Derived from English dog, which is translation of 狗 (gau2, “dog”), which is a homophone of 九 (gau2, “nine”), which is a euphemism of 鳩 / 鸠 (gau1, “fucking; stupid”).

Pronunciation

Noun

dog

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang, leetspeak, euphemistic) Alternative form of 鳩 / 鸠 (gau1)

Adjective

dog

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang, leetspeak, euphemistic) Alternative form of 鳩 / 鸠 (gau1)

Derived terms

  • on dog
  • on dog dog

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English dog.

Pronunciation

Noun

dog

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) The name of the Latin-script letter D/d.

See also

  • boy

Danish

Etymology

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

Adverb

dog

  1. however
  2. Conveying impressedness, emotional affectation, bewilderment.

Conjunction

dog

  1. though

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɔx/
  • Hyphenation: dog
  • Rhymes: -ɔx
  • Homophone: doch

Noun

dog m (plural doggen, diminutive dogje n)

  1. a large dog, especially one of certain breeds

Derived terms

  • Deense dog

Gullah

Etymology

Inherited from English dog.

Noun

dog

  1. dog

Mbabaram

Etymology

From *dwog(a) < *udwoga < *gudwaga < Proto-Pama-Nyungan *gudaga. Related to Dyirbal guda, Yidiny gudaga. False cognate of English dog.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɔɡ/

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

  • tsʼidog

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

Adverb

dog

  1. however

Conjunction

dog

  1. though

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English dog, from Middle English dogge, from Old English dogga, docga.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdɔk/
  • Rhymes: -ɔk
  • Syllabification: dog
  • Homophone: dok

Noun

dog m animal

  1. mastiff

Declension

Further reading

  • dog in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • dog in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

Noun

dog m (plural dogs)

  1. Alternative form of dogue

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French dogue, from English dog.

Noun

dog m (plural dogi)

  1. mastiff

Declension

Swedish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /duːɡ/

Verb

dog

  1. past indicative of dö

Anagrams

  • god

Torres Strait Creole

Etymology

Derived from English dog.

Noun

dog

  1. dog

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from English dog.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [doɡ]

Noun

dog (nominative plural dogs)

  1. dog

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

  • doeg
  • toradoeg

Source: wiktionary.org