单词 | dogdom |
释义 | dogdomn. humorous. The domain or world of dogs. Also: dogs, esp. domestic dogs, as a group; dogs collectively. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [noun] > collective dogkind1693 dogdom1854 doghood1876 1854 Chambers's Jrnl. 2 280 A graduate in horse-management and dogdom. 1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 11 Feb. 7/2 The Dog show..bringing together 3,000 specimens of dogdom. 1904 H. Compton 20th Cent. Dog i. 119 In the Griffon Bruxellois you have the Captain Kettle of dogdom. 1966 S. J. Perelman Chicken Inspector No. 23 254 I was schlepping a half-grown beagle around the park..and getting pretty well teed off with dogdom. 2000 K. Atkinson Emotionally Weird (2001) 266 It was clearly..an infinitely more sophisticated representative of dogdom than the elusive yellow dog. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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