doghousen.
/ˈdɒɡhaʊs/, U.S. /ˈdɔɡˌ(h)aʊs/, /ˈdɑɡˌ(h)aʊs/ 1. A house or shelter for a dog, or for a pack of dogs; a kennel. Now chiefly U.S.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping dogs or cats > [noun] > keeping or affinity with dogs > kennels > kennel
kennel13..
cannela1475
doghouse1555
dog kennel1570
dog hutch1798
1555 H. Machyn Diary (1848) 95 The ix day of October was a servyngman..bered in Morefeld be-syd the doge-howsse, be-caus he was not resseff the ryctes of the chyrche.
1616 T. Overbury et al. Characters in His Wife (9th impr.) sig. R8 Not onely those cures at the doghouse but these within the walls.
1686 R. Blome Gentlemans Recreation ii. 97/1 As soon as the Greyhounds..are led in to the Dog-house, they are delivered to the Keepers.
1714 London Gaz. No. 5266/8 In the Tentor Ground by the Dog house in Bunhill fields.
1774 R. Henry Hist. Great Brit. II. ii. v. 396 The adjacent buildings..viz. the dormitory,..the bake-house, the store-house, the stable, and the dog-house.
1822 W. Irving Bracebridge Hall (1823) I. 97 An unhappy cur chained in a doghouse.
1879 F. R. Stockton Rudder Grange vii. 77 I had no dog-house as yet.
1936 K. J. Scudder in S. Glueck & E. Glueck Preventing Crime ii. 43 ‘What you makin'?’ ‘A dog house for me new pup!’
1970 Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 21 Mar. C2/6 Going to paper a wall?.. Build a doghouse? Lay a patio?
2005 New Yorker 27 June 69/3 A scrappy, scuffed up,..broken-down wreck of a doghouse on a bed of plywood.
2.
a. Usually colloquial or slang. In various contexts: a structure or shelter of a shape or size suggesting a kennel or shelter for a dog.
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1821 W. Scott Kenilworth II. iii. 50 I have brought fortune to your old ruinous dog-house in the shape of a devil's ally, that can change slate-shivers into Spanish dollars.
1854 B. Mayer Capt. Canot 242 I thought it best to meet rebellion half way, by breaking the suspected officer, and sending him forward, at the same time that I threw his ‘dog house’ overboard.
1862 G. Sprenger Diary 17 Sept. in Camp & Field Life 122d Regiment (1885) 45 What were termed shelter tents, but more commonly called dog-houses by the boys.
1898 H. E. Hamblen Gen. Manager's Story 43 I'll have to drop off a flag, or they'll git our doghouse [i.e. caboose, on a freight train].
1959 Manch. Guardian 3 Jan. 5 At the base the staff will visit the ‘greenhouse’ to check the ‘dog-house’,..a protuberance that houses instruments on the rocket's otherwise smooth skin.
1961 P. Moyes Sunken Sailor v. 74 A dog-house which gave shelter to the helmsman as he stood at the wheel.
1962 Gloss. Terms Glass Ind. (B.S.I.) 14 Dog-house, a small extension of a glass furnace, into which the batch is fed.
1973 Black Panther 5 May 7/1 The torture of their fellow prison inmates locked in punitive isolation (called ‘The Dog House’ by the prisoners).
1982 Fortune 25 Jan. 95/1 The geophones..transmit the impulses along the cable to a recording truck—the doghouse, in doodle-bug parlance—where they are amplified and converted.
2002 Yachting World Feb. 100/1 The helmsman steers from here... Just forward is a doghouse. It may not look pretty but four crew can sit inside, sheltered.
b. slang (chiefly Jazz). A double bass.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > bowable instrument > [noun] > double-bass
contrabass1598
double bass1728
bull fiddle1880
doghouse1924
bass1927
string bass1927
slap-bass1949
1916 Baseball Mag. Oct. 26 Fiddle means to steal a base. Big doghouse fiddle means to work the double steal.]
1924 S. Spaeth Common Sense Music 337 Bass viol, the bass fiddle or double bass, sometimes called ‘the dog-house’, in an orchestra.
1933 H. T. Webster in Forum Dec. When the bull-fiddler plucks the strings he is slapping the doghouse.
1945 L. Shelly Hepcats Jive Talk Dict. 9/2 Doghouse, the bass viol.
1974 Saturday Night (Toronto) June 29/1 ‘This next piece,’ announced Gary Karr, cuddling the baroque doghouse under his left arm, ‘is a sonata for bass viol’.
2007 Canad. Musician (Nexis) July–Aug. 27 Making the switch from electric bass to acoustic upright (double bass, upright bass, acoustic bass, bass violin, doghouse, or whatever you like to call it).
Phrases
slang (originally U.S.). in the doghouse in disgrace, out of favour. Cf. in the dog box at dog box n. Phrases.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disfavour > disfavouring [phrase] > out of favour
out of a person's books1509
in bad bread1743
in (also into) a person's bad books1832
in the doghouse1926
1926 J. J. Finerty ‘Criminalese’ (rev. ed.) 31 In dog house, in disfavor.
1932 Editor 6 Feb. 110/2 Dog-house: in disfavor. ‘My moll caught me tryin' to make that twist, so I'm in the dog-house now.’
1940 P. G. Wodehouse Quick Service xix. 231 Already he was solidly established in the doghouse as the result of that craps business.
1955 J. B. Priestley & J. Hawkes Journey down Rainbow ii. 34 And the men, so often ‘in the dog house’..are baffled and miserable, telling one another that women have always been like this, not knowing what they want.
1958 J. Cannan And be Villain iv. 83 He said to me, ‘I'm in the dog-house over this.’
1963 P. H. Johnson Night & Silence ix. 55 He'd been getting bad grades, he was in the dog-house as it was.
1975 T. Williams Let. 29 July in Five O'Clock Angel (1991) 328 I guess I'm in the dog-house with Bill.
2005 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Dec. 102/1 He's still in the doghouse following his non-response to the devastation of Katrina.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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