pie

From Hindi पाहि (pāhi, “migrant farmer, passer-through”), from Sanskrit पार्श्व (pārśva, “side, vicinity”).

der

(zoology) Ellipsis of pie-dog (“an Indian breed, a stray dog in Indian contexts”).


feist

en-noun

feist (countable and uncountable, plural feists)

feists (plural)
fist (alternative)
fice (alternative)

Earliest sense is “fart”, and later “stink” as abbreviation for fysting cur “stinking dog” (1520s). From Middle English fysten (mid-15th century), from Old English. Cognate with Middle Dutch veest and Dutch vijst. Possibly from Proto-Germanic *fistiz (“a fart”), presumably from Proto-Indo-European *pesd-, though this is disputed.
One explanation for the association of farting with small dogs is given in an 1811 slang dictionary, which suggests that the dogs were blamed for farting, specifically defining fice as “a small windy escape backwards, more obvious to the nose than ears; frequently by old ladies charged on their lap-dogs.”
Cognate terms include German Fist (“soft fart”), Danish fise (“to blow, to fart”) and Middle English askefise (“bellows”, literally “fire-blower, ash-blower”), from Old Norse; originally “a term of reproach among northern nations for an unwarlike fellow who stayed at home in the chimney corner”.

cog

(US, countable) A small, snappy, belligerent mixed-breed dog; a feist dog.


Afghan

→? French: Afghan, afghan

/ˈæf(ˌ)ɡɑːn/

Borrowed from Classical Persian افغان (afġān, “Afghan”), from Bactrian αβαγανο (abagano), first attested in the fourth century CE, most likely a compound of *apāka- (“distant, faraway”), from Proto-Iranian *Hápa, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hápa (“away”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó + *-āna (“ethnic group”), from Proto-Indo-European *-nós, thus: "people from a distant land". Various scholars have proposed Sanskrit etymologies since the nineteenth century (especially prior to the 2007 publication of earlier Bactrian attestations for the word), but linguist Johnny Cheung notes that these are "extremely difficult to reconcile" with recent evidence pointing to a Bactrian source.


mutt

Mr. Beerbelly, Beerbelly / Get these mutts away from me / You know, I don't find this stuff amusing anymore

1986, Paul Simon, “You Can Call Me Al”, in Graceland:

A mongrel dog (or sometimes cat); an animal of mixed breed or uncertain origin.

Mother fuckin' mutt! You, you fucking piece of shit!

1990, Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese, Goodfellas, spoken by Tommy DeVito (Joe Pesci):

“He’s so blatantly stupid. He’s a punk. He’s a dog. He’s a pig. A con. A bullshit artist. A mutt who doesn’t know what he’s talking about,” he said, among many other things, in a video.

2019 November 20, Luke O'Neil, quoting Robert De Niro, “Robert De Niro v Trump: a complete history of a (mainly one-sided) beef”, in The Guardian:

(chiefly US, slang, derogatory) An idiot, a stupid person.

бара́н m (barán, literally “ram, sheep”)

(Internet slang, derogatory) A person from the United States, in reference to sense 2.


mongrel

From Middle English mongrel, equivalent to mong (“mixture”) + -rel (pejorative diminutive); from Old English ġemang (“mingling”) (whence Modern English among), from Proto-Germanic *mang- (“mix”).

suffix

(often derogatory) Someone or something of mixed kind or uncertain origin, especially a dog.

(derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A mixed-race person.


Newfoundland

Henry VII of England
John Cabot
John Morton (cardinal)
Newfoundland (island)
Sebastian Cabot (explorer)

From Middle English new found lande (in a letter, apparently written in 1499, from Henry VII of England to his lord chancellor, Cardinal John Morton, about the North American land explored by Sebastian and John Cabot, a likely location being Newfoundland, or the name later being specifically narrowed down to it), equivalent to newfound + land.

The younger, a frank, bold, bright-eyed child, was mounted on a large Newfoundland dog, whose impatience the elder brother was trying to soothe.

1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVIII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 311:

A very large breed of working dog from Newfoundland, with a shaggy, usually black coat, known for its water rescue ability, strength, and gentle disposition.


bitch

en-noun

bitch (countable and uncountable, plural bitches)

bitches (plural)
betch (alternative)
biatch (alternative)
biotch (alternative)
beatch (alternative)
beotch (alternative)
bih (alternative)
binch (alternative)
bish (alternative)
biyatch (alternative)
biyotch (alternative)
beeyatch (alternative)
beeyotch (alternative)
bizatch (alternative)
biz-atch (alternative)
biznatch (alternative)
b-word (alternative)
rhymes-with-rich (alternative)

→ Dutch: bitch

→? German: Betze, Bätze, Petze

→ French: bitch

From Middle English biche, bicche, from Old English biċċe, from Proto-West Germanic *bikkjā, from Proto-Germanic *bikjǭ (compare Norwegian bikkje (“dog”), Old Danish bikke), from *bikjaną (“to thrust, attack”) (compare Old Norse bikkja (“plunge into water”), Dutch bikken (“to hack”)). More at bicker.

punk

man forced into a homoerotic relationship in prison

My bitch just had puppies; they're so cute!

All members of one breed, both dog and bitch, champion and nonchampion, are judged in a series of competitions until only one animal remains.

1953, LIFE, volume 34, number 6, page 110:

(dated or specialised, dog-breeding) A female dog or other canine, particularly a recent mother.

dated or specialised; dog-breeding; dated or specialised; dog-breeding

female

when the species is specified or implied


puer

A solution called the ‘pure’ or the 'pewer' (having never seen the word written.., we must spell it as pronounced) is prepared in a large vessel, and into this the skins are immersed.

[…] The bacteria of fresh dog-dung were not found to possess a satisfactory puering effect, but those from dung with had been fermented a month (as in practice) have a result nearly equal to actual puer.

1903, Henry Richardson Proctor, The principles of leather manufacture, page 174:

[…] it was about 50 years before the use of puer was discontinued, at least in Europe.

2009, Tony Covington, Tanning Chemistry: The Science of Leather, page 166:

(chiefly historical) Dung (of dogs, fowls, etc) used in tanning, after applying lime, to soften skins.


apricot

apricot (countable and uncountable, plural apricots)

apricots (plural)
apricock (alternative archaic)
abricock (alternative obsolete)

Alteration of apricock (with influence from French abricot), itself an alteration of abrecock (with influence from Latin apricum (“sunny place”)), from dialectal Catalan abrecoc, abricoc, variants of standard albercoc, from Arabic الْبَرْقُوق (al-barqūq, “plums”), from Byzantine Greek βερικοκκία (berikokkía, “apricot tree”), from Ancient Greek πραικόκιον (praikókion), from Late Latin (persica) praecocia (literally “(peaches) which ripen early”), (mālum) praecoquum (literally “(apple) which ripens early”). Doublet of precocious.


puppy

puppies (plural)
puppie (alternative obsolete)

From earlier puppie (“a woman's pet dog”), of uncertain origin, but probably from Middle English *puppee, *poupee, from Old French poupée, popée (“a doll; puppet”). More at puppet.
Mostly displaced native Middle English whelp (“puppy”), from Old English hwelp, whence Modern English whelp and whelpie.

A young dog, especially before sexual maturity (12–18 months)


dachshund

en-noun

dachshund (plural dachshunds or (obsolete) dachshunde)

dachshunds (plural)
dachshunde (obsolete plural)
dachshunde (alternative)
dachshound (alternative)
dashhound (alternative)

From German Dachshund (“badger dog”); Dachs (“badger”) + Hund (“dog”).

Say what you will of dachshunds, their peculiar shape makes them the easiest breed of dog to trip over in existence.

1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVI, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:

We had decided to take a small dog for the children and we chose a tan, short-haired, six-week-old male dachshund. We named him Fritz.

2006, Ted Freeman, Doctor in Vanuatu, Suva, Fiji: Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific, →ISBN, page 35:

A certain breed of dog having short legs and a long trunk, including standard-sized, miniature (smooth-haired, long-haired, and short-haired) varieties.


pariah

From Tamil பறையர் (paṟaiyar), from பறையன் (paṟaiyaṉ, “drummer”), from பறை (paṟai, “drum”) or from Malayalam പറയർ (paṟayaṟ), from പറയൻ (paṟayaṉ, “drummer”), from പറ (paṟa, “drum”). Parai in Tamil or Para in Malayalam refers to a type of large drum designed to announce the king’s notices to the public. The people who made a living using the parai were called paraiyar; in the caste-based society they were in the lower strata, hence the derisive paraiah and pariah. Alternatively, derived from Sanskrit पर (para, “distant; outsider”).

(zoology) Ellipsis of pariah dog (“an Indian breed, any stray dog in Indian contexts”).


bulldog

→ French: bouledogue

→ German: Bulldogge

→ Portuguese: buldogue

From bull + dog, in reference to bullbaiting.

A breed of dog developed in England by the crossing of the bullbaiting dog and the Pug to produce a ladies' companion dog, having a very smooth coat, a flattened face, wrinkly cheeks, powerful front legs, and smaller hind legs.

The original form of this breed, the British bulldog.

professional wrestling
professional wrestling

(professional wrestling) Any move in which the wrestler grabs an opponent's head and jumps forward, so that the wrestler lands, often in a sitting position, and drives the opponent's face into the mat.


slut

From Middle English slutt, slutte, slute (“a dirty or slovenly person, usually a woman, scullery maid; messy animal to prepare as food; slush, mud”), probably from Old English *slȳte (“sleet”), from Proto-West Germanic *slautijā, from Proto-Germanic *slautijǭ (“sleet, hail”), related to Proto-West Germanic *slaut (“puddle, ditch”). Compare Dutch slodder and slet, dialectal Swedish slata (“idle woman”), Norwegian sludd (“sleet”), and the dialectal Norwegian slutr (“sleet, impure liquid”). Doublet of sleet.

cog

‘Bête!’ returned the angry Frenchman, bestowing a savage kick on one of the unoffending pups which was frisking about his feet. The pup yelped; the slut barked and leaped furiously at the offender, and was only kept from biting him by Sam, who could scarcely hold her back for laughing; the captain was uproarious; the offended Frenchman alone maintained a severe and dignified aspect.

1852, Susanna Moodie, Roughing it in the Bush:

He sent me to an old bark hut, / Inhabited by a greyhound slut, / Who put her fangs through my poor fut, / And, snarling, off she ran.

1905, Banjo Paterson, Old Bush Songs, page 42:

‘Like a slut and all the dogs mounting her.’

1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 17:


boxer

You can tell she's a boxer by looking at her nose.

A participant in a boxing match; a fighter who boxes.

internal combustion engine
internal combustion engine

A type of internal combustion engine in which cylinders are arranged in two banks on either side of a single crankshaft.

They look over the boxes that have been packed, pass judgment upon defects detected by the boxers, and O. K. the boxes […]

1917, Vocational Education Survey of Minneapolis, Minn, page 385:


boxer

From German Boxer, from boxen (“to box (strike with the fists)”) + -er.

A breed of stocky, medium-sized, short-haired dog with a square-jawed muzzle.


dingo

⇒ Translingual: Dingosa

Borrowed from Dharug dingu (“tame dingo”).

Dan was beginning to feel very depressed when suddenly the eerie howl of a dingo rang out[.]

1943, H. Lorna Bingham, The Lost Tribe, Sydney: Winn and Co., page 13, column 2:

Canis familiaris
Canis familiaris#Translingual

A wild dog native to Australia (Canis familiaris, Canis familiaris dingo, Canis dingo, or Canis lupus dingo).

Nahatʼeʼiitsoh Bikéyahdę́ę́ʼ łééchąąʼí ałchiní


tyke

From Middle English tike, tyke, from Old Norse tík (“female dog”), from Proto-Germanic *tīkō. Compare Icelandic tík, Faroese tík, and Swedish tik, all meaning “bitch”.
Sense 5 (“Roman Catholic”) is an alteration of taig, and was first used in writing in the early 20ᵗʰ century.

It was the day of warlocks and apparitions, now happily driven out by the zeal of the General Assembly. Witches pursued their wanchancy calling, bairns were spirited away, young lassies selled their souls to the Evil One, and the Accuser of the Brethren, in the shape of a black tyke, was seen about cottage doors in the gloaming.

1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:


heeler

If your dog is a good heeler, you'll find some competition in the obedience ring.

1999, Ted Baer, Communicating with Your Dog: A Humane Approach to Dog Training:

[A] blue roan, a kind of dog that Jennifer had never seen before. She asked Tim what it was, and he said it was a "heeler", but when she pressed him to say if that was a breed or not, he could not tell her. It was a heeler because it went for the heels of the cattle and not their heads, apparently.

1952, Nevil Shute, chapter 5, in The Far Country, Melbourne: Heinemann:

(Australia) A dog used for cattle droving.

The army of hungry heelers who do their bidding.

1886, Theodore Roosevelt, “Machine Politics”, in The Century:

(US, slang, politics, dated) A dependent and subservient hanger-on of a political patron.


spitz

From German Spitz, from spitz (“pointed”); so called from the tapering shape of its muzzle.

Any of several Nordic breeds of dog such as the Pomeranian or Samoyed.


pooch

Of uncertain origin. One (unsubstantiated) conjecture is that the word comes from Putzi, a common German name given to lapdogs. The name Putzi is possibly formed from German Putz + -i, influenced by German putzig (“funny, cute, small”, adjective).

noncog

My thoughts are disturbed by a man and pooch trying to get off the front of the train. Despite hitting the door button, they refused to open.

2022 November 2, Paul Bigland, “New trains, old trains, and splendid scenery”, in RAIL, number 969, page 58:


babbler

From Middle English babeler, babler, equivalent to babble + -er.

Great babblers, or talkers, are[…] not fit […]for trust.

1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:

Any of several passerine birds, of the families Timaliidae and Paradoxornithidae (both found in Asia, Africa) and Pomatostomidae (found in Australia).

(dated) A hound who is too noisy on finding a good scent.


watchdog

/ˈwɑːt͡ʃˌdɑːɡ/

/ˈwɒt͡ʃˌdɒɡ/


dog shit

(vulgar, literal) Fecal matter produced by a dog.

(vulgar, slang, Australia, New Zealand) Rigged (sometimes shortened to dog).


dog shit

en-adj

dog shit (comparative more dog shit, superlative most dog shit)

more dog shit (comparative)
most dog shit (superlative)
dogshit (alternative)

If anything Putin Is proving out that NATO is dogshit and alliances based on interests other than regions is without fruit

2022 February 27, DFWJ, “Ukraine”, in alt.fan.gene-scott (Usenet):


jug

When the dog’s owners returned with their shopping, I asked what the little dog was. She was a Jug, a Jack Russell-Pug cross. We found out lots about this crossbreed, thought long and hard, and decided a Jug and a Spitz could work really well together.

2013, Lost & Found: True tales of love and rescue from Battersea Dogs & Cats Home, Penguin Group:

2014, Alan Kenworthy, Jugs: Buying, Caring For, Grooming, Health, Training and Understanding Your Jug Dog or Puppy, Feel Happy Limited

2015, George Hoppendale, Jugs: Jug Dog Complete Owners Manual - Jug book for care, costs, feeding, grooming, health and training, Internet Marketing Business

Stanley ¶ Jug (Jack Russell/Pug cross); 18 months old; keeps fit chasing his ball or frisbee, but would rather be laid on his back, snoring

2018, Cheryl Murphy, Dogs just wanna have FUN!, Veloce Publishing, page 110:

A small mixed breed of dog created by mating a Jack Russell terrier and a pug.


fielder

From Middle English feldere (“one who works in the field; rustic”), from Old English feldeware (“field-dweller”), equivalent to field + -er. The baseball sense is from 1832.

inh

A dog trained in pursuit of game in the field.


fluffer

DoggoLingo, sometimes referred to as doggo-speak, "seems to be quite lexical, there are a lot of distinctive words that are used," says Internet linguist Gretchen McCulloch. "It's cutesier than others, too. Doggo, woofer, pupper, pupperino, fluffer — those have all got an extra suffix on the end to make them cuter."

2017 April 23, Jessica Boddy, “Dogs Are Doggos: An Internet Language Built Around Love For The Puppers”, in NPR All Tech Considered:


foxhound

Any of several medium-sized breeds of dog developed for hunting.


canine

From Latin canīnus (“of dogs, dog-like”), from canis (“dog”). Compare French canin.

Two canine animals in a time of dearth, may be truly said to struggle with each other which shall get food and live.

1859, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species:

We carried the dog round to the yard, and I examined his head. […] I accepted the care of the canine patient.

1913, Sax Rohmer, chapter 8, in The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu:

Police in a West Springfield arrested a man named Kenneth Appleby and suggested that he might be a local version of Houston's Dean Corll (this was before John Gacy's Illinois murders had been discovered). Appleby's yard was dug up, but the only bones discovered was canine.

1979 February 10, Allen Young, “Living In The Country”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 28, page 8:

A lost dog sniffed around the flower beds wishing it had some canine company[…]

2005, Gareth Roberts, Only Human, page 17:


chow

en-noun

chow (usually uncountable, plural chows)

Shortened from chow-chow, from Chinese Pidgin English chow-chow. Compare Macanese chau-cháu. See also English chow fun, chow mein, etc.

I'm going to pick up some chow for dinner.

Donlon says, "Well, we're rich and we got beaucoup beer and beaucoup chow. Now all we need is the Bob Hope show."

1979, Gustav Hasford, The Short-Timers, New York: Bantam Books, published 1980, →ISBN, page 93:

(slang, uncountable) Food, especially snacks.

(Trinidad and Tobago) Unripe, or partially ripened, fruit seasoned and served as a dish, e.g. pineapple chow or mango chow.

‘I'd try and grapple with him myself, only I've got my chow in my room, you know, and he goes for pigs wherever he finds them.’

1914, Saki, ‘The Lull’, Beasts and Superbeasts:

While we were talking, one of the chows, the rusty one, had come over to me and I was absently petting him.

1988 March 4, Jane Weinberg, “First Person: Me and Georgia O'Keeffe”, in Chicago Reader:


chow

A prefecture or district of the second rank in China, or the chief city of such a district.


chow

Phono-semantic matching of Chinese 吃 (chī, literally “to eat”), influenced by the “food” sense of Etymology 1 above.

psm

(mahjong) A call for forming such a run using a discarded tile.

上

mahjong: a call for a set of three consecutive tiles


chow

en-verb

chow (third-person singular simple present chows, present participle chowing, simple past and past participle chowed)

chows (present singular third-person)
chowing (participle present)
chowed (participle past)
chowed (past)

[…] while the adversary on his right will repeatedly bury in the discard the very tiles he wishes to chow but can't.

2007, Eleanor Noss Whitney, A Mah Jong Handbook: How to Play, Score, and Win, page 154:

(mahjong) To call a discarded tile to produce a chow.


poodle

From German Pudel, a shortened form of Pudelhund, a compound of Hund (“dog”) and the German Low German term Pudel, Pūdel (“puddle”), from the onomatopoeic term pudeln (“to splash about”). First attested in 1773 in the sense 1.
The verb sense references the appearance a poodle with shaved legs, displaying its skin.

Unnamed Vato 1: Maybe I do have more issues than a magazine stand, but all those magazines are puro fancy. I never wanted to be a vato. I just want to groom and train poodles.
Mocho: I secretly groom and train poodles.
Chalaza: Are you guys messing with me? Whenever you turn your back, I secretly groom and train poodles. Watch. Turn your back. I'm doing it. I'm doing it!
Unnamed Vato 1: I can't see. My back is turned.

2007, Xavier: Renegade Angel, season 1, episode 2:

A breed of dog originating in Europe as hunting dogs, and having heavy, curly coat in a solid color; their shoulder height indicates their classification as standard, medium, miniature, or toy.


sheepdog

sheepdogs (plural)
sheep dog (alternative)

Any of various breeds of dog used for herding sheep; an individual of such a breed.

Any of various breeds of dog used for guarding sheep; an individual of such a breed.


sheepdog

sheepdog (third-person singular simple present sheepdogs, present participle sheepdogging, simple past and past participle sheepdogged)

sheepdogs (present singular third-person)
sheepdogging (participle present)
sheepdogged (participle past)
sheepdogged (past)
sheep dog (alternative)

Given the vivacious young redhead's attractiveness, some might have assumed he had more than simply professional reasons for sheepdogging her career, but they would have been wrong. He'd seen something in her ...

1999, David Weber, Echoes of Honor, Baen Publishing Enterprises, →ISBN:

On June 14, with Kennedy personally sheepdogging it, the No Child Left Behind Act passed the Senate ninety-one to eight.

2009, Carl M. Cannon, Lou Dubose, Jan Reid, Boy Genius: Karl Rove, the Architect of George W. Bush's Remarkable Political Triumphs, PublicAffairs, →ISBN:


doggy

en-adj

doggy (comparative doggier, superlative doggiest)

doggier (comparative)
doggiest (superlative)

From Middle English doggi, equivalent to dog + -y (adjectival suffix).


doghouse

"But, honey, whar yo' ole man gwine ter sleep?" "Dey's straw in de barn, en pine shatters in de doghouse!" she shouted, slamming the window.

1902, Thomas Dixon, The Leopard's Spots: A Romance of the White Man's Burden--1865-1900, page 61:

Any small house or structure or enclosure used to house a dog.

Mechanically, an equipment cover with an opening, with a shape resembling a doghouse.

During the slave trade, slaves were packed into every available niche aboard the slave ships, including the officers' cabins. The officers slept on deck in semi-cylindrical boxes, nicknamed "dog houses." The term "in the dog house" grew to describe being in a difficult situation due to the extreme discomfort of sleeping in these boxes.

1981, Charles Snelling, “Nomenclature of Ships”, in Naval Sea Systems Command publication:

(nautical) A difficult or demoralizing situation.

A traffic signal with five sections: two on the bottom, two in the middle, and one on top.


bow-wow

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-bow-wow.wav

1902, Theodore Roosevelt, letter to Kermit Roosevelt dated 13 October, 1902, in Joseph Bucklin Bishop (editor), Theodore Roosevelt’s Letters to His Children, New York: Scribner, 1919, p. 36,
Gem is really a very nice small bow-wow, but Mother found that in this case possession was less attractive than pursuit.

My grandchild, who, when walking, wobbles,
Calls dogs Bow-wows, and turkeys, Gobbles.
Today I called a cow Moo-moo;
She’s got me talking that way too.

1953, Ogden Nash, “The Pushover”, in You Can’t Get There From Here, Boston: Little, Brown & Co., page 56:


Rex

Rex Lex (meaning that the King is the law)

Lex Rex (meaning that the King is not absolute but subject to the law)

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs
Proto-Italic *rēks
Latin rēxbor.
English Rex
From Latin rēx (“king”). Doublet of rajah and roy.

etymon

A male given name from Latin coined in the nineteenth century from Latin rex "king," rarely given today.

unincorporated community
unincorporated community

An unincorporated community in Clayton County, Georgia, United States.

census-designated place
census-designated place

A census-designated place in Robeson County, North Carolina, United States.


kuri

An extinct, bushy-tailed, short-legged dog of New Zealand.


Great Dane

A mastiff known for its great size, bred in Germany to hunt boar and large game.


bandog

bandogs (plural)
band-dog (alternative)
ban dog (alternative)

The horsemen spreading themselves along the side of the cover, waited untill the keeper entered, leading his ban-dog; a large blood-hound tied in a leam or band, from which he takes his name.

1808, Joseph Strutt, [Walter Scott], “Section [IX]. Chapter II.”, in [Walter Scott], editor, Queenhoo-Hall, a Romance: And Ancient Times, a Drama. […], volume IV, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for John Murray, […]; and Archibald Constable & Co. […], →OCLC, pages 48–49:

Patriots may smile; and, using him [ Jean-Paul Marat ] as bandog now to be muzzled, now to be let bark....

1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):

The guns on the fortress responded, but the small calibre made them sound as if they were yapping like bandogs while the bombers bayed and gave tongue like hounds in cry.

1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 934:

(archaic) A dog that has been tied up; a mastiff or other kind of guard dog.


barker

From Middle English berkere; equivalent to bark (“dog noise”) + -er.

My neighbor's dog is a constant barker that keeps me awake at night.

Edmund was barker on sight, like foolish stay-at-home dogs.

1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 42:

Bob had amassed a considerable stockpile of double entendres from his days working as a barker for a strip joint.

1893, James Otis, The Adventures of a Country Boy at a Country Fair:

For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.

2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:

A person employed to solicit customers by calling out to passersby, e.g. at a carnival.

vyvolávač

The barker looks action-packed, but actually playing the game is rather dull.

(video games) A video game mode where the action is demonstrated to entice someone to play the game.

Barney, opening a cupboard, brought forth several articles, which he hastily crammed into the pockets.
“Barkers for me, Barney," said Toby Crackit.
“Here they are,” replied Barney, producing a pair of pistols.

1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC:

Parkin, the Oxford Street gunmaker, sent me a brace of barkers in silver mountings, with my initials engraved—good for trade, I imagine.

1969, George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman, page 45:


barker

From Middle English barker; equivalent to bark (“surface of tree”) + -er.

The profession of barker has been made largely obsolete by the realization that in most cases saplings can be cultivated far more profitably.

(historical) A person who removes needed or valuable tree bark, as on a cinnamon or cinchona plantation.

cascador

a person who strips needed or valuable bark

Run these logs through the barker so we can use them as fence posts.

A machine used to remove unneeded bark from wood.


doodle

Extracted from Labradoodle, itself a blend of labrador and poodle

Any crossbreed of a poodle with a different breed of dog.


cockapoo

cockapoos (plural)
cockerpoo (alternative)

Blend of cocker spaniel + poodle with influence from cockatoo.

A cross between an American cocker spaniel and a miniature poodle.


rug

en-verb

rug (third-person singular simple present rugs, present participle rugging, simple past and past participle rugged)

rugs (present singular third-person)
rugging (participle present)
rugged (participle past)
rugged (past)

Uncertain; probably of North Germanic origin; perhaps inherited via Middle English *rugge (suggested by Middle English ruggy (“hairy, shaggy, bristly”) and rugged (“hairy, shaggy, rugged”)), from Old Norse rǫgg (“shagginess, tuft”), from Proto-Germanic *rawwō (“long wool”), probably related to *rūhaz (“rough”), related to English rag and rough.
Cognate with dialectal Norwegian rugga (“coarse coverlet”), Swedish rugg (“rough entangled hair”), related to English rag and rough. Compare also Old English rȳhe (“rug, rough covering, blanket”).


wolf dog

wolf dogs (plural)
wolfdog (alternative)
wolf-dog (alternative)

One grisly old wolf-dog alone, with the liberty of an indulged favourite, had planted himself close by the chair of state, and occasionally ventured to solicit notice by putting his large hairy head upon his master’s knee, or pushing his nose into his hand.

1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter III, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:

Bayan was a dog, a tall gray wolf-dog. He could jump over the table with a single bound.

1916, Arthur Ransome, “The Hut in the Forest”, in Old Peter's Russian Tales:

The wolfdog sprawls on his back, wriggling obscenely with begging paws, his long black tongue lolling out.

1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 2]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:


Snoopy

Some dogs will be back porch familiars — beagles with soulful, Snoopy eyes: Dalmatians with spots; bassets with mitten ears; Siberian huskies with wolfish voices; Collies that look just like Lassie.

1978 January 20, “A Day For Dogs And Dog Lovers”, in Milwaukee Journal:

My daughter calls these "Snoopy eyes" after the childlike presentation of the beagle in Schulz's cartoon Peanuts.

2005, Russell Dale Guthrie, The nature of Paleolithic art, page 93:

Mary Mann, another sophomore, sits on the roof of a red dog house, giving her most enigmatic Snoopy look.

2006 April 14, “Good Grief! A Student Musical.”, in The Virginian Pilot:

Being excessive or overzealous only gives the patient a surprised “Snoopy” look.

2009, Douglas Hamilton with Babak Azizzadeh, Beverly Hills Beauty Secrets, page 161:

Charlie Brown's pet beagle in the comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz; often representing doggish soulfulness.


Zuchon

A breed of dog, a cross between a bichon and a Shih Tzu.


Goldendoodle

Goldendoodles (plural)
goldendoodle (alternative)
golden doodle (alternative)

Now there are dozens of mixes, most of which are a poodle blend. There is the goldendoodle, labradoodle, maltipoo, schnoodle, shihpoo, and the puggle, a mix of a pug and a beagle.

2007, Earl Mindell, Elizabeth Renaghan, Dr. Earl Mindell’s Nutrition and Health for Dogs, Basic Health Publications, Inc., →ISBN, page 117:

Pretty soon, with poodles as the go-to sire dog, there were goldendoodles, cockapoos, Airedoodles, bich-poos, bassetoodles, shih-poos.

2013, Sue Halpern, A Dog Walks into a Nursing Home: Lessons in the Good Life from an Unlikely Teacher, Riverhead Books, →ISBN:

(cynology) A mixed breed dog that is a cross between the Golden Retriever and the poodle.


Samoyed

From Russian самое́д (samojéd), probably from Sami *saam-edne (“land of the people”); compare Finnish Suomi (“Finn”). In the course of borrowing, the word was folk-etymologically reinterpreted as сам (sam, “self, own”) + есть, ед- (jestʹ, jed-, “eat”), "self-eater."

(endearing nicknames)

(zoology) A hardy breed of dog from Siberia.


harrier

A kind of dog used to hunt hares; a harehound.


Labradoodle

Participating pooches must be between 12-20 weeks old at the time of taping. This year, two labradoodles, a pomsky and a corgi are among members the Central Florida contingent.

2023 January 27, Patrick Connolly, “Meet the Orlando rescue dogs playing in Puppy Bowl XIX”, in Orlando Sentinel:

A dog that is a cross between a Labrador and a poodle.


spaniel

→ Dutch: spaniël

From Middle English spaynol, from Old French espaigneul (modern French épagneul), from Old Occitan espaignol, from Vulgar Latin *Hispāniolus (“Spanish”), from Hispānia (“Spain”).

Any of various small to medium-sized breeds of gun dog having a broad muzzle, long, wavy fur and long ears that hang at the side of the head, bred for flushing and retrieving game.


Fido

From Spanish or Italian fido from Latin fīdus (“faithful”). Popularly claimed to be directly from Latin fīdō (“I trust, rely on”) instead of the Romance intermediary, but this might be folk etymology. The stereotypical dog's name is evidently very old; a newspaper from 1760 cites, "[a] small white Greyhound with a Collar, answers to the Name of Fido."

This may provide a simple explanation for the seemingly universal desire of all dogs to drink from the toilet. Since toilet water has likely been refreshed more recently than the water in Fido's bowl, it tastes better.

2019, Marc Bekoff, Jessica Pierce, Unleashing Your Dog:


limmer

Uncertain; perhaps from limb, or French limier; see leamer.

A mongrel, such as a cross between the mastiff and hound.

(nautical) A manrope at the side of a ladder.


limmer

en-adj

limmer (comparative more limmer, superlative most limmer)

more limmer (comparative)
most limmer (superlative)

Then the limmer Scottes ared me, burnt my guddes, and made deadlie feede on me and my barnes.

The roote is long and very limmer, spreading his bráches both large and long under the earth and doth oftentimes let, hinder, & staye both the plough and Dren in toyling the ground, for they be so tough and limmer, that the share & colter of the plough cannot easily divide and cut them asunder.

1578, Rembert Dodoens, A Nievve Herball, Or Historie of Plantes, page 669:

Auld plenishen out by was strew'd, Guid L--d but it was limmer; Some creepy stools, an' shelfs weel scower'd Tae hide the worm pict tim'er Tae sell that day.

1844, Robert Huddleston, A Collection of Poems and Songs, on rural subjects, page 81:

If you ride with the hell-spawned reivers and live as a limmer thief then you must expect to be singed by hell's fire.

2002, Linda Lea Castle, Embrace the Sun: The Vaudrys, page 13:

Limber; flexible (either physically or morally).


mastiff

en-noun

mastiff (plural mastiffs or (archaic) mastives)

mastiffs (plural)
mastives (archaic plural)
Mastiff (alternative)

From Middle English mastif, mastyf, an aberrant derivation (with influence from Old French mestif) from Old French mastin (modern French mâtin), from Vulgar Latin *mansuetinus (“tamed (animal)”), from Latin mansuetus (“tamed”).

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At which time, they wryte that Demoſthenes told the people of Athens, the fable of the ſheepe and woulues, how that the woulues came on a time, and willed the ſheepe, if they woulde haue peace with them, to deliuer them their maſtiues that kept them.

1579, Plutarke of Chæronea [i.e., Plutarch], “The Life of Demosthenes”, in Thomas North, transl., The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romaines, […], London: […] Richard Field, →OCLC, page 908:

As ſaluage Bull, whom two fierce maſtiues bayt, / When rancour doth with rage him once engore, / Forgets with wary warde them to awayt, / But with his dreadfull hornes them driues afore, / Or flings aloft or treades downe in the flore, / Breathing out wrath, and bellowing diſdaine, / That all the foreſt quakes to heare him rore: […]

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 302:

They fill’d the Capitoll, and Pompei’s Circke: / Where, like ſo many Maſtiues, biting ſtones, / As if his Statues novv vvere ſenſitiue / Of their vvild fury, firſt they teare them dovvne: / Then faſtning ropes, drag them along the ſtreetes, […]

1603 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, Seianus His Fall, London: […] G[eorge] Elld, for Thomas Thorpe, published 1605, →OCLC, Act V, signature [M4], verso:

Avaunt, you curs! Be thy mouth or black or white, Tooth that poisons if it bite; Mastiff, greyhound, mongrel grim, Hound or spaniel, brach or him.

c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vi]:

The conquering foe they soon assail’d; / First Trulla stav’d, and Cerdon tail’d, / Until their Mastives loos’d their hold: / And yet alas! do what they could, / The worsted Bear came off with store / Of bloudy wounds, but all before.

1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]. Canto III.”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678, →OCLC; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC, page 63:

Soon as Ulyſſes near th’encloſure drew, / With open mouths the furious maſtives flew: […]

1725, Homer, “Book XIV”, in [Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume III, London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC, page 233:

Her, who did erst the lengthened fight maintain, / And heaped the death-pile red with Prankish gore, / The Vert fangs now to vassalage constrain: / The mastives old and young, Verrucchio bore, / Who in their lawless rule Montagna slew, / Make their teeth augres where they wont of yore: […]

1843, Dante Alighieri, translated by John Dayman, The Inferno of Dante Alighieri, Translated in the Terza Rima of the Original, with Notes and Appendix, London: William Edward Painter, […], page 173:

The Mastiff is a good fighter, and can kill a wildcat, taking the necessary punishment well, as we found out when we once trapped one of these small lynxes.

1896, Theodore Roosevelt, chapter 11, in Ranch Life and the Hunting-Trail, The Century Co.:

Neither of them could say how many years it had been since the week-long poisoning epidemic, which first took their father’s bulls, then his mastives, then the man himself; […]

1989, Bob Shacochis, “Les Femmes Creoles: A Fairy Tale”, in The Next New World, New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 22:

Milei’s allies reject his portrayal as an unbalanced powder keg, although they do not refute claims their leader takes counsel from his cloned mastiffs.

2023 November 19, Tom Phillips, “Argentina holds breath as far-right Milei seizes narrow runoff advantage”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

One of an old breed of powerful, deep-chested, and smooth-coated dogs, used chiefly as watchdogs and guard dogs.


Saint Bernard

Saint Bernards (plural)
St. Bernard (alternative)

The dogs were originally bred for rescue at the Great St Bernard Pass on the Italian-Swiss border, and Little St Bernard Pass in the Italian-French border, located close to one another.

One of a breed of large dog, famous for rescuing people on mountains.


Dalmatian

Dalmatians (plural)
dalmatian (alternative)

One of a breed of dog with a short, white coat with dark spots.


Molossian

But meanwhile a new grating was opened, and into the arena rushed, with mad speed and barking, whole packs of dogs,—gigantic, yellow Molossians from the Peloponnesus, pied dogs from the Pyrenees, and wolf-like hounds from Hibernia, purposely famished; their sides were lank, and their eyes bloodshot.

1896, Henryk Sienkiewicz, chapter LV, in Jeremiah Curtin, transl., “Quo Vadis.” A Narrative of the Time of Nero., Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Company, page 432:

The hounds were Indian, Cretan or Locrian; there were also Molossians (mastiffs) and Spartans (big greyhounds).

1975, Roger Longrigg, The History of Foxhunting, page 14:

One constituent spent an hour educating me on the history of pit bulls: the Molossians, the Mastiffs; the Greeks, Romans, Brits, Tibetans, and Germans; the crossbreeds. A common theme ran throughout their history: they were the fiercest of fighters, and eventually bred to fight—in wars during antiquity, in dog fights for centuries. Regardless, they were again and again attacking other dogs and people.

2012, Michael Bryant, 28 Seconds: A True Story of Addiction, Tragedy, and Hope, Viking:

He loved dogs, indulged by Antius’ kennel composed of Neapolitan mastiffs and molossians, original Roman war dogs.

2017, Mary Dove, “Quintus”, in The End of Seven, Dog Ear Publishing, →ISBN, page 194:

A breed of large dog of classical antiquity native to Epirus, resembling a mastiff and used as a hunting dog and guard dog.


whippet

Probably from whip (“to move quickly”) + -et.

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A dog of a certain breed, similar to a small greyhound, originating in Britain and bred for racing.

whippet

a dog of a certain breed, similar to a small greyhound, originating in Britain and bred for racing


Jack Russell terrier

en-noun

Jack Russell terrier (plural Jack Russell terriers)

A type of small dog, usually brown and white in color, often used by farmers for rodent control.


greyhound

greyhounds (plural)
grayhound (alternative)

From Old English grīġhund, from a cognate or borrowing of Old Norse grøy (“bitch”) (whence Icelandic grey, thus not related to the colour grey) plus hund (“hound”). Altered by folk etymology to appear to be grey + hound.

Her young heart was full of love; and a world of kindly feelings were wasted on her delicate greyhound, her bright winged birds, and her favourite flowers.

1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 127:

A lean breed of dog used in hunting and racing.


husky

Shortening of husky dog, where husky is ultimately from the same Old Montagnais root as Eskimo.

Any of several breeds of dogs used as sled dogs.

хъски

any of several breeds of dogs used as sled dogs


Dobermann

Dobermanns (plural)
Doberman (alternative)

Borrowed from German Dobermann, from the name of Karl Friedrich Louis Dobermann, who first developed this breed. Dobermann was born "Tobermann." Tobermann is derived from "Tober" (an Ashkenazic variant of Tauber) plus a suffixal -mann. Tauber is both the name of a river in Germany, and the German word for a pigeon (variant of Taube (“dove, pigeon”), formed [perhaps] to distinguish meaning.) The former is derived from Celtic, the latter from Proto-Germanic. See Dover, dove.

A large breed of guard dog bred in Germany.


terrier

Borrowed from Middle French, from Old French chien terrier (“terrier dog”), from chien (“dog”) + Old French terrier (“of earth”, adjective), from Medieval Latin terrarius (“of earth”), from Latin terra (“earth”).

der

A dog from a group of small, lively breeds, originally bred for the hunting of burrowing prey such as rats, rabbits, foxes, and even otters; this original function is reflected in some of their names (e.g. rat terrier).


schnauzer

A dog of a particular breed originating in Germany.


brach

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Originally in plural, from Old French brachez, plural of brachet, a diminutive of Occitan brac, from Frankish. Cognate to the German Bracke. More at brachet.

FOOL: Truth's a dog that must to kennel; he must be whipped out, when Lady, the brach, may stand by the fire and stink.

c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv], lines 109-111:

Mastiffe, Grey-hound, Mongrill, Grim, / Hound or Spaniell, Brache, or Hym […].

A sow-pig by chance sucked a brach, and when she was grown, “would miraculously hunt all manner of deer, and that as well, or rather better than any ordinary hound.”

(archaic) A hound; especially a female hound used for hunting, a bitch hound.


blue heeler

Shorty the Sixth, as he was sometimes called, had been a very winning puppy, and they had kept him at home until he began to exhibit the same tendencies that Duane's blue heelers always exhibited, that is, a tendency to herd children in the same way they would have herded cattle or sheep: they nipped their heels.

2003, Larry McMurtry, Duane's Depressed, page 75:

He always has his blue heeler dog in his office tucked away under his feet or near the door.

2007, Graham Greenwood, A Truckie's Dream: The Allan Scott Story : His Official Biography, page 113:

For some time, Dan and Pat had been at me to get a dog so we took a trip to the Yagoona RSPCA and came back with a blue heeler pup.

2008, Elizabeth Bruce, A Show Off, Just Like Your Father, page 92:

Australian Cattle Dog
Australian Cattle Dog

(Australia) A blue-coated variety of the Australian Cattle Dog breed.


cairn

From Scots cairn, from Scottish Gaelic càrn, from Old Irish carn, from Proto-Celtic *karnos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“horn”).
Compare Welsh carn, Cornish carn. Doublet of carn and horn.


wolfhound

A dog of various breeds originally developed to hunt wolves.


Hokkaido

Hokkaidos (plural)
Hokkaidō (alternative)

From Japanese 北(ほっ)海(かい)道(どう) (Hokkaidō, “North Sea Circuit”), from Middle Chinese 北海 (pək-hʌi˧˥, “Northern sea”) + 道 (dáu, “Circuit”, a province-like administrative unit from Tang dynasty China).

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[…] Hokkaidos or Ainus (smaller versions of the Akita); Akitas, Japanese Spitz, Japanese Chin, Nippon Terriers and Kai Ken.

1983, Pure-bred Dogs, American Kennel Gazette, page 11:

A breed of dog originating from Japan, resembling a spitz dog breed, although not officially ranked as a spitz dog breed.


Shikoku

From Japanese 四国 (しこく, Shikoku, “four provinces”), from Middle Chinese 四 (sìj, “four”) + 國 (kwok, “state”, “country”).
(dog): < Japanese 四国犬 (shikoku-inu, “Shikoku dog”), named after the island where they originated.


Shikoku

A dog of a particular breed of Japanese origin.


Keeshond

en-noun

Keeshond (plural Keeshonden or Keeshonds)

Keeshonden (plural)
Keeshonds (plural)
keeshond (alternative)

A spitz bred in the Netherlands and Germany, characterized by a fluffy coat of silver and black fur.


dropper

A dog which suddenly drops upon the ground when it sights game.

(Australia) A batten fixed to a post-and-wire fence to keep the wires apart.


malamute

So called because the dogs were bred by the Malamute people of western Alaska. The people's name derives from Inupiaq malimiut.

An ancient northern breed of dog of the husky type, particularly used as a sled dog.


merrigan

1980, P. Pepper, You Are What You Make Yourself
’Course, they had the merrigarn with them—that’s their dingo.

1993, J. Janson, Gunjies
Merrigans barkin’.


sled dog

sled dogs (plural)
sled-dog (alternative)
sleddog (alternative)

Any dog, such as a husky, that pulls a sled as part of a team.


bernard

Shortened form of Saint Bernard (the dog).


cocker

From cock (“a male bird, especially a rooster”) and its derivative cocking (“the hunting of gamecocks”), + -er (occupational suffix) or + -er (agent noun suffix).

(colloquial) A cocker spaniel, either of two breeds of dogs originally bred for hunting woodcocks.


Golden Retriever

Golden Retriever (plural Golden Retrievers)

Golden Retrievers (plural)
golden retriever (alternative)


Azawakh

A sighthound bred in Western Africa around Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso.


warrigal

warrigals (plural)
warragal (alternative)
warragle (alternative)
warragul (alternative)


bobtail

a bobtail flush

(poker, often attributive) An open-ended straight or four flush.


black and tan

black and tan (countable and uncountable, plural black and tans)

black and tans (plural)
black-and-tan (alternative)

(countable) Any of various breeds of dog having black and tan colouring.


tosa

From Japanese 土佐 (Tosa), according to the former Tosa province on the island of Shikoku where the dog was originally bred.


pye

(zoology) Ellipsis of pye-dog (“an Indian breed, a stray dog in Indian contexts”).


Siberian Husky

Siberian Husky (plural Siberian Huskies)

(zoology) A medium-sized spitz breed of dog originally used for herding reindeer and pulling sleighs.


pit bull terrier

pit bull terrier (plural pit bull terriers)

pit bull terriers (plural)
pitbull terrier (alternative)

A medium-sized dog historically bred for dogfighting.


Rover

desctree

→ Polish: rower
→ Belarusian: ро́вар (róvar)
→ Ukrainian: ро́вер (róver)
→ Yiddish: ראָווער (rover)

Thor jumped off the sledge to undo the gate, and as we merrily drove up to the door we were met by the boisterous welcome of old Rover, who in his frantic joy at hearing my voice almost broke his chain in trying to rush at me.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 18:


Yorkshire Terrier

en-noun

Yorkshire Terrier (plural Yorkshire Terriers)

/ˈjɔː(ɹ)kʃɪə(ɹ)ˈtɛɹɪə(ɹ)/

A breed of toy dog having a long, glossy coat.


Dobermann Pinscher

Dobermann Pinscher (plural Dobermann Pinschers)

Dobermann Pinschers (plural)
Dobermann (alternative)


toy dog

(cynology) Any of several breeds of small dogs, kept as pets.


Shetland sheepdog

Shetland sheepdog (plural Shetland sheepdogs)

(zoology) A breed of small sheepdogs, originally from the Shetland Islands.


Sheltie

Shelties (plural)
sholtie (alternative)
sheltie (alternative)
Shelty (alternative)
shelty (alternative)

Probably ultimately representing Old Norse Hjalti (“Shetlander”).


bluey

bluey (countable and uncountable, plural blueys)

‘Doc’ […] shouldered his bluey and whistled up his lame fox-terrier before formally wishing them all well.

1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 318:

(Australia) A collection of clothes and other belongings rolled up into a bundle for carrying; a swag.

(Australia) A blue cattle dog, especially a blue heeler.

He confessed: "You'd have to do a 'bluey' with her. It's one of those situations you think, 'I'm not risking it'. With really good-looking girls, the pressure's on."

2010 December 19, Daniel Sperling, “Cardle 'too nervous' to sleep with Rihanna”, in Digital Spy:

(chiefly UK) Synonym of blue pill (“pill of Viagra”).


Cerberus

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From Latin Cerberus, from Ancient Greek Κέρβερος (Kérberos), of unknown origin.

(Greek mythology) The giant three-headed dog who guards the entrance to Hades; and one of the many offspring of Echidna and Typhon.


houndstooth

From hound + -s- + tooth, from its appearance.
Although the pattern itself is archaeologically found from time immemorial, the modern term is first attested in 1936.

Their ties were tidier, their houndsteeth toothier … they ended up looking more Windsorian than Windsor.

1970, Men's Wear, volume 161, New York, N.Y.: Fairchild Publications, →OCLC, page 73, column 1:

Her dress is wool too, brown and black houndsteeth that belonged to her mother.

2014, Jacinda Townsend, “Jupiter”, in Saint Monkey: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 68:

Fabric with a houndstooth pattern; an item of clothing made with such fabric.


Rottweiler

Borrowed from German Rottweiler, from German Rottweil.

A very large muscular breed of dog of German origin with black fur and tanned markings.


schipperke

From Belgian Dutch (Flemish), but unclear at the word level.
* Conventionally taken to be schipper (“skipper”) + -ke (“diminutive suffix”), allegedly alluding to a role as watchdog and/or rodent catcher on canal boats.
* Alternatively, a mutation of scheperke, a diminutive of scheper (“shepherd, sheepdog”), referring to the breed's purported descent from an extinct larger breed of sheepdogs.
Related to the etymological debate is a longstanding informal one about whether the dog itself should be regarded as a spitz or a miniature sheepdog.
For more, see Schipperke § History on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

pedia

(zoology) A small breed of dog developed in Belgium, sometimes used as a watchdog on boats.


aspin

Borrowed from Tagalog aspin, a blend of aso + Pinoy, suggested by the Philippine Animal Welfare Society as an alternative to askal.

(Philippines) A variety of mongrel dog breed in the Philippines.


ridgeback

Any of three breeds of dog with a distinctive ridge of hair that runs against the grain of the rest of the coat along the spine: the Rhodesian Ridgeback, the Phu Quoc Ridgeback and the Thai Ridgeback.


man's best friend

Refers to the millennia-long history of close relations, loyalty, friendship, and companionship of dogs with humans.

An affectionate term for a dog, or dogs in general.


sausage dog

A draught excluder in the shape of a dog.


King Charles spaniel

en-noun

King Charles spaniel (plural King Charles spaniels)

First brought into notice by King Charles II.

A breed of toy dog originating from England.


pittie

pittie (countable and uncountable, plural pitties)

I was used to slammed doors, rumbling buses, shouting, snarling pitties, police sirens, […]

2012, Marta Acosta, Dark Companion, page 33:

Maybe he'd want a signal from me that he should rush to the carrier and retrieve a pittie on his own— a small one, alive, our new class pet.

2014, Ellen Cooney, The Mountaintop School for Dogs and Other Second Chances, page 247:

Lori and I rescued a pittie from a local rescue organization and our lives have never been the same.

2015 August, Sara Ernest, “Love in Rescue”, in Quorum, page 6:

(informal, endearing) A pit bull terrier.


latrant

From Latin lātrans (“barking, ranting”), present participle of lātrāre (“to bark, to rant”). Equivalent to latrate + -ant.

Thus—All triangles are all trilaterals. 2°, It may designate a class considered as undivided, though not positively thought as taken in its whole extent; and this may be articulately denoted by (:.). Thus—The triangle is the trilateral;—The dog is the latrant.— (Here note the use of the definite article in English, Greek, French, German,^α &c.)

1860, William Hamilton, “Appendix”, in H[enry] L[ongueville] Mansel and John Veitch, editors, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic […], volume IV, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 279:

(rare, obsolete) One who is barking, a dog, (figurative) a complainer.


Mexican hairless

Mexican hairless (plural Mexican hairlesses)

Mexican hairlesses (plural)
Mexican Hairless (alternative)


Schnoodle

Schnoodles (plural)
schnoodle (alternative)

Now there are dozens of mixes, most of which are a poodle blend. There is the goldendoodle, labradoodle, maltipoo, schnoodle, shihpoo, and the puggle, a mix of a pug and a beagle.

2007, Earl Mindell, Elizabeth Renaghan, Dr. Earl Mindell’s Nutrition and Health for Dogs, Basic Health Publications, Inc., →ISBN, page 117:

Puggles, poogles and schnoodles. Schnockers, dorkies and doodles. Dog lovers have hundreds of breeds to pick from when selecting a new family pet, and crossbreeds, sometimes called hybrids or designer dogs, offer unusual choices.

2008 March 30, Brenda Showalter, “Designer dog breeds collar attention”, in The Republic, Columbus, Ind., page C1:

A dog that is a hybrid between a poodle and a schnauzer.


merry cocker

In fact the modern human beater — the fustian-clad yokel, with a long and stout stick and a stentorian cry of "Cock ! cock ! cock !" — has very long ago pretty well ousted the merry cockers or the more staid Clumber for driving the coverts; certainly an innovation not at all a desirable one.

1897, Rawdon Briggs Lee, A History and Description of the Modern Dogs of Great Britain and Ireland, page 227:

The merry Cocker now is one of the most popular of breeds.

1931 February 8, “Garden Dog Show to Start Tuesday”, in New York Times:

Again, the merry cocker is coming back.

1967 September 1, Fresno Bee, The, Fresno, California:


Airedale Terrier

Airedale Terrier (plural Airedale Terriers)


whippador

A dog that is a cross between a whippet and a Labrador retriever.


spokesdog

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-spokesdog.wav

By analogy to spokeswoman, spokesperson, etc., formed with dog.

2008 January 19, Peter Sagal (host), Wait, Wait...Don’t Tell Me!, National Public Radio
The scientists were thrilled, but a spokesdog for the dog community said the program was inadequate.


miniature poodle

miniature poodle (plural miniature poodles)

a small poodle between 11-15 inches (28-38 cm)


standard poodle

standard poodle (plural standard poodles)

A relatively large poodle, measuring more than 15 inches (38 cm).


latrate

en-verb

latrate (third-person singular simple present latrates, present participle latrating, simple past and past participle latrated)

latrates (present singular third-person)
latrating (participle present)
latrated (participle past)
latrated (past)

From Latin lātrātus (“barked”) taken as a verb via English -ate, from Latin lātrāre (“to bark”). Compare Spanish ladrar (“to bark”). First attested in 1623, originally seemingly as a ghost word.

Latrate, to barke like a dog.

[1623, Henry Cockeram, The English Dictionarie Of 1623, New York: Huntington Press, published 1930, s.v., page 110:

I once saw a big dog plunging out furiously at a passing car, and, as I watched him, his gait looked peculiar. The reason for this eccentricity became clear when he returned from his latrating orgy: he had only three legs.

1928, Charles Hall Grandgent, Prunes and Prism: With Other Odds and Ends, page 145:

[…] Rip ought to know there wasn’t a beggar’s chance of catching one of the birds; all the silly, latrating dogs thus showed off.

1931, Harry Kemp, Love Among the Cape Enders, page 91:

With everything boiling over; with everyone rapping, yakking or latrating, it would restore dignity to a number of America’s newspapers if the objectivity of their reporting would harden in direct proportion to the subjectivity of the story being reported.

1972, Max Wylie, 400 Miles from Harlem: Courts, Crime, and Correction, page 201:


basenji

Dogs – records from 137 cases were reviewed. The majority were male, with breeds including basenji, boerboel, German shepherd, labrador retriever, local, maltese and pitbull.

2024, Steven Kakooza, Wilfred Eneku, Esther Nabatta, Eddie M Wampande, Paul Ssajjakambwe, et al., “Integrating multi-wet laboratory diagnostics to study staphylococci in animals in Uganda”, in BMC Microbiology, volume 24, →DOI, page 7:

Alternative letter-case form of Basenji.


Australian cattle dog

en-noun

Australian cattle dog (plural Australian cattle dogs)

A breed of herding dog bred in Australia for controlling cattle; varieties include the Queensland heeler, blue heeler and red heeler.


badgerer

And when the second-best ambition of his life arrived by coach — that notable dog, "Pablo" — if Christopher could have sniffed lightest scent of Beckley, or Shotover, in the black dog- winkles of his nostrils, the odds are ten to one that Oxford never would have sighed (as all through the October term she did) at the loss of her finest badgerer.

1883, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Cripps, the Carrier: A Woodland Tale, publ. S. Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, pg. 417


toller

Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever#English

Clipping of Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever.


ankle-biter

(slang) A small dog, especially a poorly-behaved one.


yellow dog

yellow dogs (plural)
Yellow Dog (alternative)
yaller dog (alternative)
yallar dog (alternative)

Carolina dogs were called yellow dogs because many had yellow coats. The fact that many mongrel dogs also had yellow coats lead to the term's application to any worthless item or person. For the etymology of the term Yellow Dog Democrat, see that entry.

(US, especially Southern US) A Carolina dog.


rescue dog

(chiefly British) A homeless, lost or abandoned dog which has been, or will be, rehomed by an animal rescue centre or charity; a rescued dog.


shelter dog

(US) A dog temporarily resident in or obtained from an animal shelter.


lurcher

From lurch + -er. See lurch (“to lurk, lie in wait”).

(obsolete) One who lurks or lies in wait; one who watches in order to rob or betray; a poacher.

“Since we are both obsessed with our dogs” — Ms. Muir has a whippet; Ms. Osborne, a lurcher — “we thought we’d try pets,” she said.

2009 February 5, Penelope Green, “New Book Offers Knitted Projects for Pets”, in New York Times:

A type of crossbreed dog ― a cross between a sighthound and any other breed or the offspring of such crosses.


lurcher

From Latin lurco, lurcho (“a glutton”). See lurch.

Is not loue a lurcher, that taketh mens stomacks away that they cannot eate, their Spleen that they cannot laugh


Vizsla

Vizsla (plural Vizslas or Vizslak or Vizslák)

Vizslas (plural)
Vizslak (plural)
Vizslák (plural)

From Hungarian vizsla, itself probably a borrowing from a Slavic language; compare Serbo-Croatian vižao/вижао, Czech vyžle, Polish wyżeł, wyga (“old dog”), Russian выжла (vyžla).

A bird dog, according to David Smith of the National Bird Dog Museum, can include such breeds as the English pointer and setter, the American Brittany, the German short-haired pointer and the vizsla.

2008 February 24, William Safire, “Bird-Dog Minute”, in New York Times:


Saluki

From Arabic سَلُوقِيّ (salūqiyy). Doublet of sloughi.

An ancient sighthound breed of dog with a silky coat originating in the Middle East, once sacred to the Egyptians.


bichon

Any of a class of toy dogs with curly or wavy hair and long curled tails.


Doberman Pinscher

Doberman Pinscher (plural Doberman Pinschers)

Doberman Pinschers (plural)
Dobermann Pinscher (alternative)

A large, domestic breed of dog originally bred as a watchdog, kept mainly as pets in modern times.


Komondor

Komondor (plural Komondors or Komondorok)

The coat of the Komondor is extraordinarily profuse and generally matted into a veritable fleece of extreme density.

1948, Brian Seymour Vesey-FitzGerald, The Book of the Dog, page 551:

In 1981 there were 36 known ranchers in North Dakota that had 52 Great Pyrenees (44 working and 8 training) and 2 working Komondor dogs.

1982, Proceedings - Vertebrate Pest Conference, page 56:

For example, the Komondor has a naturally long white coat of matted hair while a Labrador Retriever has short hair that can be sand colored, black or brown.

2010, Barry Eaton, Dominance in Dogs: Fact Or Fiction?, unnumbered page:

A large Hungarian breed of livestock guard dog with a long, corded coat.


Bergamasco

Bergamasco (plural Bergamascos or Bergamaschi)

Bergamascos (plural)
Bergamaschi (plural)

A medium-sized breed of herding dog originating in the Italian Alps, known for its heavily matted coat resembling dreadlocks.


Lithuanian Hound

Lithuanian Hound (plural Lithuanian Hounds)

A large, powerful scenthound originating in Lithuania.


American Bulldog

American Bulldog (plural American Bulldogs)


Alaskan Malamute

Alaskan Malamute (plural Alaskan Malamutes)

(zoology) A relatively large breed of sled dog, sometimes mistaken for the Siberian Husky.

阿拉斯加馬拉穆 /阿拉斯加马拉穆

Ālāsījiā mǎlāmù


Bullmastiff

Bullmastiffs (plural)
bullmastiff (alternative)

A breed of very large mastiff originally bred to immobilize poachers.


Basenji

From Lingala mbwá na basɛ́nzi (“dogs of the savages; dogs of the villagers”). First use appears c. 1906.

der

(zoology) A hunting dog (for aiding human hunters) of a particular African breed.


Kuvasz

From Hungarian kuvasz (“Kuvasz”), from Turkish kavas (“guard”). Attested in English from 1935.

A large, usually white breed of dog with its ancient origins in Hungary.


barbet

→ Irish: bairbéad

From French barbe (“beard; long hair of certain animals”).

bor

A dog of a small-bodied breed with long curly hair.


Hungarian Kuvasz

en-noun

Hungarian Kuvasz (plural Hungarian Kuvasz or Hungarian Kuvaszok)

Hungarian Kuvasz (plural)
Hungarian Kuvaszok (plural)


Spanish Water Dog

Spanish Water Dog (plural Spanish Water Dogs)

/ˌspænɪʃ ˈwɔːtə dɒɡ/

/ˌspænɪʃ ˈwɔtɚ dɔɡ/

A herding water dog originating in Spain.


Bichon Frisé

Bichons Frisés (plural)
Bichon Frise (alternative)

From French bichon (à poil) frisé (lapdog with curly hair).

A small bichon with white fur and dark eyes and nose, originating in Spain, Belgium and France.


shar-pei

shar-peis (plural)
Shar-Pei (alternative)
Shar-pei (alternative)

Borrowed from Cantonese 沙皮 (saa¹ pei⁴, “sandpapery skin”), when the initial of the first syllable was still [ɕ] during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

bor

A dog of a distinctive breed with deep wrinkles, especially when young, a blue-black tongue, and a rough short coat.


beardy

Beardies grow fast. They grow like a weed and can be as unsightly as one.

1996, Andrew De Prisco, James Burris Johnson, Choosing a Dog for Life, page 73:

Beardies take two to three years to mature, so be prepared for typical puppy activity during this time.

2005, Don Burke, The Complete Burke's Backyard: The Ultimate Book of Fact Sheets, page 754:

(informal) A bearded person or animal:
A bearded collie.


Shiba Inu

/ˌʃiːbə ˈiːnuː/

Even Dogecoin, a cryptocurrency that began as a joke with a perpetually surprised Shiba Inu dog for its symbol, has soared almost 1,000 percent over the last week to set a record.

2021 February 8, Nathaniel Popper, “Elon Musk and Snoop Dogg Push Cryptocurrencies to Record Highs”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

A dog of a small, agile Japanese breed originally used for hunting.


goldie

Incredibly, the reactions of the dogs differed between the instances. […] "It's the pursed lips that do it for me," said another comment: "My goldie used to do the same."

2022 July 5, Alice Gibbs, “Golden Retriever's Reaction to Missing Snack Time Delights Internet”, in Newsweek:

Something which is golden in color.
(informal) A Golden Retriever.

Something which is golden in color.
A Golden Retriever.


Akita

Borrowed from Japanese 秋(あき)田(た) (Akita).

The capital city of Akita Prefecture, Japan.


dogkind

One question remains for dogkind to ponder. Why on earth did Dog domesticate the man? The advantages are obvious: heated shelters and constant food supply...

1948, The Arizona quarterly, University of Arizona:


turnspit

c. 1723, William Meston, The Knight
Sometimes, like turnspit cur, he reels,
Sweating in his mysterious wheels;
And by his motion, tho' he fancies
That higher up he still advances,
Yet, press'd down with his nat'ral weight,
After much toiling, still the Knight
Is found to be in the same place
Where first he did begin his race;
And has done less, for all his boasting,
Than turnspit dog the goose when roasting.


kyoodle

The yelps and kyoodles had wandered home or after Rube and his idolators — all except the Widow Steger's dog, a long, strange, German sort of dog with no legs to speak of, a lonesome boyless kyoodle that had to go home early and sleep under the geranium box.

1912, Charles Tenney Jackson, The Midlanders, page 34:

For all the breeds and breeding on display at this most elegant of kyoodle carnivals, there is a wonderful sameness about people who go to the dogs.

2013, Red Smith, Daniel Okrent, American Pastimes: The Very Best of Red Smith, →ISBN:

Among other dodges that we employed to track down the border crossers, was a pack of hounds. These kyoodles worked fairly well if we put them on a track immediately after a rain, otherwise the sand was so barren of moisture it would not hold the scent for any length of time.

2015, Jim Casada, The Expert's Guide to Handgun Marksmanship, →ISBN:

A mutt, dog of mixed breed of little value; noisy dog.


Japanese spitz

en-noun

Japanese spitz (plural Japanese spitzes)

(zoology) A small breed of dog from Japan, having a somewhat square body, deep chest, and very thick, pure white double coat.


dogman

From dog (“the domesticated mammal Canis familiaris or Canis lupus familiaris”) + -man (suffix denoting someone (possibly implied male) who is an expert in an area, who is employed or holds a position in an area, or who takes part in an activity) or man (senses 2 and 3).

suffix

Every one of those dogmen has been either cajoled, bribed, or commanded by his own particular Circe to take the dear household pet out for an airing.

1899–1910, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Ulysses and the Dogman”, in Sixes and Sevens, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1911, →OCLC, page 64:

A dogman, he [John Moore] said, likes having tails wagged at him, wants to be looked up to, and tends for that reason to be quite a good leader. A catman, on the other hand, is made slightly uncomfortable by spaniel eyes and devoted tail thumpings. Dogmen seem to prefer the outdoors, adventure, jungles, deserts, and are attracted by the army. Little is heard of cats in army officers' messes or barracks.

1968, John Montgomery, “Are You a Catman?”, in The World of Cats, London, New York, N.Y.: Hamlyn Publishing Group, published 1970, →ISBN, page 11, column 1:

It is an error of modern dog men to wean puppies too soon—they should run with the bitch till six weeks old, being at the same time fed.

1893, Hugh Dalziel, Alexander C. Piesse, “FEEDING”, in The Diseases of Dogs: Their Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment. […], 4th edition, London: L. Upcott Gill, […], published 1905, →OCLC, page 12:

Abscess of the Jaw.— […] The system will require good support, and, it may be, a course of tonics, such as a grain or two of quinine, night and morning, in the form of a pill; or, using one of the Condition Pills you see advertised in this book—Clayton's, Dent's or Sergeant's—they are all good, made by dogmen for dogs, and you won't go amiss in using either of them in such cases.

1902, “TEETH”, in Al[vin] G[eorge] Eberhart, editor, Everything about Dogs […], 2nd edition, Camp Dennison, Oh.: The Eberhart Kennels, →OCLC, page 112:

Dogfights are most commonly staged in secluded rural areas such as barns or fields. […] When a contract is drawn up for a fight, the participants decide on a central location. They then contact a dogman in that area to make arrangements to have the fight at a location that he provides. […] On the day of the fight the participants and the spectators, usually members of the fraternity, which tends to be almost exclusively male, meet at a dogman’s house near the location where the fight will take place. […] This gathering of the fraternity before the event is a very important element of the dogmen subculture.

2001, Rhonda D. Evans, Craig J. Forsyth, “The World of Dogfighting”, in Alex Thio, Thomas C. Calhoun, editors, Readings in Deviant Behavior, 2nd edition, Needham Heights, Mass.: Allyn and Bacon, →ISBN, part 11 (Deviant Sports), page 333:

A man who has charge of dogs, such as a dog breeder or dog trainer; specifically, a man who trains dogs for the bloodsport of dogfighting.

koiramies

man who has charge of dogs; specifically, a man who trains dogs for the bloodsport of dogfighting


Xoloitzcuintli

Xoloitzcuintli (plural)
Xoloitzcuintle (alternative)

Through Spanish from Classical Nahuatl xoloitzcuintli (literally “dog of Xolotl”).

uder

Whoever has petted a hairless dog will verify that these wrinkles are produced by a lack of hair, especially among the pups of the xoloitzcuintli.

1991, Guillermo García Oropeza, Perros en las tumbas de Colima:

The Mexican xoloitzcuintli (or xolo) is a likely GFP K-9 breed (fig. 77).

2005, Eduardo Kac, Telepresence and bio art: networking humans, rabbits, and robots:

Owing to its hairless condition, the xoloitzcuintli visibly perspires...

2005, Kent V Flannery, Joyce Marcus, Excavations at San José Mogote 1: the household archaeology:


askal

From Tagalog askal, a blend of aso (“dog”) + kalye (“street”).

Two askals in a fuck-lock at the foot of the steps to St. Joseph, standing side by side as if they just happened to stand side by side.

2002, Ricardo M. de Ungria, “Sagada”, in Ramon Sunico, editor, Love Gathers All: The Philippines-Singapore Anthology of Love Poetry, Manila: Anvil Publishing; Singapore: Ethos Books, →ISBN, page 136:

Figaro, the pup with long white hair like a sheep dog, was deeply asleep. Fabio, his dark-colored twin that looked like an ordinary askal, lapped softly and gratefully at my hand.

2008, Sassa Ramos, “A Cold Wind”, in Bing Ramos, editor, True Philippine Ghost Stories, volume 23, Quezon City: PSICOM Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 75:

Humans can be seen in the process of diversification as they span differentials from the dark to the white race, which is part of a natural law that distinguishes a bulldog from an askal.

2021, Kristian Joseph Factora, “Life”, in The Tech Diary: From Stone to Smartphone, chapter II (Evolution), page 97:

They had three ferocious dogs, also askals, who were notorious for chasing after people who passed by the house.

2023, Bong Serrano, “All Dogs Go to Heaven”, in Batangas: My Sky and Earth: An Intimate Recollection and Reflection of My Childhood in the Philippines, Altona, Man.: FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 312:

A variety of mongrel free-ranging dog found in the Philippines.


Staffie

(informal) A Staffordshire bull terrier.


Bulgarian Hound

en-noun

Bulgarian Hound (plural Bulgarian Hounds)

A breed of scenthound originating in Bulgaria.


Basque Shepherd Dog

Basque Shepherd Dog (plural Basque Shepherd Dogs)

A herding dog bred in the Basque regions of northern Spain and southern France.


Xolo

Clipping of Xoloitzcuintli (“Mexican hairless dog”).


Puli

Pulik (plural)
Pulis (plural)
Puli (plural)


Slovak Cuvac

Slovak Cuvac (canonical)
Slovensky Cuvac (canonical)

livestock guardian dog
livestock guardian dog

A livestock guardian dog bred in Slovakia.


Croatian Sheepdog

Croatian Sheepdog (plural Croatian Sheepdogs)


Icelandic Sheepdog

Icelandic Sheepdog (plural Icelandic Sheepdogs)


Rhodesian Ridgeback

Rhodesian Ridgeback (plural Rhodesian Ridgebacks)

Named for the ridge of hair along the spine that grows toward the dog's front.

The house is still there […] . And guarded by a pair of Rhodesian ridgebacks.

2004, Nicholas Shakespeare, In Tasmania, Harvill Press, p. 117

A dog of a kind bred in southern Africa to hunt lions.


Afghan Hound

Afghan Hounds (plural)
Afghan hound (alternative)

A sighthound bred in Afghanistan to hunt hare and gazelle.


Beauceron

/ˈbəʊsəˌɹɒn/

/ˈboʊsəˌɹɑn/

A large dog bred in Northern France for herding and guarding.


Chinese Crested Dog

Chinese Crested Dog (plural Chinese Crested Dogs)

Named for the crest of hair on the top of the head and ears.

A toy dog that resembles a long-snouted Chihuahua with tufts of hair about the head and ears, tail and feet.


Spinone Italiano

Spinone Italiano (plural Spinoni Italiani)

A versatile pointing gun dog bred in Italy.


Thai Ridgeback

A sighthound bred in what is now Thailand.


Petit Basset Griffon Vendéen

Petit Basset Griffon Vendéen (plural Petits Bassets Griffons Vendéens)

Petits Bassets Griffons Vendéens (plural)
PBGV (alternative)


Irish wolfhound

Irish wolfhound (plural Irish wolfhounds)

The Irish wolfhound is the official mascot of The Irish Guards and The Royal Irish Regiment.

The largest sighthound and tallest dog on average, bred in Ireland to hunt wolves


Affenpinscher

A breed of toy dog bred in Western Europe.


Cirneco dell'Etna

Cirneco dell'Etna (plural Cirnechi dell'Etna)


Belgian Sheepdog

Belgian Sheepdog (plural Belgian Sheepdogs)

Belgian Shepherd Dog

umbrella term for the four "Belgian Shepherds"

One of four variants of sheep herding dog bred in Belgium.

белгийска овчарка

Umbrella term for the four Belgian sheepdog variants


Belgian Groenendael

The long-haired black variant of the Belgian Sheepdog.


Belgian Laekenois

One of four variants of the Belgian Sheepdog.


Tibetan Mastiff

Tibetan Mastiff (plural Tibetan Mastiffs)

A large dog of a breed from Central Asia, having a medium to long double coat in a wide variety of colors, sometimes with white markings around neck, chest, and legs.


wheel dog

(mushing) One of the dogs positioned directly in front of the sled that absorbs most of the force during the sled's movement.


swing dog

(mushing) One of the dogs directly behind the lead dogs, who help set the pace.


lead dog

(mushing) one of the dogs at the front of the team, who set the pace.


Scottish Deerhound

Scottish Deerhound (plural Scottish Deerhounds)

A large sighthound bred in Scotland to hunt deer.


wiener dog

wiener dogs (plural)
weiner dog (alternative misspelling)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-wiener dog.wav

(informal, sometimes humorous) Synonym of dachshund (a dog breed)


talbot

Lumen second
Talbot (disambiguation)
Talbot (dog)

A type of hound with broad mouth and large ears, once used for hunting and tracking.


messet

From the mixture of these, and other breeds, we have messets, lap-dogs, dancers, waps, mongrels, and an endless number of varieties and compounds for which it is difficult to find a name.

1806, John Bigland, Letters on Natural History:

(UK, dialect, obsolete) A dog, especially one as a pet.


chiengora

Blend of French chien (“dog”) and angora.


Rin Tin Tin

From the name of a good-luck charm that French children often gave to American soldiers.

A name given to several related fictional German Shepherd dogs, particularly from the 1920s and the 1930s.


Scooby-Doo

Scooby-Doos (plural)
Scooby Doo (alternative)

Frank Sinatra
Scooby-Doo
Strangers in the Night

Uncertain. scooby doo appears as a vocable scatted in "The Boppenpoof Song" written in 1954, as the name of a band (The Scooby-Doo All-Stars) in 1956 and the title of a song by the Jerry Lieber Beat Band published by Zephyr Records in 1959 (both of which were signed to Zephyr Records). It is likely that such uses were an influence on the creators of the cartoon but they may also have been partially influenced by Frank Sinatra's "doo-be-doo-be-doo" improvisation in "Strangers in the Night" released in 1963 a few months prior to the first episode of Scooby-Doo being shown (also in 1963).

I knew I had to be very careful when I was crafting the story, so that it wouldn't be a Scooby Doo moment—you know, the one where the villain rips off his mask and tells you why he did it—and that he would have gotten away with it, if not for those pesky kids!

2007, Jodi Picoult, "Reader's Companion" (Washington Square Press) to the author's Plain Truth (Simon and Schuster, 2000) p.414

A mile out of town, off the Combe Martin road, discover a real Scooby Doo experience at Chambercombe Manor. It's shrouded in ghost stories and has starred in TV shows about the paranormal.

2008, Simon Heptinstall, Devon (Crimson Publishing) page 137

It was a Scooby-Doo moment: everybody looks down, everybody looks up. Maddy looks surprised. Pat looks guilty. Oh, those meddlesome kids.

2010, J. Wachowski, In Plain View, Carina Press, page 314:

"I love the Scooby-Doo of it all." And it was fun, combing through old books and papers for recognizable names.

2010, Buzzy Jackson, Shaking the Family Tree: Blue Bloods, Black Sheep, and Other Obsessions of an Accidental Genealogist, Simon and Schuster, page 171:

An American cartoon franchise, named for one of the main characters, a large dog, and featuring as protagonists four "meddling" teenagers who unravel seemingly supernatural mysteries.

2006, Sue Owens Wright, How to Determine If Your Dog Is an Einstein—and What to Do If He's a Scooby Doo:

And trying to sell him on carrots when he's yearning for Scooby-Doos poses a challenge similar to selling George W. Bush on tax increases.

2007, Judith Viorst, Alexander and the Wonderful, Marvelous, Excellent, Terrific Ninety Days, Simon and Schuster, page 28:

It was like she was talking to me. Not barking, not growling. More of a Scooby Doo sort of thing.

2008, Gabriella Herkert, Doggone: An Animal Instinct Mystery, Penguin, page 17:

Zack chose to work with “Ronald Reagan,” which is very Zack; at one point I think he almost convinced Ronald to speak in a Scooby-Doo accent.

2009, Douglas Coupland, Generation A, Simon and Schuster, page 76:

The cartoon dog from that cartoon, noted for his trouble-causing lack of sense and almost understandable vocalization.


Scooby-Doo

It was past ten o'clock at night and I hadn’t a Scooby-Doo where I was. After a tough twelve-hour day in the saddle, cycling more than 130 miles through rain, wind and sleet, I was tired, soaked through and miserable.

2016, Chris Graham, Five Minutes of Amazing: My Journey Through Dementia, London: Sphere, →ISBN, page 1:


drever

A short-legged scenthound of a Swedish breed.


doggess

The sound even called back the departing senses of the dying doggess. She drew me to her with her paws, and made an effort to lick me. The action quite melted me.

1856, Pictures of Comical People, with Stories about Them, page 158:


Swedish Vallhund

Swedish Vallhund (plural Swedish Vallhunds)

From Swedish + Swedish vallhund (“herding dog”), from valla (“herd”) + hund (“dog”).

A dog of a small, powerful breed associated with the Vikings.


pibble

In many ways, one-year-old Posey is just an average "pibble."

2015 October 7, Elizabeth Medora, “Posey: The Little Pibble That Can”, in The Foothills Focus, page 10:

Meet Jax! He is a sweet, wiggly pibble.

2017 November 23, “Adopt me!”, in Inlander, page 93:

Our Liz jumps with all her feet off the floor when we spell w- a- l- k, now with that pibble smile ear to ear.

2019, Suzanne Allard, "Liz Makes a Comeback," 4 Legs & a Tail, Winter 2019, pages 8-9

(informal, endearing) A pit bull terrier.


puppy dog

puppy dogs (plural)
puppy-dog (alternative)
puppydog (alternative)


Weimaraner

/ˈvaɪməɹɑːnəɹ/

A breed of gun dog with an athletic build and short coat.


attack dog

Any dog bred, trained or used for the purpose of attacking a target, either on command or on sight; trained either as a specialized form of police dog or a security force dog.

hyökkäämään koulutettu koira

dog trained to protect or attack targets

A dog used in the bloodsport of dogfighting.

It was, however, as Charles Darwin's alter ego, an attack dog for the theory of evolution, that Huxley gained his greatest notoriety.

2001, Mark Jaffe, The Gilded Dinosaur, page 146:

(figurative) A person who engages in rhetorical attacks on behalf of another.


cynomorphism

This should teach us to bear in mind that there is, affecting the dog's point of view, almost undoubtedly such a thing as cynomorphism, and that he has his peculiar and limited ideas of life and range of mental vision, and therefore perforce makes his artificial surroundings square with them.

1892 December, Louis Robinson, “Canine Morals and Manners”, in The Popular Science Monthly, page 177:

Without anthropomorphism on our part and cynomorphism on the dog's part, it is unlikely that dogs could have been successfully domesticated and eventually come to live in our homes and serve as companions and workmates.

2004, Stanley Coren, How Dogs Think: Understanding the Canine Mind, Free Press, →ISBN, page 290:

Finally, this definition implies the Razor-friendly dualism Nature/Culture, by using a two-way-only approach, from animals to humans and back (zoomorphism), without the pluralistic biosemiotic-friendly suggestion there might be, say, a cynomorphism or at least an icthyomorphism.

2008 December, Dario Martinelli, Kristian Bankov, “Bankov's Razor Versus Martinelli's Canon: A Confrontation Around Biosemiotics”, in Biosemiotics, volume 1, number 3, page 413:

(nonce word) The manner in which a dog sees the world, including the attribution of doglike characteristics to non-canine animals, especially humans.


jowler

Never saw I bloodthirsty fierceness better depicted than in the muzzles o ' thae ferocious Jowlers

(Can we date this quote?), John Wilson (Scottish writer), “Noctes Ambrosianae”, in Blackwood's Magazine:

(archaic) A dog with large jowls, such as the beagle.


bearhound

"For his amusement John the Terrible used to order a number of people to be sewed up in bear-skins, and then torn to death by bear-hounds. For tearing prisoners to pieces he ordered the tops of several trees to be bent down so that they came together; the limbs of the unfortunate victim were fastened to these tops, each limb to a different tree. When they were thus tied up, the release of the trees performed the work intended by the cruel Czar."

1887, Thomas Wallace Knox, The Boy Travellers in the Russian Empire, Chapter 11:

1918, Melville Davisson Post, Uncle Abner: Master of Mysteries, Chapter 5text=There seemed no overt reason, old Clayborne said, but presently Dabney began to act like a man in fear. He made friends with the dog, a big old bearhound. He got a fowling piece and set it up by the head of his bed, and finally took the dog into the room with him at night. He kept out of the house by day.:

A dog used for bearbaiting or bear hunting.


sleuthhound

sleuthhounds (plural)
sleuth-hound (alternative)
slot-hound (alternative)
slothound (alternative)

From Middle English [Term?], from Old Norse slóð (“track”) + hound.

Sometimes he pursued the wily burn trout with relentless ferocity and the silent intentness of a sleuthhound. Often, however, he would pause and with his finger indicate some favourite stone to Winsome.

1894, S. R. Crockett, The Lilac Sunbonnet:

A working dog who tracks or pursues e.g. a wanted criminal; a bloodhound formerly used in Scotland.


coachdog

(dated) The Dalmatian (often used as a coach dog).


bull terrier

bull terriers (plural)
bull-terrier (alternative)
bullterrier (alternative)

A medium-sized dog of a breed that is a cross between bulldog and terrier.


lap dog

lap dogs (plural)
lap-dog (alternative)
lapdog (alternative)

A lady loses her muff, her fan, or her lap-dog, and so the silly poet runs home to versify the disaster.

1766, [Oliver Goldsmith], chapter XVII, in The Vicar of Wakefield: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Salisbury, Wiltshire: […] B. Collins, for F[rancis] Newbery, […], →OCLC:

There might ye ſee the pioney ſpread vvide, / The full-blovvn roſe, the ſhepherd and his laſs, / Lap-dog and lambkin vvith black ſtaring eyes, / And parrots vvith tvvin cherries in their beak.

1785, William Cowper, “Book I. The Sofa.”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], →OCLC, page 3:

Frau von Greifenstein had seated herself in a straw chair with her parasol, her fan and her lap-dog, a little toy terrier which was always suffering from some new and unheard-of nervous complaint.

1889, F. Marion Crawford, chapter 4, in Greifenstein:

Steffi is a tricolor King Charles spaniel, an archetypal lap dog and love sponge, barely a foot high and no more than 10 pounds.

2007 December 1, Harry Hurt III, “Proof That Overscheduled Modern Life Isn’t Fit for a Dog”, in New York Times, retrieved 2011-12-05:

A small toy dog, kept as household pet, whose light weight and companionable temperament make it both suited and disposed to spend time resting in the comfort of its master's lap; a dog bred to behave in this manner.

gos falder

small dog suited to resting in its master's lap


trundletail

trundletails (plural)
trendle-tail (alternative)
trindle-tail (alternative)

15th century, Juliana Berners, Hawking, Hunting, Fouling and Fishing, London: Adam Islip, 1596, “The names of diuers Hounds,”
[…] Trindle tailes, and pricke eared Curres, and small Ladie Puppies, that beare away the fleas and diuers small faults.

Mastiff, greyhound, mongrel grim,
Hound or spaniel, brach or lym,
Bobtail tyke or trundle-tail—
Tom will make them weep and wail;
For, with throwing thus my head,
Dogs leap the hatch, and all are fled.

c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vi]:

Doe you sneere, you dogs-head, you Trendle tayle!

1614 November 10 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), Beniamin Iohnson [i.e., Ben Jonson], Bartholmew Fayre: A Comedie, […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Robert Allot, […], published 1631, →OCLC, Act V, scene ii, page 26:

[…] what did you take me to be? […] a Woodcock amongst birds, […] amongst Cu[r]s a trindle tale,

a. 1639, John Webster, Appius and Virginia, published 1654, Act III, Scene 1:

(obsolete) A dog with a rounded, curled-up tail.


leamer

From French limier, from Old French liemier, from Latin ligamen (“band, bandage”). See lien.


leviner

(obsolete) A type of dog, apparently related to the greyhound and noted for its speed.


latration

From Latin lātrātio, from lātrāre (“to bark”) + -tiō (“-tion: forming abstract nouns”). Equivalent to latrate + -ion.

If a dog bite a pig, the narrative teems with ‘virus’, the ‘rabid animal’, and the ‘latration’ of the patient

1828, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, number 23, page 194:

But for this barrier, the theological Cerberus would find himself turning so few passengers from its gate, that he would soon, himself, weary of his wearisome latrations.

What then must have been the effect upon the eminent philologist of the midnight latrations of Fernando Wood's yellow dog?

1925, Joseph Bucklin Bishop, Notes and anecdotes of many years, page 75:

And rather a latration of yaps and yowls as a harum-scarum of dogs swept past.

(now rare) Barking, an instance of barking.


oblatration

From Latin oblātrātio, from oblātrāre (“to bark at, to rail against”) + -tiō (“-tion: forming abstract nouns”), from ob- (“ob-: against, at”) + lātrāre (“to bark, to rant”). Equivalent to ob- + latration.

February 18 1629, Bishop Joseph Hall, Salvation from an Untoward Generation
The Apostle fears none of these currish oblatrations...

He that feareth oblatration must not travel.

1661, John Stephens, An Historical Discourse..., Prol.

1867, William Gifford (of Leith), Memorials of the life and work of the Rev. William Johnston
You were never a very hot Voluntary, even when some, who are now among the dumb dogs that cannot or will not bark, were keeping up a most violent oblatration...

(obsolete) The act of barking at someone or something; (figuratively) the act of ranting at someone or something; an instance of these.


furbaby

furbabies (plural)
fur baby (alternative)

Mrs. Jackson still kept doggie biscuits in her pockets, even though her furbaby had died two months ago.

2007, Barbara Karmazin, Night Moves, Loose Id, published 2007, →ISBN:

As I took the satiny-furred cat into my arms, his purring ratcheted up a couple of notches. Brian stood looking at the two of us, grinning, then said of the malnourished creature, “I guess we have a furbaby!”

2012, Marion Arnott, “Another One in from the Cold”, in Marie O'Regan, editor, The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories by Women, Constable & Robinson, →ISBN:

He looked down at the puppy fast asleep in his arms. Maybe this furbaby would slow down the ticking of her biological clock, too.

2015, Kallypso Masters, Nobody's Dream, →ISBN:

(informal, endearing) A furry pet considered a child by a human.


dogly

en-adj

dogly (comparative more dogly, superlative most dogly)

more dogly (comparative)
most dogly (superlative)
doggly (alternative)

From Middle English *dogly, *doglich, equivalent dog + -ly. Compare doglike.

I had a little dog who practiced all the dogly virtues. He never tried to get into any chairs or on any couches.

1908, Ernest Hamlin Abbott, Lyman Abbott, Francis Rufus Bellamy, The Outlook:

[Seminole Sam to the Dog:] It ain't dogly to bark "ahem".

1959 June 4, Walt Kelly, Pogo, comic strip, →ISBN, page 47:

If a chicken invades your garden to steal seed and your dog barks at it in the line of dogly duty, the chicken's owner has the legal right to kill your dog.

It was a halfhearted attempt to get him to stop, because truly, I was hoping the dog would do the dogly thing and chew up the Frisbee.

2006, Linda Johns, Hannah West in Deep Water:

Of, like, or pertaining to dogs or the dog family; canine.


dogling

The day she came home to find that our dogling had gone to live permanently with the man who spaded up our back yard it seemed for a time that there was no balm in Gilead.


bitzer

bitzers (plural)
bitsa (alternative)
bitser (alternative)
bitza (alternative)

Unknown. Originally used of dogs. Perhaps from bits + -er, in reference to the dog's composition from multiple different "bits". The spelling with tz may be influenced from other names of breeds (e.g. spitz, shih tzu, etc.) or in imitation of German names. Compare also German Betze (“bitch, female dog”).

(Australia, New Zealand, informal) A mongrel dog.


alaunt

alaunts (plural)
alan (alternative)
alant (alternative)

From Old French alans, alanz, itself from Old Spanish alán, itself possibly from Gothic *𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌽𐍃 (*alans), designating the Alan tribe of Eastern Iranian origin who were active in Western Europe during the Migration Period and were associated with the breed.

The gentle alaunt is built exactly like a greyhound, except that he has a short, thick head.

1917 trans., Yale University, Transactions - The Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, Volume 21, page 133:

The alaunt was considered a reckless animal, and had been known to attack domestic animals, or even its owner.

2007, Robert Low, An Ancient History of Dogs: Spaniels Through the Ages, page 121:

There was a streak through the grass, a fast-moving brindle arrow, rough-haired and uncombed. It struck the flank of the alaunt in midleap ...

2011, Ed Judah, The Lion Wakes, page 65:

A domesticated dog of an extinct breed related to the modern bulldog and mastiff, or modern breeds created in imitation of it.


dog

en-noun

dog (countable and uncountable, plural dogs)

dogs (plural)
darg (alternative dialectal)
dawg (alternative dialectal)
dug (alternative dialectal)
doggie (alternative childish)
doggy (alternative childish)
doggy woggy (alternative childish)
doggo (alternative childish)

Australian Kriol: dog

Bislama: dog

Gullah: dog

Sranan Tongo: dagu

Tok Pisin: dok

Torres Strait Creole: dog

desc

→ American Sign Language: Kop@Inside-PalmForward 1o@Inside

→ Dutch: dog

→ Esperanto: dogo

Ido: dogo

→ French: dogue

→ German: Dogge

→ Italian: dogo

→ English: dogo

→ Portuguese: dogue

→ Russian: дог (dog)

→ Spanish: dogo

→ Volapük: dog, doeg

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.

hond

morally reprehensible person — see also scoundrel

it is easy to find a stick to beat a dog

on the Internet nobody knows you're a dog

the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

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).

1989, John L. Gittleman, Carnivore Behavior, Ecology, and Evolution, page 561:

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


dog-child

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A feral child who lives as a dog, outside human society.

Remove the pan and slice cookies into bars or squares, depending on the mouth size of your dog-child.

1993 December 15, “PICKY DOGS NEED YULE TREATS, TOO”, in The Charlotte Observer:

Never tell my dog-child Vivien that she is not Irish. She says she is Irish and we believe her. Being well-mannered, nicely reared humans, we would never contradict her.

2004 March 13, “Best Irish Blessing Is An Irish Dog”, in Free Lance-Star:

By drawing parallels between child development and dog development, Ms. King allows us, the human parent, to better understand why our "dog-children" do what they do.

2005, The Latham letter, volumes 26-29, Latham Foundation:

[…] more than ever, many of those conversations require me to interject for the sake of clarification: "Wait, are you talking about your human child or your dog child?"

2009 May 21, “Pet parents and the dog children that bite them”, in Deseret News, alt Lake City, UT:

To honor my dog-child, here's a little doggy profile. Feel free to fill it out about your four-legged kid in the comments!

2011 August 26, “Today is National Dog Day”, in Columbus Ledger-Enquirer:

(often humorous) A dog, treated as if a child of the owner.


curtail dog

(obsolete) A dog with a docked tail; formerly, the dog of a person not qualified to course, which, by the forest laws, must have its tail cut short, partly as a mark, and partly from a notion that the tail is necessary to a dog in running.

Hope is a curtail dog in some affairs.

c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

(obsolete, by extension) A dog not fit for sporting.


Welsh Sheepdog

A contraction of the earlier Welsh Sheep Dog

A type of herding dog originating in 20th-century Wales.