Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A dog used to hunt game birds; a gun dog.
- n. Informal One that bird-dogs.
- n. A scout, especially in baseball.
Wiktionary
- n. A dog used in shooting to retrieve the dead birds, especially an English pointer.
- n. A tout
- v. intransitive To watch closely.
- v. transitive To seek out.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a gun dog trained to locate or retrieve birds
Etymologies
- bird + dog (Wiktionary)
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Lists
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metaphoric references to dogs
As an ongoing part of my project, Dogs in Metaphor and Idiom, Illustrated, (www.metaphordogs.org) I am continually adding terms. If you know a term that fi...
dog, alpha male, at bay, bark, bird dog, bitch, bitchin, bloodhound, bulldog, canaille, canines, cerberus and 131 more...
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dogs and their relatives
dog dogs and more dogs anything
I can think of ,canids and their
relatives
my favourite African wild dog
all have 42 teethaffenpinscher, akita, alan, aland, alant, alopecoid, apso, bandog, barbet, basenji, basset, bawtie and 355 more...
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Animalia Wordia
Words or short phrases with animal names in them. Since I already have a dedicated list for 'monkey' words I shall leave them out of this one for the moment.
paper tiger, pigeon-hearted, lion-hearted, sacred cow, chicken heart, fraidy cat, scaredy-cat, snake oil, can of worms, snake pit, rat's nest, stool pigeon and 114 more...
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nfrank's Words
antediluvian, equivocate, inchoate, denouement, effulgent, edify, endemic, palimpsest, apropos, circumnavigate, circumlocution, cognoscente and 484 more...
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B is for Blue Canary
My B Words
bugbear, bette davis eyes, backstroke, barney, babushka, babycakes, backscratcher, bad news bears, balderdash, ballyhoo, baloney, bamboozle and 150 more...
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Animal Animalia
Animals that are described or defined by other animals
catbird, catfish, whale shark, dogfish, tiger shark, rat snake, bird dog, horsefly, lionfish, bullfrog, chicken hawk, elephant seal and 12 more...
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