Definition of dog

"dog" in the noun sense

1. dog, domestic dog, Canis familiaris

a member of the genus Canis (probably descended from the common wolf) that has been domesticated by man since prehistoric times occurs in many breeds

"the dog barked all night"

2. frump, dog

a dull unattractive unpleasant girl or woman

"she got a reputation as a frump"

"she's a real dog"

3. dog

informal term for a man

"you lucky dog"

4. cad, bounder, blackguard, dog, hound, heel

someone who is morally reprehensible

"you dirty dog"

5. frank, frankfurter, hotdog, hot dog, dog, wiener, wienerwurst, weenie

a smooth-textured sausage of minced beef or pork usually smoked often served on a bread roll

6. pawl, detent, click, dog

a hinged catch that fits into a notch of a ratchet to move a wheel forward or prevent it from moving backward

7. andiron, firedog, dog, dog-iron

metal supports for logs in a fireplace

"the andirons were too hot to touch"

"dog" in the verb sense

1. chase, chase after, trail, tail, tag, give chase, dog, go after, track

go after with the intent to catch

"The policeman chased the mugger down the alley"

"the dog chased the rabbit"

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Quotations for dog

Love me, love my dog. [ Proverb ]

Fight dog, fight bear. [ Proverb ]

Blush like a black dog. [ Proverb ]

A dog is obeyed in office. [ William Shakespeare ]

Do not wake a sleeping dog. [ Italian Proverb ]

Every dog must have his day. [ Swift ]

The mad dog bites his master. [ Proverb ]

An old dog barks not in vain. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Beat the dog before the lion. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Dog (i.e. snarling) eloquence. [ Appius ]

He knows not a pig from a dog. [ Proverb ]

A bad dog never sees the wolf. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A dog's life, hunger and ease. [ Proverb ]

A hair of the dog that bit him. [ Proverb ]

A good dog deserves a good bone. [ Proverb ]

The scalded dog fears cold water. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A toiling dog comes halting home. [ Proverb ]

You scorn it as a dog does tripe. [ Proverb ]

Help the lame dog over the stile. [ Proverb ]

A dog is bold on his own dunghill. [ French Proverb ]

In the dusk (between dog and wolf). [ French ]

I will never keep a dog to bite me. [ Proverb ]

Cause not your own dog to bite you. [ Proverb ]

The bitch that I mean is not a dog. [ Proverb ]

Every dog is stout at his own door. [ Proverb ]

One dog can drive a flock of sheep. [ Proverb ]

Take a hair of the dog that bit you. [ Proverb ]

The hindermost dog catches the hare. [ Proverb ]

Look not for musk in a dog's kennel. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Ah me! what perils do environ
The man that meddles with cold iron!
What plaguy mischiefs and mishaps
Do dog him still with after-claps. [ Butler, Hudibras ]

Let dogs delight to bark and bite.
For God hath made them so;
Let bears and lions growl and fight.
For 'tis their nature to. [ Isaac Watts ]

And in that town a dog was found,
As many dogs there be,
Both mongrel, puppy, whelp and hound.
And curs of low degree. [ Oliver Goldsmith ]

Better a living dog than a dead lion. [ Proverb ]

It would make a dog break his halter. [ Proverb ]

An old dog does not bark for nothing. [ Italian Proverb ]

I'll never keep a dog and bark myself. [ Proverb ]

I will not keep a dog and bark myself. [ Proverb ]

A good bone never falls to a good dog. [ French Proverb ]

I have a dog of Blenheim birth.
With fine long ears and full of mirth;
And sometimes, running over the plain,
He tumbles on his nose:
But quickly jumping up again
Like lightning on he goes! [ Ruskin ]

Brag's a good dog, but dares not bite. [ Proverb ]

Strike the dog dead! it's but a critic. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

An ass was never cut out for a lap-dog. [ Proverb ]

You are afraid of the dog you never saw. [ Proverb ]

When the old dog barks he gives counsel. [ Proverb ]

I am misanthropos, and hate mankind,
For thy part, I do wish thou wert a dog.
That I might love thee something. [ William Shakespeare ]

When an old dog barks, one must look out. [ German Proverb ]

I pray thee let me and my fellow have
A hair of the dog that bit us last night. [ John Heywood ]

Man is not the prince of creatures,
But in reason; fail that, he is worse
Than horse or dog, or beast of wilderness. [ Field ]

An old dog can't alter his way of barking. [ Proverb ]

It is a good dog that can catch any thing. [ Proverb ]

A man may provoke his own dog to bite him. [ Proverb ]

The venom clamours of a jealous woman
Poison more deadly than a mad-dog's tooth. [ William Shakespeare ]

No dog is so bad but he will wag his tail. [ Italian Proverb ]

Many a dog is dead since you were a whelp. [ Proverb ]

It would vex a dog to see a pudding creep. [ Proverb ]

Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is better. [ Proverb ]

It is an ill dog that deserves not a crust. [ Proverb ]

Let Hercules himself do what he may,
The cat will mew, and dog will have his day. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]

Give a dog an ill name and his work is done. [ Proverb ]

It is an ill-bred dog that will beat a bitch. [ Proverb ]

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter. [ Portuguese Proverb ]

The dog that licks ashes trust not with meal. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

One barking dog sets all the street a-barking. [ Proverb ]

Have a care of a silent dog and a still water. [ Proverb ]

Better have a dog fawn upon you than bite you. [ Proverb ]

Every dog has its day, and every man his hour. [ Proverb ]

It is the marriage of a cat and a dog together. [ Proverb ]

There are more ways to kill a dog than hanging. [ Proverb ]

A dog will not cry if you beat him with a bone. [ Proverb ]

Take your thirst to the stream, as the dog does. [ Gaelic Proverb ]

Patience upon force is a medicine for a mad dog. [ Proverb ]

He that has nothing to spare must not keep a dog. [ Proverb ]

They are scarce of horses when two ride on a dog. [ Proverb ]

O happy unowned youths! your limbs can bear
The scorching dog-star and the winter's air,
While the rich infant, nursed with care and pain,
Thirsts with each heat and coughs with every rain! [ Gay ]

When a dog is drowning every one offers him drink. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

It is an easy thing to find a stick to beat a dog. [ Proverb ]

When the dog's dead, all his malice dies with him. [ Proverb ]

On one side a wolf besets you, on the other a dog. [ Horace ]

You have lost your own stomach, and found a dog's. [ Proverb ]

In the mouth of a bad dog falls often a good bone. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Into the mouth of a bad dog falls many a good bone. [ Proverb ]

To take the nuts from the fire with the dog's foot. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He that strikes my dog, would strike me if he durst. [ Proverb ]

The dog gnaws the bone because he cannot swallow it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Who hath no more bread than need must not keep a dog. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

It is an ill dog that is not worth the whistling for. [ Proverb ]

Who hath a wolf for his mate, needs a dog for his man. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

As a wolf is like a dog, so is a flatterer like a friend. [ Proverb ]

He that would hang his dog gives out first that he is mad. [ Proverb ]

If 'twere not for my cat and dog, I think I could not live. [ Ebenezer Elliott ]

If you eat a pudding at home, your dog shall have the skin. [ Proverb ]

Never was cat or dog drowned, that could but see the shore. [ Proverb ]

Flesh never stands so high but a dog will venture his legs. [ Proverb ]

That dog barks more out of custom than of care of the house. [ Proverb ]

While you trust to the dog the wolf slips into the sheep fold. [ Proverb ]

Tie a dog to a crab-tree, and he will never love verjuice more. [ Proverb ]

A covetous man is a dog in a wheel, that roasts meat for others. [ Proverb ]

If I had a dog so good for nothing as you are, I would hang him. [ Proverb ]

Trust your dog to the end; a woman - till the first opportunity. [ Proverb ]

Like Wood's dog, he will neither go to the church nor stay at home. [ Proverb ]

Take a hair of the same dog that bit you, and it will heal the wound. [ Proverb ]

A well-bred dog goes out when he sees them preparing to kick him out. [ Scotch Proverb ]

As lazy as Ludlam's dog, that leaned his head against the wall to bark. [ Proverb ]

Like a dog in a manger, you'll not eat yourself, nor let the horse eat. [ Proverb ]

When the dog is beaten out of the room, where will they lay their stink? [ Proverb ]

The wit of you, and the wool of a blue dog, would make a very good medley. [ Proverb ]

He that ties up another man's dog, shall have nothing left him but the line. [ Proverb ]

There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. [ Benjamin Franklin ]

Oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer-cakes, and hold-fast is the only dog. [ William Shakespeare ]

Like the dog in the manger, he will neither eat himself nor let the horse eat. [ Proverb ]

To excite a fierce dog to capture a lame rabbit is to attack a contemptible enemy. [ Chinese Proverb ]

Like the gardener's dog, that neither eats cabbage himself nor lets any body else. [ Proverb ]

Sometimes you are like the dog and cat, and sometimes like the monkey and his clog. [ Proverb ]

If you want a pretense to whip a dog, it is enough to say he eat up the frying-pan. [ Proverb ]

Kick a barking dog and he will bark the more. Never notice him, and he will shut up.

Among all animals, from man to the dog, the heart of a mother is always a sublime thing. [ A. Dumas pere ]

He that meddleth with strife belonging not to him is like one that taketh a dog by the ears. [ Bible ]

Two heads are better than one; quoth the woman, when she had her dog with her to the market. [ Proverb ]

The canine letter - the letter R. A growling dog will bare his teeth and growl the letter R.

The dog in the manger (that would not let the ox eat the hay which he could not eat himself).

Like the smith's dog, that sleeps at the noise of the hammers, and wakes at the crashing of teeth. [ Proverb ]

Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this, - one dog does not change a bone with another. [ Adam Smith ]

I would give nothing for the Christianity of a man whose very dog and cat were not the better for his religion. [ Rowland Hill ]

Truth is a good dog; but beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out. [ Coleridge ]

Better not take a dog on the space shuttle, because if he sticks his head out when you're coming home his face might burn up. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog standing on his hinder legs. It is not done well, but you wonder to see it done at all. [ Johnson ]

Man is, beyond dispute, the most excellent of created beings, and the vilest animal is a dog; but the sages agree that a grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man. [ Saadi ]

Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? Ay Sir! And the creature run from the cur? There thou might'st behold the great image of authority: a dog's obeyed in office. [ William Shakespeare ]

As friendship must be founded on mutual esteem, it cannot long exist among the vicious; for we soon find ill company to be like a dog, which dirts those the most whom he loves the best. [ Chatfield ]

The commonest man, who has his ounce of sense and feeling, is conscious of the difference between a lovely, delicate woman and a coarse one. Even a dog feels a difference in her presence. [ George Eliot ]

Stick to your aim; the mongrel's hold will slip. But only crow-bars loose the bull-dog's lip; Small as he looks, the jaw that never yields, Drags down the bellowing monarch of the fields. [ O. W. Holmes ]

A true critic, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon what the guests fling away, and consequently is apt to snarl most when there are the fewest bones. [ Swift ]

When the passengers gallop by as if fear made them speedy, the cur follows them with an open mouth; let them walk by in confident neglect, and the dog will not stir at all; it is a weakness that every creature takes advantage of. [ J. Beaumont ]

A man is known to his dog by the smell, to his tailor by the coat, to his friend by the smile; each of these know him, but how little or how much depends on the dignity of the intelligence. That which is truly and indeed characteristic of the man is known only to God. [ Ruskin ]

Whatever mitigates the woes or increases the happiness of others is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity. One should not quarrel with a dog without a reason sufficient to vindicate one through all the courts of morality. [ Goldsmith ]

One is more honest in youth, and to the age of thirty years, than when one has passed it. It is only after that age that one's illusions are dispelled. Until then, one resembles the dog that defends the dinner of his master against other dogs: after this period, he takes his share of it with the others. [ Chamfort ]

There was a proposition in a township there to discontinue public schools because they were too expensive. An old farmer spoke up and said if they stopped the schools they would not save anything, because every time a school was closed a jail had to be built. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. He'll never get fat. I believe it is better to support schools than jails. [ Mark Twain, "Public Education Association" Speech ]

Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners, forms accepted by the sense of all, can reach; the contradictors and railers at public and private tables, who are like terriers, who conceive it the duty of a dog of honor to growl at any passer-by, and do the honors of the house by barking him out of sight. [ Emerson ]

dog in Scrabble®

The word dog is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 5

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters dog:

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dog in Words With Friends™

The word dog is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters dog:

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Words within the letters of dog

2 letter words in dog (2 words)

3 letter words in dog (Anagrams) (2 words)

dog + 1 blank (6 words)

Words containing the sequence dog

Word Growth involving dog

Shorter words in dog

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Longer words containing dog

acrylamidoglycolic

aneroidograph aneroidographs

birddog birddogged

birddog birddogging

birddog birddogs

boondoggle boondoggled

boondoggle boondoggler boondogglers

boondoggle boondoggles

boondoggling

bulldog bulldogged bulldoggedness

bulldog bulldogger bulldoggers

bulldog bulldogging bulldoggings

bulldog bulldoggish bulldoggishly

bulldog bulldoggish bulldoggishness

bulldog bulldoggy

bulldog bulldogs

chilidog chilidogs

cladogram cladograms

corndog corndogs

coydog coydogs

dogberryism dogberryisms

dogcart dogcarts

dogcatcher dogcatchers

dogday dogdays

doge cladogenesis

doge cnidogenous

doge comedogenic

doge diamidogen

doge dogear dogeared

doge dogear dogearing

doge dogear dogears

doge doges

doge endogen endogenous endogenously

doge endogen endogens

doge pedogeneses

doge pedogenesis

doge pseudogeneral

doge pseudogeneric pseudogenerically

doge pseudogenerosity

doge pseudogenerous

doge pseudogenes

doge steroidogeneses

doge steroidogenesis

doge steroidogenic steroidogenical steroidogenically

doge tornadogenesis

dogface dogfaces

dogfight dogfighting

dogfight dogfights

dogfish dogfishes

dogfish dogfishs

dogfox dogfoxes

dogged birddogged

dogged bulldogged bulldoggedness

dogged doggedly

dogged doggedness bulldoggedness

dogged hotdogged

dogged watchdogged

doggerel doggereled

doggerel doggereler

doggerel doggerelism

doggerel doggerelist doggerelists

doggerel doggerelize doggerelized

doggerel doggerelize doggerelizer doggerelizers

doggerel doggerelize doggerelizes

doggerel doggerelizing

doggerel doggerelled

doggerel doggerelling

doggerel doggerels

doggie doggies

doggy bulldoggy

doghouse doghouses

dogleg doglegged

dogleg doglegging

dogleg doglegs

dogless doglessness

doglike

dogma dogmas

dogma dogmatic dogmatically

dogma dogmatic dogmatics

dogma dogmatic nondogmatic

dogma dogmatic undogmatic undogmatical

dogma dogmatisation

dogma dogmatise dogmatised

dogma dogmatise dogmatiser dogmatisers

dogma dogmatise dogmatises

dogma dogmatising

dogma dogmatism

dogma dogmatist dogmatists

dogma dogmatization

dogma dogmatize dogmatized

dogma dogmatize dogmatizer dogmatizers

dogma dogmatize dogmatizes

dogma dogmatizing

dognap dognapped

dognap dognapper dognappers

dognap dognapping dognappings

dognap dognaps

dogooder dogooders

dogpaddle dogpaddled

dogpaddle dogpaddler dogpaddlers

dogpaddle dogpaddles

dogpaddling

dogproof dogproofed

dogproof dogproofing

dogproof dogproofs

dogs birddogs

dogs bulldogs

dogs chilidogs

dogs corndogs

dogs coydogs

dogs dogsat

dogs dogsbodied

dogs dogsbodies

dogs dogsbody dogsbodying

dogs dogship dogships

dogs dogshore dogshores

dogs dogsick

dogs dogsit dogsits

dogs dogsit dogsitter dogsitters

dogs dogsit dogsitting

dogs dogsled dogsledded

dogs dogsled dogsledder dogsledders

dogs dogsled dogsledding

dogs dogsled dogsleds

dogs dogstail

dogs firedogs

dogs fogdogs

dogs guarddogs

dogs gundogs

dogs hotdogs

dogs housedogs

dogs lapdogs

dogs seadogs

dogs sheepdogs

dogs sundogs

dogs underdogs

dogs wardogs

dogs watchdogs

dogs waterdogs

dogtag dogtags

dogteeth

dogtooth

dogtrick dogtricks

dogtrot dogtrots

dogtrot dogtrotted

dogtrot dogtrotting

dogvane dogvanes

dogwatch dogwatches

dogwinkle dogwinkles

dogwood dogwoods

eidograph eidographs

endogamous

endogamy

endoglycosidase endoglycosidases

firedog firedogs

fogdog fogdogs

guarddog guarddogs

gundog gundogs

hotdog hotdogged

hotdog hotdogger hotdoggers

hotdog hotdogging

hotdog hotdogs

housedog housedogs

lapdog lapdogs

nondog nondogmatic

peptidoglycan

pseudoglioma pseudogliomas

pseudoglioma pseudogliomata

pseudoglobulin pseudoglobulins

pseudogout

rhipidoglossate

seadog seadogs

sheepdog sheepdogs

sundog sundogs

underdog underdogs

wardog wardogs

watchdog watchdogged

watchdog watchdogging

watchdog watchdogs

waterdog waterdogs