Dog

Dog Meanings:

• A quadruped of the genus Canis, esp. the domestic dog (Canis familiaris)
• A mean, worthless fellow; a wretch
• A fellow; -- used humorously or contemptuously; as, a sly dog; a lazy dog
• One of the two constellations, Canis Major and Canis Minor, or the Greater Dog and the Lesser Dog. Canis Major contains the Dog Star (Sirius)
• An iron for holding wood in a fireplace; a firedog; an andiron
• A grappling iron, with a claw or claws, for fastening into wood or other heavy articles, for the purpose of raising or moving them
• an ugly or crude person, especially an ugly woman
• a hot dog
• To hunt or track like a hound; to follow insidiously or indefatigably; to chase with a dog or dogs; to worry, as if by dogs; to hound with importunity
• darg, dawg, dug (dialectal)
• doggie, doggy, doggo (childish)
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /dɒɡ/
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA(key): /dɑɡ/
• A mammal of the family Canidae: The species Canis familiaris (sometimes designated Canis lupus familiaris), domesticated for thousands of years and of highly variable appearance because of human breeding.
• Any member of the family Canidae, including domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, jackals, foxes, and their relatives (extant and extinct); canid.
• (often attributive) A male dog, wolf, or fox, as opposed to a bitch or vixen.
• (uncountable) The meat of this animal, eaten as food.
• A person: (slang, derogatory) A dull, unattractive girl or woman.
• (derogatory) Someone who is cowardly, worthless, or morally reprehensible.
• A mechanical device or support: Any of various mechanical devices for holding, gripping, or fastening something, particularly with a tooth-like projection.
• A click or pallet adapted to engage the teeth of a ratchet wheel, to restrain the back action. Synonyms: click, pallet, pawl, ratchet
• (slang, almost always in the plural) Foot. My dogs are barking! ― My feet hurt!
• (Cockney rhyming slang) (from "dog and bone") Phone or mobile phone.
• (informal) Something that performs poorly. (film) A flop; a film that performs poorly at the box office.
• (animal): taxonomic names: Canis familiaris, Canis domesticus, Canis familiarus domesticus, Canis canis, Canis aegyptius, Canis familiarus aegyptius, Canis melitaeus, Canis familiarus melitaeus, Canis molossus, Canis familiarus molossus, Canis saultor, Canis familiaris saultor
• (animal): domestic dog, hound, canine; see also Thesaurus:dog
• (male): stud, sire
• (meat): dogflesh, dog meat, fragrant meat
• (man): bloke (British), chap (British), dude, fellow, guy, man; see also Thesaurus:man
• (morally reprehensible person): cad, bounder, blackguard, fool, hound, heel, scoundrel
• (mechanical device): click, detent, pawl
• (metal support for logs): andiron, fire dog, dogiron
• (male adult dog): bitch, pup, puppy
• (transitive) To pursue with the intent to catch. Synonyms: chase, chase after, go after, pursue, tag, tail, track, trail
• (transitive) To follow in an annoying or harassing way.
• (transitive, nautical) To fasten a hatch securely.
• (intransitive, emerging usage in Britain) To watch, or participate, in sexual activity in a public place.
• (intransitive, transitive) To intentionally restrict one's productivity as employee; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished. Synonyms: soldier, goldbrick
• (transitive, military) To divide (a watch) with a comrade.
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• Alternative form of dag (preterite of dink)
• (Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang, leetspeak, euphemistic) Alternative form of 鳩／鸠 (gau1)
• (Hong Kong Cantonese) The name of the Latin-script letter D.
• Conveying impressedness, emotional affectation, bewilderment.
• thump, dub (sound of a heartbeat; thumping sound of a person walking on the roof of a house as heard by someone in the house)
• [slang] Not a cat. Gotta love Blackadder.
• [slang] to go behind someone's back
• [slang] a companion, friend, homie
• [slang] Australian slang for police informant.
• [slang] a dog
• [slang] verb: to follow closely behind, or to check (someone) frequently, implies that the action causes some annoyance or interference (from the fact that a pet dog will often follow closely at its master's heels). Similar in some senses to 'hound' as a verb.
• [slang] A domesticated canine that comes in many different breeds. Due to dogs' ancestors growing accustomed to humans over time they have evolved to have bigger brains than other common pets such as cats. Some dog breeds (such as German Shepherds and Border Collies) are very intelligent and are able to have jobs (such as sheep herding or more recently police work and rescue work).
• [slang] precious species which should be protected and treated with love at all times. too pure for this cruel world in which we live in
• [slang] not a cat