doghoodn.
/ˈdɒɡhʊd/, U.S. /ˈdɔɡˌ(h)ʊd/, /ˈdɑɡˌ(h)ʊd/ The condition or nature of a dog; dogs, esp. domestic dogs, as a group; dogs collectively.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [noun] > condition or nature of
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [noun] > collective
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a1639 W. Whately Prototypes (1640) i. iv. 45 It is not man-hood, it is dog-hood.
1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (Rom. xii. 17) The world calls it [sc. revenge] manhood, it is doghood rather.
1803 Times 27 Dec. 2/4 Having thus, Sir, proved historically the honours of the doghood, I feel it unnecessary to dwell dog-matically on the field of demonstration.
1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda III. vi. xliv. 269 A lap-dog would be necessarily at a loss in framing to itself the motives and adventures of doghood at large.
1953 Salisbury (Maryland) Times 27 July 6/3 Single people or childless couples who get so ecstatic about either dogs or cats that they exalt them from doghood or cathood into the status of mankind.
1982 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 19 July 21 Bo reverts to a wholesome dogginess. It is agreed between us that I won't call him out of his doghood.
2001 Y. Martel Life of Pi (2002) xxxii. 84 The pet dog, which has so assimilated humans into the realm of doghood as to want to mate with them.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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