dogshipn.
/ˈdɒɡʃɪp/, U.S. /ˈdɔɡˌʃɪp/, /ˈdɑɡˌʃɪp/ With possessive adjective, as his dogship, your dogship, etc.: a mock complimentary or respectful designation for a dog.Quot. 1623 refers to a dogfish.
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the world > animals > fish > subclass Elasmobranchii > order Pleurotremata > [noun] > family Scyliorhinidae > dogfish
sea-houndc1330
houndfishc1386
hussc1440
dogfishc1450
break-net1585
sea-dog1601
rough hound1602
hound1603
mallet-fish1611
dogship1623
morgya1667
gobbag1716
bone dog1825
roussette1844
1623 J. Webster Dutchesse of Malfy iii. v. sig. H4 v Darest thou Passe by our Dog-ship, without reuerence?
1665 R. Head Eng. Rogue I. xv. 156 [The dogs] would..have kist my very heels, had not my stick prevented their Snearing Dogships mouths.
1682 T. Otway Venice Preserv'd iii. 27 Let me beseech your Dogship to play your trick's over as fast as you can, that you may come to stinking the sooner, and be turn'd out of dores as you deserve.
1857 Agitator (Wellsboro, Pa.) 26 Mar. 2/1 The snow on either side was about four feet deep. One of us must turn out, and I rather expected to take precedence of his dogship.
1860 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters V. 228 The dog..cannot understand..why she is allowed to stay, disturbing the family, and taking all their attention from his dogship.
1901 Sandusky (Ohio) Daily Star 1 Apr. 5/2 A handsome black spaniel..had an experience last week that would be worth hearing if his dogship had only words for expression.
1941 Daily Courier (Connellsville, Pa.) 8 Feb. 4/3 Next morning his dogship was..so hungry he ate a whole pound of hamburger.
2005 J. Fredston Snowstruck iii. 83 His dogship was..becomingly thankful, but..not overly demonstrative in protesting the old underlying affection for his..master.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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