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单词 dogtrot
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dogtrotn.

Brit. /ˈdɒɡtrɒt/, U.S. /ˈdɔɡˌtrɑt/, /ˈdɑɡˌtrɑt/
Forms: see dog n.1 and trot n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: dog n.1, trot n.1
Etymology: < dog n.1 + trot n.1
1.
a. A gentle, easy trot, like that of a dog. Also figurative.
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the world > animals > by locomotion > locomotion of animals > [noun] > trot
dogtrota1450
the world > movement > rate of motion > [noun] > on foot > pace between walking and running
trotc1386
dogtrota1450
jog1611
jog-trot1796
turkey-trot1839
sling-trot1853
fadge1873
shack1881
shog1885
jundy1894
a1450 Castle Perseverance (1969) l. 3099 (MED) Now dagge we hens a dogge trot.
1637 T. Morton New Eng. Canaan i. vi. 30 With their bow in their left hand, and their quiuer of Arrowes at their back,..they will runne away a dogg trot, untill they come to their journey end.
1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. ii. 121 They both advanc'd and rod, A Dog-trot through the bawling Crowd.
1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VII. vii. 35 I hope that..keeping on a good round dog-trot, I shall be able to overtake thee.
1818 London Lit. Gaz. 19 Sept. 604/1 And forthwith sets off, 'twixt a walk and a gallop, (The same kind of pace, as I learnedly wot, Our pedestrians would properly call a dog-trot.)
1861 C. Boner Forest Creatures 2 [The wild boar] setting off at his old dog-trot.
1868 B. J. Lossing Hudson (new ed.) 11 Our Indian took the heaviest [boat]..and with a dog-trot bore it the whole distance.
1953 R. A. Heinlein Starman Jones xviii. 234 The pace was just bearable, between a fast walk and a dogtrot.
1964 R. D. Abrahams Deep down in Jungle ii. iv. 101 The balanced, four-stress line so easily falls into dog-trot rhythm.
1980 J. M. Auel Clan of Cave Bear v. 74 They fell into a ground-eating dogtrot, approaching the herd downwind.
b. figurative. A steady or habitual course of action; a habit, ‘way’. Cf. jog-trot n. Now rare.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > habitual course of action
bias?1571
dogtrot1682
1682 A. Behn City-heiress iii. i. 29 He must have t'other Health, he'll fall to his old Dog-trot again else.
1690 J. Dryden Amphitryon iii. 23 I'll fall into my old dog-trot of lying again, if this must come of plain dealing.
1742 W. Warburton Rem. Tillard in Wks. (1788) XI. i. 174 The common Dog-trot of Infidelity and Freethinking.
1765 H. Brooke Fool of Quality (Dublin ed.) I. vii. 224 Proceeding in, what they call, the Dog-Trot of Life, and, having a single Eye to the making of Money, he became vastly rich.
1819 J. Keats Let. 20 Dec. (1958) II. 239 Mr Brown and I go in our old dog trot of Breakfast, dinner (not tea, for we have left that off), supper Sleep.
1895 A. E. Barr Bernicia ii. 33 Business! Such a dog-trot of a life!
1897 M. E. W. Freeman in Harper's New Monthly Mag. 94 314/1 Nothing but the same old dog-trot of washing and ironing and scrubbing and cooking..till I drop into my grave.
1999 P. Marks in A. K. Kaler & R. Johnson-Kurek Romantic Conventions 14 The need for escape from that daily dog-trot.
2. literal. A journey made by dogs on the trot. Obsolete. rare.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun]
forec900
wayOE
farec1000
sitheOE
gangOE
journey?c1225
gatea1300
pilgrimagec1300
voyage1338
wending1340
raik?c1350
turna1400
repairc1425
went1430
reisea1450
progressionc1450
progressa1460
race1513
peregrination1548
travel1559
passance1580
dogtrot1856
trek1895
ulendo1921
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. i. 12 A dog-trot of near one hundred miles, where your dogs may drop at any moment.
3. In the southern United States: an open-ended, usually broad, passage which runs through the centre of a house, flanked by two enclosed living spaces. Also: a house having such a passage (cf. saddlebag n. Compounds 1). Cf. dog run n. 2, dog walk n. 2.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > passage or corridor > [noun]
alley1363
tresance1428
passagea1525
gallery1541
trance1545
through-passage1575
lobby1596
passageway?1606
conduit1624
gangway1702
vista1708
glidec1710
aisle1734
gallery1756
corridor1814
traverse1822
heck1825
rotunda1847
scutchell1847
zaguan1851
aisleway1868
pend1893
dogtrot1901
fairway1903
dog run1904
dog walk1938
walkout1947
coulisse1949
1901 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 7 11 The two room [cabin]..consists, sometimes, of two rooms under one roof, with an open space between, called a ‘dog-trot’.
1941 Arkansas: Guide to State (Federal Writers' Project) 103 A few of the squared-log dogtrots have been inhabited for a century.
1978 T. G. Jordan Texas Log Buildings 120/1 An English visitor placed dogtrots among ‘the better sort’ of log dwellings.
1991 C. Lancaster Antebellum Archit. Kentucky i. i. 15/1 Later, the dogtrot was enclosed, a lean-to was added across the south front, and the building was covered with clapboards.

Compounds

C1. General attributive, with the sense ‘that resembles a dogtrot in being steady and monotonous’.
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1705 A. Chaves Cares of Love i. i. 2 So, now I am going on one of my old Dog trot Errands,..with Messages here and there, to this Lady and t'other.
1824 E. Weeton Retrospect in E. Hall Jrnl. Governess 1807–11 (1939) i. 14 Oh! how I have burned to learn Latin, French,..anything rather than the dog trot way of sewing, teaching,..and washing dishes every day.
1864 D. G. Mitchell Seven Stories 197 Even the postillion had suffered his horses to get into a dog-trot jog, that he now made up for by a terrible thwacking, and a pestilent shower of oaths.
1918 J. O. Curwood Golden Snare xix. 202 For a good two hundred yards Philip set a dog-trot pace for Celie, who ran courageously at his side.
1994 K. D. Condax 101 Training Tips for your Dog 44 Start off by going slowly (at a dog-trot speed) and only for a block or two.
C2. attributive (in sense 3).
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1937 National Geographic Mag. 71 290 The dogtrot dwelling has two rooms with a floorless and doorless passage between and a roof over all.
1960 H. Lee To kill Mockingbird xi. 108 Mrs. Dubose lived..in a house with steep front steps and a dog-trot hall.
2004 J. B. Rehder Appalachian Folkways iv. 104 The dogtrot is one of the most interesting and easily recognized folk houses on the American landscape. A dogtrot house has two pens separated by an open-air passage.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

dogtrotv.

Brit. /ˈdɒɡtrɒt/, U.S. /ˈdɔɡˌtrɑt/, /ˈdɑɡˌtrɑt/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: dogtrot n.
Etymology: < dogtrot n.
intransitive. To move at a dogtrot.
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1910 Portsmouth (Ohio) Times 29 Jan. 9/5 As they dogtrotted in couples Uncle Henry studied the weather.
1934 Auk 51 146 Off they dog-trotted up the valley.
1956 R. H. Rovere Eisenhower Years xxxvi. 287 The Secret Service men who dogtrotted beside his [sc. the American President's] automobile.
1987 Canad. Geographic Dec. 45/2 His partner would settle another bale between the carrier's shoulder blades, and the loaded man would dogtrot along the portage trail.
2001 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 7 Jan. 38 I dogtrotted one long block to Third Avenue.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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