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ˈhouse-train, v.
[train v.1]
trans. To train (a domestic animal or infant) to be clean in the house. Also transf., esp. = house-break v. 2 transf.; and fig.
1924W. J. Locke Coming of Amos vii. 89 If you hadn't been house-trained by your excellent mother I should say that you've been making a beast of a night of it. 1928Punch 25 Apr. 455/1 It [sc. a cheque] is house-trained and was clean about the bank. 1930Kipling Thy Servant a Dog 70 It are that dash-Toby-Dog! C'm with, and house-train him! 1937A. Huxley Ends & Means xii. 180 The work of the late Dr. Suttie, whose book, The Origins of Love and Hatred, contains an interesting chapter on the effects of early house-training upon the emotional life of human beings. 1939S. Spender tr. Toller's Pastor Hall i. 41 Goethe wasn't quite house-trained either, you know. First place he was a Freemason, and second too much of a cosmopolitan. 1944N. Streatfeild Myra Carrol 100 Birds aren't ever house trained. 1950B. Russell Unpop. Ess. vii. 127 Some boys never learn to be what, in animals, is called ‘house-trained’. 1955M. Hastings Cork & Serpent xvii. 243 After thirty years of marriage, I haven't been able to house-train him yet. 1956A. Huxley Adonis & Alphabet 155 It is easy to house-train a cat or a dog. 1958[see billetee]. 1959Elizabethan Apr. 22/2 Mr. Rochester has a lot of the Wild Man in him... But he is also a good deal more house-trained than Heathcliff. 1961Listener 26 Oct. 645/2 We house-train puppies on a similar basis. 1969Auden City without Walls 63 Rumours ran through the city That the Tsar's bodyguard Was not house-trained. 1969Times 11 July 20/5 (Advt.), Capable girl, willing help run..Highland fishing cottage and two house trained small boys. 1973J. Wainwright Devil You Don't 37 You house-trained him, when he was a kid. Trained him to use the totty. Trained him in table-manners. |