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▪ I. puppy, n.|ˈpʌpɪ|
Also 5–6 popi(e, 6 pup(p)ee, 6–7 puppie.
[Corresponds in form, and, to a certain extent in sense, to F. poupée (in 13th c. popee, Littré) a doll, a woman likened to a doll as a dressed-up inanity, a lay figure used in dressmaking or as a butt in shooting; also, contextually, a plaything, hobby, toy (e.g. il en fait sa poupée), whence app. in Eng. ‘a dog used as a plaything, a toy dog’, a sense unknown to French. The doll- and woman- senses of F. poupée are usually represented in Eng. by puppet n. 1, 2. But puppet and puppy are not always distinct; puppet (sense 4) was in early use synonymous with puppy (sense 1 or 2), and in dialects puppy is still widely used in the sense of puppet, esp. in puppy-show for puppet-show.
F. poupée has no cognate form in the other Romanic langs.; it appears to have been an anomalous French formation on the stem of Romanic pupp-a for L. pūpa girl, doll, puppet, but the use of L. and Rom. -āta, F. -ée in such a sense is apparently unparalleled.]
†1. A small dog used as a lady's pet or plaything; a toy dog. Obs.
1486Bk. St. Albans f iv b, Smale ladies popis that beere a way the flees. 1519W. Horman Vulg. 277 Lytel popies, that serueth for ladies, weere sumtyme bellis, sumtyme colers ful of prickis for theyr defence. 1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. i. cxl, Of doggues there ben diuerse sortes... There ben litle minxes, or pupees that ladies keepe in their chaumbers..to playe withall. Ibid. ii. xviii. 271 When he sawe in Roome straungiers carrye young puppees in their armes to plaie withall. 1576Fleming tr. Caius' Eng. Dogs S iii, Of the Spaniel gentle,..Melitœus... These puppies the smaller they be, the more pleasure they prouoke. 1655Capel Tentations 15 A foolish woman may in her foolish affection dote upon a puppy more than on her gold.
2. a. A young dog, a whelp.
1591Shakes. Two Gent. iv. iv. 3 One that I brought vp of a puppy: one that I sau'd from drowning, when three or foure of his blinde brothers and sisters went to it. 1598― Merry W. iii. v. 11. c 1680 Earl of Dorset To Edw. Howard on his plays 30 And though 'tis late if justice could be found, Thy plays, like blind-born puppies, should be drown'd. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) III. 302 In less than a month the puppy begins to use all its senses. 1858Youatt Dog xiii. 348 A bitch that was often brought to my house was suckling a litter of puppies.
b. By extension, A young seal; cf. pup n.1 3. Also, the young of a shark; so puppy shark.
1890in Cent. Dict. 1934W. Beebe Half Mile Down iv. 85, I saw five sharks milling around the foot of the ladder. Two were yard-long puppies. Ibid. 310 The uppermost one, about two feet in length, was a puppy shark. 1962Amer. Speech XXXVII. 194 The name puppy shark may be applied to any small shark.
3. a. Applied to a person as a term of contempt; especially, in modern use, a vain, empty-headed, impertinent young man; a fop, a coxcomb.
In quot. a 1613 perh. = F. poupée a lay figure or dressed-up person.
1589Pappe w. Hatchet in Lyly's Wks. (1902) III. 404 Pappe with an hatchet for such a puppie. 1597G. Harvey Trimming Nashe 1 To the polypragmaticall..Puppie Thomas Nashe. a1613Overbury A wife, &c. (1638) 179 There is a confederacy between him and his clothes, to be made a puppy. c1645Howell Lett. (1650) IV. vii. 19 That opinion of a poor shallow-brain'd puppy, who [etc.]. 1710Swift Jrnl. to Stella 14 Nov., Sir Richard Cox, they say, is sure of going over lord chancellor, who is as arrant a puppy as ever eat bread. 1738― Pol. Conversat. 110, I did a very foolish thing yesterday, and was a great Puppy for my Pains. 1748Chesterfield Lett. (1774) I. 342, I should be a most affected puppy if I did so. 1831Lincoln Herald 17 June 3/6 There are only two classes amongst street smokers—namely puppies and blackguards. 1849Miss Mulock Ogilvies ii, A clever, sensible young man; has no conceit about him like the puppies of our day.
†b. Applied to a woman in sense of F. poupée: a (mere) doll. Obs.
1594Nashe Unfort. Trav. 42 Who..hath no wittie, but a clownish dull flegmatike puppie to his mistres.
†c. Applied to women in various figurative senses from 1 or 2. Obs.
1592Greene Hee & Shee Conny-Catcher Wks. (Grosart) X. 241 Holding such Maidens as were modest, fooles, and such as were not, as wilfully wanton as my selfe, puppies, ill brought vppe and without manners. 16022nd Pt. Ret. fr. Parnass. i. vi. 471 You light skirt starres..By glomy light perke out your doutfull heads: But when Don Phœbus showes his flashing snout, You are skie puppies [i.e. lesser dog-stars] straight your light is out. a1693Urquhart Rabelais iii. xxxiv, Other such like Queanish flurting Harlots..and such like Puppies [Fr. telles mastines].
4.
†a. = poppet 2, puppet 2. Obs.
1659Torriano It.-Eng. Dict., Pupa..a childs babby, puppy, or puppet to play withal.
b. A north and east country equivalent of puppet n. 3; see Eng. Dial. Dict.
5. A white bowl or buoy used in the herring-fishery to mark the position of the net nearest the fishing-boat (Cent. Dict.).
6. attrib. and Comb., as puppy-clumsiness, puppy-cup (see cup n. 2 b), puppy-hunting, puppy-pertness, puppy-picture, puppy-play, puppy-stage, puppy stake, puppy style; puppy-like, puppy-looking adjs.; puppy-biscuit, a finer kind of dog-biscuit; puppy-drum, a young or small-sized drum-fish; puppy fat, excessive fat in a child or adolescent causing a condition of plumpness which is freq. outgrown; puppy-fish, a name of the angel-fish, Squatina Angelus; puppy foot U.S. slang (see quots.); puppy-god, a puerile divinity; puppy-headed a., stupid; puppy-hole Eton slang, a pupil-room; puppy-love (contemptuous): cf. calf-love; puppy-peeping a., looking with half-closed eyes like a puppy; † puppy-snatch, a snare; puppy-tooth, a small dog-tooth or houndstooth check; puppy walker, one who takes hound-puppies to ‘walk’; so puppy walking; puppy-water, the urine of a puppy, formerly used as a cosmetic.
1895F. Anstey Lyre & Lancet xi. 111 Ought a schipperke to have meat? Mine won't touch *puppy biscuits.
1845Youatt Dog i. 6 The characteristic *puppy-clumsiness of their limbs.
Ibid. ii. 35 It seems..to be agreed that no dog or bitch can qualify for a *puppy cup after two years of age.
1893Outing (U.S.) XXII. 94/2 Small drum from eight to twelve inches in length are caught in set nets in the shoal waters of Pamlico Sound about Hatteras... They are called ‘*puppy-drum’ by the natives.
1937M. Allingham Dancers in Mourning x. 138 A large sulky youth in a black suit..too small for his *puppy-fat body. 1940M. Dickens Mariana v. 152 You grew late, now you're getting your puppy-fat late. 1972A. Christie Elephants can Remember xiii. 175 She was beautiful... Not when she was about thirteen or fourteen. She had a lot of puppy fat then.
1883Day Fishes Gt. Brit. II. 327 Rhina squatina. Names,—Angel-fish... Fiddle-fish, from its shape. *Puppy-fish.
1907Hoyle's Games 410 *Puppy foot, the ace of clubs. 1932Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 26 Feb. 6/6 The ace of clubs is often called the puppyfoot. 1961Webster, Puppyfoot,..a card of the club suit in a pack of playing cards.
1610Healey St. Aug. Citie of God iv. xxxiv. 195 They..were brought up without any of these *puppy-gods helpes [sine tot diis puerilibus].
1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, ii. iv. 107 A tame Cheater, hee: you may stroake him as gently, as a *Puppie Greyhound.
1610― Temp. ii. ii. 159, I shall laugh my selfe to death at this *puppi-headed Monster.
1912G. Frankau One of Us i. 10 Idled in ‘*puppy-hole’. 1922S. Leslie Oppidan vi. 75 A list of lines due was hung in his puppy-hole. 1940M. Marples Public School Slang 144 Puppy-hole,..pupil-room, when boys work with their tutors.
1708S. Centlivre Busie Body ii. ii, Let me catch you no more *Puppy-hunting about my Doors.
1839King Leopold Let. to Q. Vict. in Daily News 10 Feb. (1899) 5/7 Without that *puppy-like affectation which is so often found with young gentlemen of rank.
1796C. Smith Marchmont III. 256 The *puppy-looking animal who came with her.
1834W. A. Caruthers Kentuckian in N.Y. I. 175 Oh! it is nothing more than *puppy love! 1907Black Cat June 4 He adored her with all the fatuous idolatry of puppy love.
1895G. Meredith Amazing Marriage xvi, [A prize fighter] sat on the knee of a succouring seconder,..*puppy-peeping, inconsolably comforted.
1795Wolcott (P. Pindar) Tales Hoy Wks. 1812 IV. 390 With *puppy-pertness, pretty pleasant prig.
1692J. Smyth Scarron., Travesty 2nd Bk. Virgil's æneis 10 So he by either means might catch Us Trojans in a *Puppy-snatch.
1856‘Stonehenge’ Brit. Sports i. iii. iv. §2. 174/2 Those who do not care for *puppy stakes. 1880Daily News 12 Nov. 2/7 Four dogs are now left in for the Puppy Stakes.
1960Times 22 Jan. 14/3 One [coat], particularly good, in black and white *puppy tooth silk. 1961Sunday Express 26 Feb. 7/1 A trio of dark puppytooth checks. 1968J. Ironside Fashion Alphabet 218 Hound's-tooth, (in smaller versions—dog-tooth or puppy-tooth) is a variety of Broken check.
1887Field 27 Aug. 362/2 The toast ‘Success to fox-hunting, and the *puppy walkers of England’.
1900Daily News 13 June 8/4 The events of the hunting man's year, beginning with *puppy-walking, the training of the hunter, and cub-hunting.
1687Sedley Bellam. i. Wks. 1722 II. 93 You spend it him in Coach-hire, *Puppy-water and Paint, every day of your Life. 1730Swift Misc., Lady's Dressing Room, With Puppy-water, Beauty's Help, Distill'd from Tripsey's darling Whelp.
Hence (nonce-wds.) ˈpuppycide, the killing of a puppy or puppies; ˈpuppyess, a female puppy (sense 3).
1791Bon Ton Mag. Mar., Title-p. 2, 1. Portrait of a Modern Puppy. 2. Portrait of a Modern Puppeyess. 1865Pall Mall G. 5 July 9/2 It is to be hoped that the crime of puppycide..may be checked.
▪ II. puppy, v.|ˈpʌpɪ|
[f. prec. n.]
intr. and trans. To bring forth puppies; to whelp, litter; to pup.
1589Greene Menaphon (Arb.) 83 Bitches that puppie in hast bring forth blind whelpes. 1601Holland Pliny II. 355 A young whelpe..such an one as the bitch puppied the same morning. 1687A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. i. 51 A Bitch that had newly puppied. 1736Bailey (folio), Pup, to bring forth puppies, to puppy. |