单词 | dogtrot |
释义 | dogtrotn. 1. a. A gentle, easy trot, like that of a dog. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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’. ΚΠ 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). ΚΠ 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. intransitive. To move at a dogtrot. ΚΠ 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). < n.a1450v.1910 |
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