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单词 dog box
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dog boxn.

Brit. /ˈdɒɡ bɒks/, U.S. /ˈdɔɡ ˌbɑks/, /ˈdɑɡ ˌbɑks/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: dog n.1, box n.2
Etymology: < dog n.1 + box n.2
1. A box for a dog to lie in.
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1800 A. MacLaren Soldier's Widow i. ii. 8 (stage direct.) An old dog box before the door.
1815 Sporting Mag. 46 138 A mallard belonging to Mr. Tucker..was observed to resort every evening to a dog-box in his yard.
1845 R. S. Surtees Hillingdon Hall II. xxvi. 191 The rattle of the chain..against the wooden dog-box.
1946 D. Thomas Let. 27 Apr. (1987) 588 Have you a little sheetless..dogbox with nails for me to sleep in? Any shelter for the night?
2001 J. O'Brien At Home in Heart of Appalachia v. 79 His homemade feeder sits..at the end of the alley near Lady's dog box.
2.
a. A compartment for conveying dogs in a railway van or carriage (cf. box n.2 20), or (subsequently) in a motor vehicle.
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1856 C. Dickens Little Dorrit (1857) i. x. 82 He..took the Dog with him by rail. Inestimable Dog. Flew at the porter fellow when he was put into the dog-box.
1862 E. Davenport Live Toys xiv Shut up in a dog-box on the train.
1886 Times 17 Aug. 3/5 Setters and pointers and bright-eyed sagacious retrievers..being packed away in the dark dog-boxes.
1969 J. Hascombe Down & Almost Under 31 The dog in the carriage with you?.. He'll have to go in the dogbox.
1985 New Yorker 19 Aug. 56/3 He opened the door to the dog box in the bed of his pickup and pointed inside, and Bigfoot jumped in first and Spike immediately after.
1999 C. S. Walton Ivan Petrov i. 9 We wriggled into a dog box fixed underneath a carriage.
2006 K. Michalowski 15 Minutes to Great Dog i. 13 Dog Box. Often called a portable kennel, this serves as..a safe means to transport the dog in a vehicle.
b. In extended use: (a) Australian a railway carriage with compartments but no internal corridor; (b) New Zealand †a type of railway goods wagon (obsolete).
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society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > railway wagon or carriage > for goods
freight wagon1832
freight car1833
goods wagon1840
dog box1905
goods set1927
society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > railway wagon or carriage > carriage designed to carry passengers > other types of passenger carriage
caravan1821
private car1826
Jim Crow car1835
ladies' car1841
saloon car or carriage1842
palace car1844
ladies' carriage1847
parliamentary carriage1849
parlour car1859
composite carriage1868
Pullman1869
observation car1872
first1873
compo1878
bogie carriage1880
chair-car1880
club car1893
corridor carriage1893
tourist-car1895
birdcage1900
dog box1905
corridor coach1911
vista-dome1945
Stolypin1970
1905 N. Spielvogel Gumsucker on Tramp 44 I found..railway cars worse than the worst Australia possesses. The one I came down here in was a dog box.
1917 E. Miller Diary 24 Apr. in Camps, Tramps & Trenches (1939) i. 2 Our crowd moved off from headquarters in the railway goods wagons known as ‘dog-boxes’.
1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. x. 196 The use of dog-boxes to describe many carriages used on N.S.W. railways.
1973 D. Foster North South West 93 I'm sitting, actually frozen, in the corner of some mail car going west, while outside my second class dogbox (we're stopped) is a platform.
1996 M. Hayes Didja hear About..? 71 They were booked into a dog box carriage on the old steam train..and were confined to each other's company for a whole day.

Phrases

colloquial (chiefly New Zealand and South African). in the dog box: in disgrace; out of favour. Cf. in the doghouse at doghouse n. Phrases.
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1953 Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.) 9 Mar. 12 Rather funny you being in the cactus at home—I'm in the dog box with my wife too.
1972 Marlborough Express (Blenheim, N.Z.) 21 Oct. 6 They're [sc. errant husbands] either in the dog box or leading a dog's life.
1985 ‘J. Gash’ Pearlhanger (1986) xxvi. 212 I was in the dogbox right enough.
2000 Cosmopolitan (Cape Town) Oct. 216/2 In the beginning, when you feel you're still in the dog box,..going the extra mile will get you much further than approaching assignments with a my-boss-hates-me-anyway-so-why-bother attitude.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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