单词 | dog meat |
释义 | dog meatn. 1. a. Meat prepared for dogs; esp. offal, horseflesh, etc., cut into pieces; = dog's meat n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [noun] > pet-food > dog food cracona1300 crawkec1325 quarryc1330 croote1382 criton1388 crap1499 dog meat1505 dog's meat1555 cratchens1601 greaves1614 lap1743 dog biscuit1809 dog food1848 critling1851 cracklingc1865 puppy biscuit1895 kibble1965 1505 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1900) II. 475 To the Inglis doggar, for the dog met. 1771 G. Cartwright Jrnl. 3 Feb. in Jrnl. 16 Yrs. Coast of Labrador (1792) I. i. 90 I sent the Indians..with orders to proceed to Seal Island for some dog-meat. 1848 Times 10 Jan. 3 Wine is wine and soup is soup, even were the former only sloe juice and the latter a concoction of dogmeat. 1958 C. Achebe Things fall Apart viii. 61 Dimaragana..would not lend his knife for cutting up dog-meat because the dog was taboo to him. 1971 Times 27 Apr. 1/2 [The dogs] were fed once a day and shared four tins of dog meat and 2 lb. of biscuits. 1994 G. Paulsen Winterdance x. 171 My meat patties had thawed and sunk into the dog meat. b. In extended use: something resembling this. Frequently in to make dogmeat of = to make dog's meat of at dog's meat n. Phrases (cf. to make mincemeat of at mincemeat n. 2). ΚΠ 1886 Indiana (Pa.) Weekly Messenger 11 Aug. You've got to slip out o' this as quiet as a cat, or the Danites will make dog-meat of you. 1926 J. Black You can't Win xv. 200 You was a good bum, but you're dog meat now. 1960 P. Anderson High Crusade ix. 72 The clinching proof of my reasoning is, that I'll cut anyone who argues further into dogmeat. 1987 Toronto Star (Nexis) 20 Aug. f1 We all know what happens when you get sent to the Home For The Ugly... They make dog meat out of you. 2001 I. Sinclair Landor's Tower (2002) ii. ii. 150 If we breathed a whisper of this we were dog meat. 2. Dog's flesh used as food. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > flesh of other animals > [noun] ass flesha1398 goat's meat1593 dog's meat1655 mutton1711 dog meat1805 1805 W. Clark Jrnl. 23 Oct. in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1988) V. 327 The nativs not being fond of Selling their good fish, compells us to make use of Dog meat for food. 1854 J. G. Wood Sketches Animal Life 134 Another..feast, in which dog-meat takes a prominent part. 1948 B. Griffith Amer. Me iii. i. 257 They shared monkey, rat, and dog meat, and weevily rice. 2005 New Yorker 5 Sept. 131/1 Thit cho, or dog meat, is an expensive delicacy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1505 |
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