"female dog" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: female dogs [plural]
Etymology: From its original meaning. Head templates: {{en-noun}} female dog (plural female dogs)
  1. (euphemistic) The word bitch. Tags: euphemistic Synonyms: the b-word
    Sense id: en-female_dog-en-noun-YupjtJct Categories (other): English euphemisms
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see female, dog.
    Sense id: en-female_dog-en-noun-v9DjqPhQ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 27 73

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1945, James Street, The Gauntlet, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., page 210",
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          "ref": "2000, Mark McCrum, Castaway: The Full, Inside Story of the Major TV Series, Ebury Press, page 227",
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          "ref": "2010, Clyde R. Forsberg, Jr., Playing It By Ear: The Jazz-Theatre of Clyde R. Forsberg Jr., Xlibris, page 64",
          "text": "You just called her a female dog in heat.",
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          "ref": "2012, Vladimir Voinovich, translated by Andrew Bromfield, A Displaced Person: The Later Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, page 34",
          "text": "And he called her a female dog.",
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          "ref": "2014, Paul Gardiner, A Light in a World of Darkness, Archway Publishing, page 5",
          "text": "Then the blond guy called her a female dog and sat down in his seat.",
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          "ref": "2014, Okisha Jackson, A Successful Failure: The Complete Series",
          "text": "My eyes rolled and called her a female dog.",
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          "ref": "2015, Terrie Farley Moran, Caught Read-Handed, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Prime Crime, page 247",
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          "ref": "2000, Mark McCrum, Castaway: The Full, Inside Story of the Major TV Series, Ebury Press, page 227",
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          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "ref": "2010, Clyde R. Forsberg, Jr., Playing It By Ear: The Jazz-Theatre of Clyde R. Forsberg Jr., Xlibris, page 64",
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          "ref": "2012, Vladimir Voinovich, translated by Andrew Bromfield, A Displaced Person: The Later Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, page 34",
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          "text": "Then the blond guy called her a female dog and sat down in his seat.",
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          "text": "My eyes rolled and called her a female dog.",
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          "type": "quotation"
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          "text": "Perhaps she’d think I called her a female dog.",
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