housebroken

adj
/haʊsbɹəʊkən/

Etymology

From house + broken.

  1. derived from *brekaną — “to break
  2. inherited from *brukanaz
  3. inherited from brocen
  4. inherited from broken
  5. compounded as housebroken — “house + broken

Definitions

  1. trained to avoid urinating or defecating in the house, except within a litterbox, toilet,…

    trained to avoid urinating or defecating in the house, except within a litterbox, toilet, or other receptacle.

    • Hey. At least I'm housebroken.
    • Week in and week out you come back like a housebroken Pomeranian loyal to the bitter end. Good boy.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for housebroken. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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