dog

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A common four-legged animal often kept as a pet or for work.

   The dog barked all night long.

2. 2
   noun

   A short way of saying "hot dog": a cooked sausage in a long bread roll.

   We grabbed a couple of dogs and sodas at the ballpark.

3. 3
   noun

   A person who behaves in a mean or dishonest way (informal).

   You dirty dog, you lied to me again!

Common collocations

• pet dog Adjective + noun
• feed the dog Verb + noun
• walk the dog Verb + noun
• rescue a dog Verb + noun
• train a dog Verb + noun
• guard dog Adjective + noun
• guide dog Adjective + noun
• stray dog Adjective + noun

Etymology tree Old English [Term?]? Proto-Germanic *-gô Proto-West Germanic *-gō Old English -ga Old English dogga Middle English dogge English dog 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 Englis…

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