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单词 dogleech
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dogleechn.

Forms: see dog n.1 and leech n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: dog n.1, leech n.1
Etymology: < dog n.1 + leech n.1 With sense 1 compare uses at dog n.1 II. With sense 2 compare dog doctor n. at dog n.1 Compounds 1a(a).
Obsolete.
1. An ignorant or underqualified medical practitioner; a quack.
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the world > health and disease > healing > healer > physician > [noun] > ignorant or untrained
dogleech1529
empiric1562
amethodist1654
experimentator1684
empiricist1844
1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes ii. 57 b/1 Ye myght happen vppon a dogge leche, for lacke of knowledge of the conning.
1562 W. Bullein Dial. Sorenes f. 6, in Bulwarke of Defence For Dogge leaches and Tinkers shal haue worke in euery village.
1629 J. Ford Lovers Melancholy iv. 57 O this lousie close-stoole Empricks, that will vndertake all Cures, yet know not the causes of any disease. Dog-leaches.
a1652 R. Brome Queenes Exchange (1657) iv. i. sig. E4v/2 Thy Liege, Dog-leech? are you at that garb too?
?1750 Harangues Celebrated Quack-doctors 44 He labours to make their Minds sick, e'er their bodies feel it, and then there's work for the Dog-Leach.
1825 W. Scott Betrothed xvii, in Tales Crusaders II. 13 A fit physician for such a patient..a dog-leech for a dreamy madman, that neither knows his own disease nor the way to cure it.
1874 A. C. Swinburne Bothwell i. i. 12 How subtle in starry riddles and earth's roots The dog-leeches that kill your soul in you, Or only body, or both.
2. A veterinary surgeon who treats dogs.
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the world > health and disease > healing > veterinary medicine and surgery > [noun] > veterinarian > other veterinary specialists
scab-picker1499
beast leech1627
dogleech1638
greasera1642
cow-leech1745
bullock-leech1774
cow-doctor1789
theriogenologist1970
1638 J. Ford Fancies iv. 52 I will once turne Dog-leech.
1640 T. Nabbes Bride v. i He cured my little Shock of the mange..an excellent Dog-leech.
1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus iii. v. 84/1 Suspicion of ‘Servility’,..the very dogleech is anxious to disavow.
1840 Edinb. Rev. July 421 Call [Marat] up, with our author, and..apostrophize him as ‘remarkable horse-leech’ or ‘dog-leech’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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