Dog

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1 English

1.1 Etymology
1.2 Pronunciation
1.3 Noun

1.3.1 See also

1.4 Verb
1.5 Proverbs and Idioms
1.6 Related Words
1.7 Adjective
1.8 Noun
1.9 Verb
1.10 Further reading

2 Dutch

2.11 Pronunciation
2.12 Noun

3 Swedish

3.13 Verb

English

Etymology

From old English docga, middle English dogge, further origin unknown.

Pronunciation

(UK) SAMPA: /dQg/ IPA: /dɒg/
(US) SAMPA: /dO:g/ IPA: /dɔːg/
(US, speakers with ɑ-ɔ merger) SAMPA:/da:g/ IPA: /dɑːg/
(US, New York City area) SAMPA:/dUO:g/ IPA: /dʊɔːg/

Noun

dog (plural: dogs)

A member of the genus Canis (probably descended from the common wolf) that has been domesticated by man since prehistoric times; occurs in many breeds; "the dog barked all night" Usage Note: The word dog can be used to refer exclusively to the male of the genus, the feminine form being bitch.
Scientific name
- Canis familiaris
Synonyms
- domestic dog
- hound
Related terms
- dogged
- sheepdog
- dog collar
- dog star
- cattle dog
- guide dog
- seeing eye dog
Translations
- Albanian: qeni
- Arabic: كَلب (kalb)
- Basque: etxe-txakur
- Belarussian: сабака
- Breton: ki m chas pl, kiez f -ed
- Bulgarian: куче (kuče)
- Catalan: gos, ca m, gossa f
- Cherokee: gitli gili
- Chinese: 犬 (quan3)
- Chumash (Inezeño): huču
- Croatian: pas m
- Czech: pes m
- Danish: hund m
- Dutch: hond m
- Esperanto : hundo
- Estonian: koer, hunt
- Faroese: hundur
- Finnish: koira
- French: chien m
- Frisian: hûn
- Friulian: cjan
- Gallegan: can
- German: Hund m
- Greek, Ancient: κύων (cyōn) c
- Greek, Modern: σκύλος (skilos) m
- Guarani: jagua
- Hawaiian: `Ilio (e leo)
- Hebrew: כלב (keh-lev)
- Hindi: कुत्ता (kuta)
- Hungarian: kutya
- Icelandic: hundur
- Indonesian: anjing
- Interlingua: can
- Inuktitut: qimmiq
- Irish: madra, gadhar, cú
- Italian: cane m
- Japanese: 犬 (inu)
- Javanese: asu
- Korean: 개 (gae)
- Ladin: cian
- Latin: canis c
- Latino sine flexione: cane
- Latvian: suns
- Lithuanian: šuo
- Lojban: gerku
- Lower Sorbian: pjas
- Macedonian: пес (pes)
- Malayalam: നായ്
- Maltese: dib=lupu
- Manchu: indahūn
- Maori: kurii
- Mongolian: нохой (nokhoi)
- Norwegian: hund
- Occitan: gos, can
- Polish: pies m
- Portuguese: cão m, cadela f, cachorro m, cachorra ''f'
- Provençal: can
- Romanian: câine
- Romansh: chaun
- Romany: zhukel m zhukli]] f
- Russian: собака (sobaka) f, пёс m
- Sami: beana
- Sardinian: cani/cane, perru, catteddu
- Scottish: cu
- Serbian: пас (pas)
- Slovak: pes
- Slovenian: pes m
- Spanish: perro m
- Swedish: hund
- Thai: หมา
- Tok Pisin: dok
- Tupinambá: îagûara
- Turkish: köpek
- Ukrainian: собака, пес (sobaka, pes)
- Upper Sorbian: pos, psyk
- Vietnamese: chó (IPA: /ʧɔ́/; VIQR: cho')
- Welsh: ci
- Yiddish: הונט (hoont)
A dull unattractive unpleasant girl or woman; "she got a reputation as a frump"; "she's a real dog" [syn: frump]
Informal term for a man: "you lucky dog"
Pejorative term for someone who is morally reprehensible; "you dirty dog" [syn: cad, bounder, blackguard, hound, heel].
Quotations
- 1599 - Robert Greene, Alphonsus, King of Aragon (1599). Act 3.
  Blasphemous dog, I wonder that the earth
- Doth cease from renting vnderneath thy feete,
- To swallow vp those cankred corpes of thine.
A hinged catch that fits into a notch of a ratchet to move a wheel forward or prevent it from moving backward [syn: pawl, detent, click]
Metal supports for logs in a fireplace; "the andirons were too hot to touch" [syn: andiron, firedog, dogiron]

Verb

Go after with the intent to catch [syn: chase, chase after, trail, tail, tag, go after, track]
To follow in an annoying way, to constantly be effected by. "Trouble dogged his every step."
Nautical To fasten a hatch securely, "It is very important to dog down these hatches...." [1].
(emerging useage in UK) to watch, or participate, in sexual activity in a public place, on the pretence of walking the dog.
A famous football player has admitted to going dogging at his local country park.