dog keepern.
/ˈdɒɡ ˌkiːpə/, U.S. /ˈdɔɡ ˌkipər/, /ˈdɑɡ ˌkipər/ 1. A person who keeps a dog or dogs; spec. a person employed to take charge of a pack of dogs.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping dogs or cats > [noun] > keeping or affinity with dogs > dog-keeper
dog keeper1543
walker1930
1543 in F. Madden Privy Purse Expenses Princess Mary (1831) 113 Item payed to Cristofer the Dogkeper xxiiij s.
1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor v. i. sig. Oiii Mac. How now mine honest friend? whose Dog-keeper art thou? Groome. Dog-keeper sir? I hope I scorne that yfaith. Mac. Why? do'st thou not keepe a Dogge? View more context for this quotation
a1655 R. Cox Actæon & Diana (1656) 2 A man of Authority as I am, having been chief dog-keeper to my Lord Acteon this five years.
1704 J. Swift Tale of Tub ii. 69 It was written by a Dog-keeper of my Grand-father's.
1788 J. Cooper tr. A. Berquin Children's Friend II. 83 Do you take me for a dog-keeper?
1849 H. W. Herbert Dermont O'Brien iii. 30 There was not one man present from Con, his father's brother's son, down to Phadraigh, the dog-keeper, whose name was not O'Brien.
1870 B. Clayton (title) The Dog-Keeper's Guide.
1978 Times 7 Jan. 12/5 In the mid-1960s..a dog-keeper left the palace gates open and two smooth-grey Syrian saluki bitches..infiltrated the pack.
1995 S. Loker et al. in R. K. Z. Heck et al. Home-based Employment & Family Life vi. 145 Beauticians and dog keepers predominated in those who cited legal concerns.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dogs used for specific purposes > [noun] > guard dog
porter?a1425
wap1464
dog keeper1576
mooner1576
warner1576
house dog1577
mâtin1579
defender1607
housekeeper1607
watchdoga1616
moondog1668
yard-dog1795
guard dog1796
big dog1833
tenter1844
junkyard dog1936
prowl dog1974
1576 A. Fleming tr. J. Caius Of Eng. Dogges 28 The Dogge keeper [L. custos]..doth not onely keepe farmers houses, but also merchaunts maisons.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. ix. 184/1 The Bear Mastive, which is of the largest size,..being high, strong and heavy; now these have their names according to their keeping, as, The Dog Keeper, are keepers of Farmers Houses. The Butchers Dog, for keeping and taking his Cattel [etc.].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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