caninophile

noun

Etymology

From canine + -o- + -phile.

Definitions

  1. Someone who loves dogs.

    • What was the name of her father, the old banker who made love to his dog and wintered in Portugal – a caninophile, gone in the tooth, gone in the wind?
    • Of course Justice Mariner is something of a caninophile himself, never mind that Stong, his idiot golden retriever, is now in Penny Mariner's sole custody and I am actually the loyal companion animal […]
    • I am as much of a caninophile as the next Englishman. I had a beagle at the time, name of Biggles, and I adored him as if he were my own child, almost.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA