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dog

გამოთქმა: /dɒg/

განმარტებულია dog სიტყვის თარგმნა სინონიმები

არსებითი სახელი

Universal
  • 1a domesticated carnivorous mammal that typically has a long snout, an acute sense of smell, non-retractile claws, and a barking, howling, or whining voice.
    • Canis familiaris, family Canidae (the dog family); probably domesticated from the wolf in the Mesolithic period. The dog family also includes the wolves, coyotes, jackals, and foxes
  • a wild animal of the dog family.
  • the male of an animal of the dog family, or of some other mammals such as the otter: [as modifier]:a dog fox
  • (the dogs) British informal greyhound racing:a night at the dogs
  • Canis familiaris, family Canidae (the dog family); probably domesticated from the wolf in the Mesolithic period. The dog family also includes the wolves, coyotes, jackals, and foxes
  • 2 informal an unpleasant, contemptible, or wicked man: he was interrupted by cries of ‘dirty dog!’ come out, Michael, you dog!
  • [with adjective] dated used to refer to a person of a specified kind in a tone of playful reproof, commiseration, or congratulation:your historian is a dull dog you lucky dog!
  • used to refer to someone who is abject or miserable, especially because they have been treated harshly:I make him work like a dog Rab was treated like a dog
  • informal, offensive an unattractive woman.
  • Australian/NZ informal an informer or traitor:one day she’s going to turn dog on you
  • informal, chiefly North American a thing of poor quality:a dog of a film
  • informal a horse that is slow or difficult to handle.
  • 3used in names of dogfishes, e.g. sandy dog, spur-dog.
  • 4a mechanical device for gripping.
  • 5 (dogs) North American informal feet.
  • 6 (dogs) Horse Racing, US barriers used to keep horses off a particular part of the track.

ზმნა

Universal
  • 1follow (someone) closely and persistently:photographers seemed to dog her every step
  • (of a problem) cause continual trouble for:the twenty-nine-year-old has constantly been dogged by controversy
  • 2 (dog it) informal, chiefly North American act lazily; fail to try one’s hardest: Eric had a reputation for dogging it a little
  • 3grip (something) with a mechanical device: [with object and complement]:she has dogged the door shut

dog and bone

British rhyming slang a telephone.

dog-and-pony show

North American informal an elaborate display or presentation: the department never really had a chance to get its dog-and-pony show under way

dog eat dog

used to refer to a situation of fierce competition in which people are willing to harm each other in order to succeed:New York is a dog-eat-dog society

dog in the manger

a person who prevents others from having or using things even though he or she does not need them: [as modifier]:your cold, grudging, dog-in-the-manger sort
[alluding to the fable of the dog that lay in a manger to prevent the ox and horse from eating the hay]

a dog's age

North American informal a very long time:the best I’ve seen in a dog’s age

dogs bark, but the caravans move on

proverb people may make a fuss, but it won’t change the situation.

the dog's bollocks

British vulgar slang a person or thing that is the best of its kind.

a dog's dinner (or breakfast)

British informal a poor piece of work; a mess:we made a real dog’s breakfast of it

a dog's life

an unhappy existence, full of problems or unfair treatment:he led poor Amy a dog’s life

the dogs of war

literary the havoc accompanying military conflict: the strategy would let loose the dogs of nuclear war
[from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar ( iii. 1. 274)]

dressed (up) like a dog's dinner

British informal wearing ridiculously smart or ostentatious clothes: look at her, dressed up like a dog’s dinner

every dog has his (or its) day

proverb everyone will have good luck or success at some point in their lives.

give a dog a bad name and hang him

proverb it’s very difficult to lose a bad reputation, even if it’s unjustified.

go to the dogs

informal deteriorate shockingly:the country is going to the dogs

like a dog with two tails

used to emphasize how delighted someone is:‘Is he pleased?’ ‘Like a dog with two tails.’

not a dog's chance

no chance at all: you wouldn’t have a dog’s chance a month ago I didn’t give him a dog’s chance

put on the dog

North American informal behave in a pretentious or ostentatious way:we have to put on the dog for Anne Marie

throw someone to the dogs

discard someone as worthless:young people look upon the older person as someone to be thrown to the dogs

you can't teach an old dog new tricks

proverb you cannot make people change their ways.

why keep a dog and bark yourself?

proverb why pay someone to work for you and then do the work yourself?.

dogdom

noun

doggish

adjective

doglike

adjective

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