Word Finder - dogs

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A mammal, Canis familiaris or Canis lupus familiaris, that has been domesticated for thousands of years, of highly variable appearance due to human breeding.

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The dog barked all night long.

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Any member of the Family Canidae, including domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, jackals, foxes, and their relatives (extant and extinct); canid.

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A male dog, wolf or fox, as opposed to a bitch or vixen.

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A dull, unattractive girl or woman.

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She’s a real dog.

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A man (derived from definition 2).

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He's a silly dog.

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A coward.

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Come back and fight, you dogs!

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Someone who is morally reprehensible.

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You dirty dog.

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A sexually aggressive man (cf. horny).

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Any of various mechanical devices for holding, gripping, or fastening something, particularly with a tooth-like projection.

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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)

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A metal support for logs in a fireplace.

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The dogs were too hot to touch.

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The eighteenth Lenormand card.

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A hot dog.

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Underdog.

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(almost always in the plural) Foot.

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(from "dog and bone") Phone or mobile phone.

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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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A flop; a film that performs poorly at the box office.

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To pursue with the intent to catch.

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To follow in an annoying or harassing way.

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The woman cursed him so that trouble would dog his every step.

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To fasten a hatch securely.

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It is very important to dog down these hatches...

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To watch, or participate, in sexual activity in a public place.

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I admit that I like to dog at my local country park.

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To intentionally restrict one's productivity as employee; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished.

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A surprise inspection of the night shift found that some workers were dogging it.

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To criticize.

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To divide (a watch) with a comrade.

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Meat from a dog eaten as food.

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We visited South Korea this time around, where we ate dog meat for the first time.

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Meat prepared to be given to a dog as food.

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An insult intended to assert hyperbolically that another person has value only as a corpse to be fed to a dog.

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Did you just step on my blue suede shoes? You're dog meat now!

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Feet, from rhyming slang dog's meat.

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My dogs are tired. Let's get a taxi.

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(usually with the) A greyhound racing event; the sport of greyhound racing.

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I lost money at the dogs last night.

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Fasteners securing a watertight hatch.

Dogs are good at surviving on their own.

Two wise old dogs lay down unleashed.

Mom used to say that children and dogs weren't fooled by people.

Maybe the wild dogs were back.

Shall we have hamburgers and hot dogs on the grill?

The fineness of the hair may perhaps be ascribed to some peculiarity in the atmosphere, for it is remarkable that the cats, dogs and other animals of the country are to 'a certain extent affected in the same way, and that they all lose much of their distinctive beauty when taken from their native districts.

I dreamed that I was walking in the dark and was suddenly surrounded by dogs, but I went on undismayed.

We're not dogs, said the ex-captain of police, and looking round he noticed Alpatych.

But their dogs, where are they?

When they had gone a little less than a mile, five more riders with dogs appeared out of the mist, approaching the Rostovs.

That instant, when Nicholas saw the wolf struggling in the gully with the dogs, while from under them could be seen her gray hair and outstretched hind leg and her frightened choking head, with her ears laid back (Karay was pinning her by the throat), was the happiest moment of his life.

The wolf paused, turned its heavy forehead toward the dogs awkwardly, like a man suffering from the quinsy, and, still slightly swaying from side to side, gave a couple of leaps and with a swish of its tail disappeared into the skirt of the wood.

She tugged again and one of the dogs moved closer, baring his teeth.

I knew no human saw me that night and yet the dogs of police received information on me and began snapping at my heels!

The way he had rescued her from the dogs, and from the fox in the chicken house - yes, there were a lot of wonderful memories on this farm.

Dogs must be leashed in the climber only area and are not allowed at the bottom of the gorge.

If she ran to the house to call for help, the dogs would attack Brutus again.

Three of the dogs ignored the feast, intent on her progress toward the barn.

Her one thought was to plug the hole so the dogs couldn't get through.

Guard dogs trotted forward to sniff him and his men while a doctor in a blue government jumpsuit approached them, eyes pinned to the injured man carried between two others.

Surely if wild dogs had attacked the deer, they would have left tracks.

This was where he had trailed the wild dogs that had attacked her and the dairy herd so long ago.

Another big success was scored, and the National Dog Show Society was established for the purpose of holding a show of sporting dogs in Birmingham every winter.

Sosens monkeys and badgers constitute the one possible exception, but the horses, oxen, deer, tigers, dogs, bears, foxes and even cats of the best Japanese artists were ill drawn and badly modelled.

It is of smaller size than the preceding, and causes more injury to animals, such as sheep, dogs, &c. than to man.

Pit Bull dogs have small pointy ears, and a large black nose.

Besides the family, there were eight borzoi kennelmen and more than forty borzois, so that, with the borzois on the leash belonging to members of the family, there were about a hundred and thirty dogs and twenty horsemen.

By the way the hunt approached and receded, by the cries of the dogs whose notes were familiar to him, by the way the voices of the huntsmen approached, receded, and rose, he realized what was happening at the copse.

Two huntsmen galloped up to the dogs; one in a red cap, the other, a stranger, in a green coat.

It would be nice to see Uncle Sam's grasping dogs coaxed to bay at the wrong tree as well.

Surely such sleuthing and cleverness deserves more reward than hiding in the bushes and watching the dogs of law ineptly do their duty.

Or bring him with you; I like dogs.

After somewhat blackened hot dogs and some canned beans simmered nearby, we returned to the house and left the backyard to the emerging mosquitos.

That's what dogs do—and bears.

They continued up the hill, past the place where the wild dogs had broken through so long ago, and on toward the spring.

The wild dogs were gathering around the circle of light now, and two of them boldly began to devour Penny.

Dogs were held in considerable veneration by the Egyptians, from whose tyranny the Israelites had just escaped; figures of them appeared on the friezes of most of the temples, and they were regarded as emblems of the divine being.

In the early periods of their history the Greeks depended too much on their nets to capture game, and it was not until later times that they pursued their prey with dogs, and then not with greyhounds, which run by sight, but with beagles, the dwarf hound which is still very popular.

It is not improbable that all dogs sprang from one common source, but climate, food and cross-breeding caused variations of form which suggested particular uses, and these being either designedly or accidentally perpetuated, the various breeds of dogs arose, and became numerous in proportion to the progress of civilization.

Among the ruder or savage tribes they possess but one form; but the ingenuity of man has devised many inventions to increase his comforts; he has varied and multiplied the characters and kinds of domestic animals for the same purpose, and hence the various breeds of horses, cattle and dogs.

To this class belong most of the useful dogs, such as the spaniel, the setter, the pointer and the sheepdog.

This condition was elegantly defined by Carlyle as "sitting on a dungheap among innumerable dead dogs."

Painstakingly, the men and women visited each and every building in an incredibly wide area while dogs sniffed the surrounding woodland for bodies or a recent grave.

Maybe you think the British ban on fox hunting with dogs is ridiculous.

It was evident to the dogs, the hunters, and to the wolf herself that all was now over.

The huntsmen assembled with their booty and their stories, and all came to look at the wolf, which, with her broad-browed head hanging down and the bitten stick between her jaws, gazed with great glassy eyes at this crowd of dogs and men surrounding her.

Their horses, bridled and with high saddles, stood near them and there too the dogs were lying.

Wild dogs (Cyon) are common, but neither foxes nor wolves occur in the forest area.

Within thirty years of the invasions, Authari took the imperial title of Flavius, even while his bands were leading Italian captives in leash like dogs under the walls of Rome, and under the eyes of Pope Gregory; and it was retained by his successors.

Pigs, cats, dogs and rats have been imported.