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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
doghouse
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He staked the doghouse into the ground with three stakes, all he had.
▪ I didn't play much, I kind of got in the coach's doghouse.
▪ Ralph built Grover a doghouse with windows and a hinged door.
▪ Snoopy lies on the top of his doghouse almost covered in newly fallen snow.
▪ So why was he in the doghouse?
▪ William Floyd was in the doghouse.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
doghouse

1610s, from dog (n.) + house (n.). Originally a kennel; the backyard type, for a single animal, is late 19c. Figurative sense of "disgrace" is from 1932.

Wiktionary
doghouse

n. 1 Any small house or structure or enclosure used to house a dog. 2 A structure of small size, similar to a doghouse, but offering useful shelter for a human. 3 Mechanically, an equipment cover with an opening, with a shape resembling a doghouse. 4 (context nautical English) A difficult or demoralizing situation.

WordNet
doghouse
  1. n. outbuilding that serves as a shelter for a dog [syn: kennel, dog house]

  2. an idiomatic term for being in disfavor; "in the doghouse"

Wikipedia
Doghouse

A doghouse or dogshed is a small shed commonly built in the shape of a house, a shelter intended for a dog. It is a structure in which a dog is kept and it is intended to provide a safe place to dogs outdoors. Doghouses are also used for other pets, e.g. rabbits in enclosed yards.

Doghouse (disambiguation)

A doghouse or dog house is a small shed commonly built in the shape of a little house intended for a dog

Doghouse may also refer to:

  • Doghouse (film), a 2009 British comedy horror film
  • Doghouse Records, a record label
  • Dog House (TV series), a 1990-91 Canadian comedy program
  • "Doghouse", a song by Neil Young from the album Bluenote Café
  • "Doghouse", a 1994 single from No Doubt's album The Beacon Street Collection
  • A traffic light with turn arrow indicators whose form resembles a doghouse
  • Dunay radar which has a NATO reporting name of Dog House
Doghouse (film)

'Doghouse ' is a 2009 British slapstick comedy horror splatter film. A group of male friends travel to a remote village in England for a 'boys' weekend'. Upon their arrival, they find out that all the women in the town have been transformed into ravenous man-eaters — literally.

Usage examples of "doghouse".

A large open area was available to kennel the dogs, and I told the men to arrange the crates, which would serve as doghouses from now on, in rows at least forty feet apart.

In the next yard to the left of Geronimo, Orson was squatting behind a large, tumbledown doghouse.

The ones on the left were bearing down on Orson, who was picking them off from behind the doghouse.

All would yet have gone for nothing—the triple coincidence of Bronowski's appearance at campus, Lament's youthful cryptogrammic enthusiasm, the social pressure of an attractive young lady—were it not for the fact that it was the next day that Lamont saw Hallam and placed himself firmly and, as he eventually found, permanently, in the doghouse.

Feature articles appeared in magazines about Doghouses Unlimited and its elusive founder, Robert Redford, who refused to be interviewed and in fact could not be found.

Statistics were gathered showing that not only did seven percent of the American public have doghouses, but also that 99.

Each doghouse relayed the same signal in an unending chain that gradually spread all over the world-- wherever doghouses could be found.

And instead of standing out in the snow, they curled up in the warmth of their doghouses and slept.

Each doghouse relayed the same signal in an unending chain that gradually spread all over the world—wherever doghouses could be found.

Dogs barked up and down Hilltop Street, roused from their doghouses by the commotion.

On each side of the tumbling Rio Temchic, small huts, not much larger than doghouses, lined the stream.

The man could have gone to his wife and she would have tapped that old biddy aunt of hers whose tight little ass was lined with hundred-dollar bills, and Delevan would have spent some time in the doghouse, but she would have let him out in time.

Eric unfastened the padlock that held the doghouse door, and Gumbo launched himself at them like a jet-black, bristling drag racer.

Scenting a chance for profit, the government slapped a huge export tax on the doghouses.

Akbar was lauded the next day, then suffered in Carpathia's doghouse for more than three weeks because the boss was having trouble "getting useful information out of Region 7.