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DOG

noun
/dɒɡ/UK/dɔɡ//dɔ(ː)ɡ/CA

Etymology

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 English dox (“dark, swarthy”) (compare frocga from frox). Another proposal is that it derives from Proto-West Germanic *dugan (“to be suitable”), the origin of Old English dugan (“to be good, worthy, useful”), English dow, Dutch deugen, German taugen. The theory goes that it could have been an epithet for dogs, commonly used by children, meaning "good/useful animal". Another is that it is related to *docce (“stock, muscle”), from Proto-West Germanic *dokkā (“round mass, ball, muscle, doll”), whence English dock (“stumpy tail”). In 14th-century England, hound (from Old English hund) was the general word for all domestic canines, and dog referred to a subtype resembling the modern mastiff and bulldog. By the 16th century, dog had become the general word, and hound had begun to refer only to breeds used for hunting. In the 16th century, the word dog was adopted by several continental European languages as their word for mastiff. Despite similarities in forms and meaning, it is not related to Mbabaram dog.

  1. derived from dox — “dark, swarthy”
  2. inherited from dogga
  3. inherited from dogge

Definitions

  1. Initialism of digital on-screen graphic.

  2. Initialism of digitally originated graphic.

  3. A mammal of the family Canidae

    A mammal of the family Canidae:

    • The dog barked all night long.
    • The preposterous altruism too![…]Resist not evil. It is an insane immolation of self—as bad intrinsically as fakirs stabbing themselves or anchorites warping their spines in caves scarcely large enough for a fair-sized dog.
  4. ›+ 25 more definitions

    1. The meat of this animal, eaten as food.

      • Did you know that they eat dog in parts of Asia?

    2. A person

      A person:

      • She’s a real dog.

    3. A mechanical device or support

      A mechanical device or support:

      • Whenever possible, let the tree support the weight of the chainsaw. Pivot the saw, using the saw's dogs (spikes) as a fulcrum.

    4. The eighteenth Lenormand card.

    5. A hot dog

      A hot dog: a frankfurter, wiener, or similar sausage; or a sandwich made from this.

      • Congressmen gleefully wolfed down every imaginable version of the hot dog – smoked kielbasas, jumbo grillers, Big & Juicy's, kosher dogs and spiced dogs […]

    6. An underdog.

    7. Foot

      Foot; toe.

      • My dogs are barking!
      • You look good in those shoes with your dogs out!

    8. (from "dog and bone") Phone or mobile phone.

      • My dog is dead.

    9. One of the cones used to divide up a racetrack when training horses.

    10. Something that performs poorly.

      • He gives his dog-Mota or dog-Fiji in exchange for Pigeon English.
      • That modification turned his Dodge hemi into a dog.

    11. A cock, as of a gun.

      • To this succeeded the Snaplance ^([sic]), in which a motion was given to the dog, or cock, and a movable plate of steel, called the frizel, or hammer, was placed vertically above the pan to receive the action of the flint.

    12. A dance having a brief vogue in the 1960s in which the actions of a dog were mimicked.

      • Hmm, see the girl with the red dress on She can do the dog all night long.
      • Just like the dog but not so low Like the hully gully but not so slow Now baby swim, baby do the swim.
      • We had a lovely dance—luckily it was a slow number. I don't think Mr. Lincoln would have been up to the dog or a fast twist.

    13. To pursue with the intent to catch.

    14. To follow in an annoying or harassing way.

      • The woman cursed him so that trouble would dog his every step.
      • […] they were discovered in a very improper manner by the husband of the gypsy, who, from jealousy it seems, had kept a watchful eye over his wife, and had dogged her to the place, where he found her in the arms of her gallant.

    15. To fasten a hatch securely.

      • It is very important to dog down these hatches.

    16. To watch, or participate, in sexual activity in a public place.

      • I admit that I like to dog at my local country park.
      • Lightning [is a] burst of charged particles that lights up the sky and allows onlookers to see who's dogging in the bushes without using a flashlight.

    17. To intentionally restrict one's productivity as employee

      To intentionally restrict one's productivity as employee; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished.

      • A surprise inspection of the night shift found that some workers were dogging it.

    18. To criticize.

    19. To divide (a watch) with a comrade.

      • A. We never stood 4 to 8 p.m. watches, sir. We dogged our watches. Q. I suppose that is 6 to 8 p.m., then; it is a little indistinct. I mean the second dog watch.
      • Meanwhile, we dogged the watch sections so that both halves of the crew could fetch full sea bags of uniforms and gear […]

    20. Of inferior quality

      Of inferior quality; very bad.

      • Oh man, this game is absolutely dog!

    21. radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter D.

    22. The language supposedly spoken by dogs

      • Shakespeare could understand Human, the language used by people, as well as Dog, the telepathic speech with which canines communicated with each other.
      • Lara's biggest frustration was that she could only speak one language – her native tongue of Dog. She would have loved to learn to speak Human but this was beyond the spy-training programme.

    23. The eleventh of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related…

      The eleventh of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.

    24. Newcastle Brown Ale

      • This article celebrates the fine city of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, situated in northeast England, and its gentle inhabitants, the Geordies. […] Oh yes. Nothing like a pint of dog to establish oneself as a suave sophisticate.

    25. The Dog Star

      The Dog Star; Sirius.

      • But he must ever watch the northern Bear, Who from her frozen height with jealous eye Confronts the Dog and the Hunter in the south, And is alone not dipt in Ocean's stream.

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Derived

a barking dog never bites, a barking dog seldom bites, African Lion Dog, a hit dog will holler, aid dog, alpha dog, alpha-dog, Alsatian dog, and your little dog too, angledog, an old dog for a hard road, antidog, anti-dogger, Arctic dog disease, arson dog, as sick as a dog, assistance dog, Atlas Mountain Dog, attack dog, Australian cattle dog, avalanche dog, Azara's dog, Bắc Hà dog, badger dog, bait dog, balloon dog, bandog, barking dogs never bite, barking dogs seldom bite, beardog, bedog, bench dog, Bernese mountain dog, beware of dog, beware of the dog, big dog, big dog of the tanyard, bird dog, bird-dog, Black Dog, bone-crushing dog · +712 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at DOG. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at dog. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at dog

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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