"dog man" meaning in English

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      "form": "dog men",
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        "plural"
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    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1942, Stephen Benet, The Australian Women's Weekly, page 2",
          "text": "Now. I am not a cat man, but a dog man. Indeed, if I had my way. I would own an English bulldog, which I consider the king of breeds.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 618",
          "text": "Major Anstruther did not care much for cats: he was a dog-man himself.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, Claude Bernardin, Tom Stanton, Rocket Man: Elton John from A-Z, page 30",
          "text": "Elton is a dog man, not a cat man.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Gordon Thorburn, Cassius - The True Story of a Courageous Police Dog",
          "text": "If you were a total dog man like Joe, and a one-man dog like Cass, the relationship developed a mutual dependency, as close as any marriage, of minds and hearts.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, John Verdon, Think of a Number",
          "text": "\"You a dog man or a cat man?\" \"Dog, I guess.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A man who likes dogs or prefers dogs as pets, often as opposed to liking cats."
      ],
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          "man",
          "man"
        ],
        [
          "dogs",
          "dogs"
        ],
        [
          "cats",
          "cats"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "63 37",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "man who likes dogs",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic",
            "informal",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "кучкар"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "63 37",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "man who likes dogs",
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            "Roman",
            "informal",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "kučkar"
        }
      ]
    },
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1966, James Holledge, The Great Australian Gable, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 124",
          "text": "Of course there is a sprinkling of wealthy dog men, but in the main it is working-class hopefuls who supply the fields[.]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A man who breeds, handles, or sells dogs; a greyhound or hunting dog handler."
      ],
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    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "48 52",
      "word": "dog-man"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "48 52",
      "word": "dogman"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dog man"
}

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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
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    "English nouns"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dog men",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1942, Stephen Benet, The Australian Women's Weekly, page 2",
          "text": "Now. I am not a cat man, but a dog man. Indeed, if I had my way. I would own an English bulldog, which I consider the king of breeds.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 618",
          "text": "Major Anstruther did not care much for cats: he was a dog-man himself.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, Claude Bernardin, Tom Stanton, Rocket Man: Elton John from A-Z, page 30",
          "text": "Elton is a dog man, not a cat man.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Gordon Thorburn, Cassius - The True Story of a Courageous Police Dog",
          "text": "If you were a total dog man like Joe, and a one-man dog like Cass, the relationship developed a mutual dependency, as close as any marriage, of minds and hearts.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, John Verdon, Think of a Number",
          "text": "\"You a dog man or a cat man?\" \"Dog, I guess.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A man who likes dogs or prefers dogs as pets, often as opposed to liking cats."
      ],
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        [
          "man",
          "man"
        ],
        [
          "dogs",
          "dogs"
        ],
        [
          "cats",
          "cats"
        ]
      ]
    },
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        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1966, James Holledge, The Great Australian Gable, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 124",
          "text": "Of course there is a sprinkling of wealthy dog men, but in the main it is working-class hopefuls who supply the fields[.]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A man who breeds, handles, or sells dogs; a greyhound or hunting dog handler."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "dog-man"
    },
    {
      "word": "dogman"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "man who likes dogs",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "informal",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "кучкар"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "man who likes dogs",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "informal",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "kučkar"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dog man"
}