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puppy
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n. 1 A young dog, usually cute and playful. 2 A young rat. 3 A young seal. 4 (context slang usually in the plural English) A woman’s breast. 5 (context informal English) A (generic) thing; particularly something that is a nuisance; a sucker. 6 (context ...
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Puppy is an independent Australian feature film starring Nadia Townsend , Bernard Curry , Sally Bull, and Terence Donovan. The film was written and directed by Irish-born, Australian Kieran Galvin , who also directed the short films: The Burning Boy, Mono-Winged ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., "woman's small pet dog," of uncertain origin but likely from Middle French poupée "doll, toy" (see puppet ). Meaning shifted from "toy dog" to "young dog" (1590s), replacing Middle English whelp . In early use in English puppet and puppy were ...
Usage examples of puppy.
They even acquired a Great Dane, a four-month-old puppy, big and affectionate, which they named Thora.
I once saw her gallop down a steep hill in the Arboretum to escape a dog, a German shepherd puppy that had trotted up to her, its tail wagging, for a head pat.
Rosalind murmured in an awed tone, holding up the wriggling puppy and peering into his black button eyes.
Josie reached to the coffee holder and flipped a doggie ear backward on the Beanie puppy.
She picked up the nearest puppy, who had blundered up against her foot and was nosing it hopefully.
Langdon moved off to continue his inspection, the babbling docent followed like a love-starved puppy.
As Langdon moved off to continue his inspection, the babbling docent followed like a love-starved puppy.
Jack, the wayward puppy and lastly at her injured duelist, all of whom stood in the open doorway.
Unlike mass-produced cars, however, mass-produced pedigree puppies can come with serious hereditary problems, running the gamut from hip dysplasia to early blindness, brought on by multigenerational inbreeding.
He recalled how the street seemed inanely alive with the horrid cheer that haunted zoos and menageries, how the cries of bird sellers, of puppy wallahs and cat peddlers intermingled and created an eerie and disturbing echolalia, at once mocking of and mocked by the chatter of their caged and staring stock in trade.
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Like lightning the great beasts wheeled upon her, and I looked to see her torn to pieces before I could reach her side, but instead the creatures slunk to her feet like puppies that expect a merited whipping.
Death descended on the puppy so suddenly that the expression of happiness was still on its mouth and in its eyes long after Grenouille had bedded it down in the impregnating room on a grate between two greased plates, where it exuded its pure doggy scent, unadulterated by the sweat of fear.
At these words my ill-temper boiled aver, and, in the tone of voice one uses to put down a puppy, I replied that the Republic of Venice was strong enough to do without the protection of France or of any other power, and that during the thirteen centuries of its existence it had had many friends and allies but no protectors.
In the middle of the darkest time, Hassel came in one morning and announced that Else had eight puppies.