dog – English noun declension

English noun forms of dog

Noun: dog
Singulardog
Pluraldogs

Sample Sentences

  • The dog barked all night long.
  • […] I beg again to state, in my humility, that I am Only a Dog. Such a little dog too. […] I am very white, very woolly, very pretty indeed; covered all over with snowy curls, and having two bright black eyes and a black shiny tip to my nose like patent leather. [1870, Ouida [pseudonym; Maria Louise Ramé], “Introduction. His First Paper.”, in Puck: His Vicissitudes, Adventures, Observations, Conclusions, Friendships, and Philosophies. […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, page 2:]
  • The preposterous altruism too![…]Resist not evil. It is an insane immolation of self—as bad intrinsically as fakirs stabbing themselves or anchorites warping their spines in caves scarcely large enough for a fair-sized dog. [1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVI, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:]
  • When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him.[…]. The captive made no resistance and came not only quietly but in a series of eager little rushes like a timid dog on a choke chain. [1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:]
  • This includes the development of hyena-like bone crushers (Osteoborus and Borophagus), a large bone-crushing hunting dog (Aelurodon), and another borophagine frugivorous dog (Carpocyon). [1989, John L. Gittleman, Carnivore Behavior, Ecology, and Evolution, page 561:]
  • Entirely disregarding sex, Ch. Searchlight has a beautiful Cocker head, but as he is a dog, his head is too fine and far too much upon the bitchy order. [1908, Dogdom, volume 9, page 337, column 1:]
  • Firstly, he was there to encourage and assist the hounds (a scratch pack – mostly dog-hounds drafted from fox-hound kennels because they were over-sized) […] [1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin, published 2013, page 149:]
  • Did you know that they eat dog in parts of Asia?
  • She’s a real dog.
  • You lucky dog!
  • Come back and fight, you dogs!
  • You dirty dog.
  • Blasphemous dog, I wonder that the earth / Doth cease from renting vnderneath thy feete, / To swallow vp those cankred corpes of thine. [1599, Robert Greene, Alphonsus, King of Aragon, act 3:]
  • And Hazael ſaid, But what, is thy ſeruant a dogge, that he ſhould doe this great thing? [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Kings 8:13, column 1:]
  • [A]t last Mahomed's stood straight up upon its vertebræ, and glared at me through its empty eyeholes, and cursed me with its grinning jaws, because I, a dog of a Christian, disturbed the last sleep of a true believer. [1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:]
  • Then, with an ugly oath, “Get up, you dog!” and, drawing back his booted foot, he kicked Tarzan heavily in the side. [1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 83:]
  • DJ Paul is a dog; one you do not trust. [2005, “Stay Fly”, in Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, Willie Hutchinson (lyrics), Most Known Unknown, performed by Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, and MJG), Sony BMG:]
  • Whenever possible, let the tree support the weight of the chainsaw. Pivot the saw, using the saw's dogs (spikes) as a fulcrum. [2009, ForestWorks, Chainsaw Operator's Manual, page 41:]
  • The dogs were too hot to touch.
  • In the great old-fashioned fireplace behind the high iron dogs a log-fire crackled and snapped. [1902, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles:]
  • Congressmen gleefully wolfed down every imaginable version of the hot dog – smoked kielbasas, jumbo grillers, Big & Juicy's, kosher dogs and spiced dogs […] [1994 July 21, Faye Fiore, “Congress relishes another franking privilege: Meat lobby puts on the dog with exclusive luncheon for lawmakers – experts on pork”, in Los Angeles Times:]
  • My dogs are barking! (My feet hurt!)
  • You look good in those shoes with your dogs out! (You look good wearing shoes that show your toes!)
  • My dog is dead. (My mobile-phone battery has run out of charge.)
  • He gives his dog-Mota or dog-Fiji in exchange for Pigeon English. [1885, Robert H. Codrington, The Melanesian Languages, page 143:]
  • That modification turned his Dodge hemi into a dog.
  • Blue was released, and as Redford had predicted, it was a dog. [1969, Ski, volume 34, number 4, page 121:]
  • "When The Alamo was coming out, the word of mouth on it was that it was a dog," Chase said. [2012, Ronald L. Davis, Duke: The Life and Image of John Wayne:]
  • To this succeeded the Snaplance ^([sic]), in which a motion was given to the dog, or cock, and a movable plate of steel, called the frizel, or hammer, was placed vertically above the pan to receive the action of the flint. [1832, The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia, volume 10, page 164:]
  • Hmm, see the girl with the red dress on
  • She can do the dog all night long. [1964, “What'd I Say”, Ray Charles (lyrics), performed by Elvis Presley:]
  • Just like the dog but not so low
  • Like the hully gully but not so slow
  • Now baby swim, baby do the swim. [1964, “C'mon and Swim”, Thomas Coman and Sylvester Stewart (Sly Stone) (lyrics), performed by Bobby Freeman:]
  • We had a lovely dance—luckily it was a slow number. I don't think Mr. Lincoln would have been up to the dog or a fast twist. [1967, Trudy Baker, Rachel Jones, Donald Bain (uncredited), Coffee, Tea, or Me?: The Uninhibited Memoirs of Two Airline Stewardesses, New York: Bantam Books, page 173:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Old English [Term?]?
3. Proto-Germanic *-gô
4. Proto-West Germanic *-gō
5. Old English -ga
6. Old English dogga
7. Middle English dogge
8. English dog
9. Inherited from Middle English dogge (akin to Scots dug), from Old English dogga, docga, of uncertain origin.
10. The original meaning seems to have been a common dog, as opposed to a well-bred one, or something like 'cur', and perhaps later came to be used for stocky dogs. Possibly a pet-form diminutive with suffix -ga (compare frocga (“frog”), *picga (“pig”)), appended to a base *dog-, *doc- of unclear origin and meaning. One possibility is Old English dox (“dark, swarthy”) (compare frocga from frox). Another proposal is that it derives from Proto-West Germanic *dugan (“to be suitable”), the origin of Old English dugan (“to be good, worthy, useful”), English dow, Dutch deugen, German taugen. The theory goes that it could have been an epithet for dogs, commonly used by children, meaning "good/useful animal". Another one is that it is related to *docce (“stock, muscle”), from Proto-West Germanic *dokkā (“round mass, ball, muscle, doll”), whence English dock (“stumpy tail”).
11. In 14th-century England, hound (from Old English hund) was the general word for all domestic canines, and dog referred to a subtype resembling the modern mastiff and bulldog. By the 16th century, dog had become the general word, and hound had begun to refer only to breeds used for hunting. In the 16th century, the word dog was adopted by several continental European languages as their word for mastiff.
12. Despite similarities in forms and meaning, it is not related to Mbabaram dog. See: Middle English Nouns 'dogge', Middle English Nouns 'dogge', Old English Nouns 'dogga', Old English Nouns 'dugan', English Nouns 'dow'.

Verbs referencing "dog"

German Nouns Dogge, Russian Nouns дог, Italian Nouns dogo, Dutch Nouns dog, Polish Nouns dog, Romanian Nouns dog, English Nouns Dogo Argentino, Finnish Nouns doggi, Swedish Nouns dogg.