lap dog
noun/ˈlæpdɒɡ/
Definitions
A small toy dog, kept as household pet, whose light weight and companionable temperament…
A small toy dog, kept as household pet, whose light weight and companionable temperament make it both suited and disposed to spend time resting in the comfort of its master's lap; a dog bred to behave in this manner.
- A lady loses her muff, her fan, or her lap-dog, and so the silly poet runs home to versify the disaster.
- There might ye ſee the pioney ſpread vvide, / The full-blovvn roſe, the ſhepherd and his laſs, / Lap-dog and lambkin vvith black ſtaring eyes, / And parrots vvith tvvin cherries in their beak.
- Frau von Greifenstein had seated herself in a straw chair with her parasol, her fan and her lap-dog, a little toy terrier which was always suffering from some new and unheard-of nervous complaint.
A person who behaves in a servile manner, such as a sycophantic employee or a fawning…
A person who behaves in a servile manner, such as a sycophantic employee or a fawning lover.
- As a lady's lap-dog Leonard did not excel. He was not an Italian, still less a Frenchman.
- Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who vacations in Cape Cod, has nevertheless been […] determined to shed the image of his predecessor, Tony Blair, as America’s lap dog.
- This process, known as "regulatory capture," turns regulators from watchdogs into lapdogs.
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