单词 | housebroken |
释义 | housebroken in American English (ˈhaʊsˌbroʊkən) adjective 1. trained to defecate and urinate outdoors or in a special place indoors so that it can live in a house said of a pet dog, cat, etc.2. made docile and conventional housebroken in American English (ˈhausˌbroukən) adjective (of a pet) trained to avoid excreting inside the house or in improper places Word origin [1895–1900; house + broken]This word is first recorded in the period 1895–1900. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: apothecaries' measure, backwind, hit-and-run, neon, slapstickExamples of 'housebroken' in a sentence |
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