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dogsRelated to dogs: Docs dog1. verb To judge or criticize someone for something. Why are you dogging me about this? It's really not a big deal. 2. verb To follow or pursue someone. You've been dogging me since I left the gas station—what's your deal, man? 3. verb To persistently trouble someone. I really think she should see a therapist if memories of the accident keep dogging her like that. 4. noun Something of poor quality. That movie was a real dog—I left before it was over. 5. noun An unattractive or unappealing female. I'm not asking that girl out—she's a real dog! 6. noun, slang The phone. The term comes from rhyming slang in which "dog" is short for "dog and bone," which rhymes with "phone." Primarily heard in UK, Australia. Is that the dog? Can someone answer it? My sister has been blabbing on the dog for hours every night ever since she got a boyfriend. It's so annoying. dogsThe feet. Boy, are my dogs tired after all that walking! See also: dog Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. See also:- accompany (one) on a/(one's) journey
- accompany on a journey
- be out of (one's) league
- be out of somebody's league
- a dog in the manger
- be/have done with somebody/something
- bargain
- bargain for (someone or something) with (someone)
- brief (someone) about (someone or something)
- brief about
References in classic literature Still limping, the dog hobbled to the garden-edge, dug a hole and lay down in it. SIR--I give you the dog because of what you got me out of. Actions and Reactions Ay, it passed; for many a dog, as well as a human, had he, Bashti, devoured in his hey-dey of appetite and youth, when he knew only motion and strength, and fed motion and strength out of the calabashes of feasting. "Some dog, that dog, sure some dog," he might have uttered in Van Horn's fashion of speech. Jerry of the Islands He found the box with the tinder in it; but just as he was kindling a light, and had struck a spark out of the tinder-box, the door burst open, and the dog with eyes as large as saucers, which he had seen down in the tree, stood before him and said: Get me money!' he cried to the dog, and hey, presto! Yellow Fairy Book "As I was sayin', Henry, we've got six dogs. I took six fish out of the bag. "We've got six dogs," the other reiterated dispassionately. White Fang Kotuko went out, day after day, with a light hunting-sleigh and six or seven of the strongest dogs, looking till his eyes ached for some patch of clear ice where a seal might perhaps have scratched a breathing-hole. The dogs' meat was taken for human use, and Amoraq fed the team with pieces of old summer skin-tents raked out from under the sleeping-bench, and they howled and howled again, and waked to howl hungrily. Second Jungle Book The dog had liked him from the start, and had followed him. To him it was the most natural thing in the world thus to be familiarly seized and shaken about by a total stranger, while a jovial voice muttered: "That's right, dog. Stick around, stick around, and you'll wear diamonds, maybe." Michael Brother of Jerry Considering that the price of dogs had been boomed skyward by the unwonted demand, it was not an unfair sum for so fine an animal. He speedily learned that Perrault and Francois were fair men, calm and impartial in administering justice, and too wise in the way of dogs to be fooled by dogs. The Call of the Wild Once, with a muttered imprecation, Kama leaped away, a stick of firewood in hand, and clubbed apart a tangle of fighting dogs. Daylight, between mouthfuls, fed chunks of ice into the tin pot, where it thawed into water. Burning Daylight |