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ˈpuppy-dog
A child's word for puppy n. 1, 2.
1595Shakes. John ii. i. 460 Here's a large mouth..That..Talkes as familiarly of roaring Lyons, As maids of thirteene do of puppi-dogges. 1664Butler Hud. ii. iii. 934 Of Monkeys, Puppy-Dogs, and Cats. 1702S. Parker tr. Cicero's De Finibus iv. 262 A Puppy-Dog, that's within a few Hours of the Age of Seeing, is as blind as another that's newly whelp'd. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 428 Like puppy-dogs, they delight to..pull at all who come near them.
†b. puppy-dog water = puppy-water (puppy 6).
1663–4Pepys Diary 8 Mar., Up with some little discontent with my wife upon her saying that she had got and used some puppy-dog water, being put upon it by my Aunt Wight..who hath a mind..to get some for her ugly face. |