单词 | street dog |
释义 | > as lemmasstreet dog street dog n. a stray or ownerless dog living in the streets. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [noun] > ownerless street dog1775 pariah dog1780 pariah1816 pye-dog1864 pye1886 stray1892 1775 W. Kenrick & J. Murdoch tr. G. L. Leclerc Nat. Hist. Animals, Veg. & Minerals II. 69 There are dogs which may be called treble mongrels, because they proceed from the mixture of two races, already both mixed, as the whelp and the street dog. 1873 C. G. Leland Egyptian Sketch-bk. 228 Nobody looked at it but I and a street-dog. 1911 Contemp. Rev. July 27 We have got rid of the street dogs in Constantinople. 2006 Bark Jan. 75/1 Like other street dogs on the island, he'd adopt tourists for the duration of their visit. < as lemmas |
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