单词 | puppyhood |
释义 | puppyhoodn. 1. The state or condition of being a puppy or young dog; the early period of a dog's life. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [noun] > puppy > state of being (like) puppyhood1751 puppyishness1879 1751 F. Coventry Hist. Pompey the Little i. iii. 13 The puppyhood of little Pompey. 1848 J. Mills Life Foxhound i When I was at walk at the home of my puppyhood, the hospitable farm-house. 1881 G. Allen Evolutionist at Large 185 When a dog has once been brought up from puppyhood under a master. 1904 St. Nicholas Sept. 1029/1 The children fed him by hand on minced bread and milk, and soon his puppyhood waxed into doghood. 2006 Sunday Tasmanian (Nexis) 18 June a31 During puppy-hood there is an opportunity to develop good people-skills in puppies. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > [noun] > pertness or brashness sauciness1534 pertness1573 puppyism1776 sauce1786 puppyhood1849 puppydom1855 puppyishness1879 freshness1880 brashness1883 whipper-snapping1925 1849 C. Brontë Shirley II. iii. 79 That six feet of puppyhood makes a perpetually recurring eclipse of our friendship. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1751 |
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