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)