| 单词 | dog keeping |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdog keeping (a) Objective and objective genitive, as dog driver, dog driving, dog fancier, dog fancying, dog keeping, dog seller, dog skinner, dog stealer, dog stealing, dog washing, etc. See also dog-breaker n. at Compounds 3a, dog keeper n., dogwhipper n. ΚΠ 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Castracane, a dog gelder. 1770 Gentleman's Mag. 40 164 To punish the dog-stealer, or the man charged with the crime of dog-stealing. c1785 (title) The dog skinner. 1821 P. Egan Life in London ii. iii. 221 The dog-fancier in the corner..sidled up to the Swells. 1845 Ainsworth's Mag. 7 5 I'm the only honest man in the dog-fancyin' line. 1876 J. Greenwood Low-life Deeps 16 Bitten..with the dog-keeping mania. 1889 G. Stables Dog Owners' Kennel Compan. i. 10 On dog-washing days. 1895 R. Kipling Second Jungle Bk. 148 The boy knows something of dog-driving. 1898 Daily News 17 Jan. 8/5 The Admiral..described how the two saved the life of their dog-driver..when he ‘was rapidly freezing’. 1910 H. G. Wells Hist. Mr. Polly ix. 301 Drowning superfluous kittens, dog-fancying as required. 1987 L. Murray Coll. Poems (1991) 241 The done fox suddenly underfoot among dog-urgers. < as lemmas |
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