Crossword clues for lapdog
lapdog
- Pekingese, e.g
- Small canine
- Maltese, e.g
- Yorkie, for example
- Small toy
- Pekingese or Shih Tzu
- Peke, e.g
- Obsequious follower
- House pet
- Cuddly companion
- Yes-man's kin
- Toy, perhaps
- Toy poodle, e.g
- Small pet — sycophant
- Small house pet
- Shih Tzu, e.g
- Pomeranian, perhaps
- Pomeranian or Pekinese
- Pom or Peke
- Pekingese or Chihuahua
- Peke or Yorkie
- One with the yips?
- Lhasa apso, e.g
- Great Dane it's not
- Compact canine
- Canine cuddler
- Pomeranian, for one
- Pooch that perches
- Shameless yes-man
- Maltese, e.g.
- Pomeranian, e.g.
- Peke or Pom
- Sycophantic follower
- A dog small and tame enough to be held in the lap
- Toy poodle, e.g.
- Chihuahua, e.g.
- Pekingese, e.g.
- Californian officers go back for instrument
- California police try to return pampered pet
- Small pampered pooch
- Small pampered pet
- Plod randomly round Austria's capital with good person in attendance
- Person effectively controlled by another
- Perhaps Pluto and friend upset Chihuahua, say
- Pampered pet
- Devoted attendant paid in the end, after rejection
- Pomeranian, e.g
- Servile follower
- Chihuahua, e.g
- Small pooch you can hold while sitting down
- Small pet canine
- Household pet
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lapdog \Lap"dog`\, n.
A small dog which is or can be fondled in the lap.
One who does the bidding of another; a servile follower.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
alt. 1 A dog which is sufficiently small and tame to be held in the lap for long durations. 2 (context figuratively usually derogatory English) One who is exceedingly obedient, unquestioning, and submissive to another party. n. 1 A dog which is sufficiently small and tame to be held in the lap for long durations. 2 (context figuratively usually derogatory English) One who is exceedingly obedient, unquestioning, and submissive to another party.
WordNet
n. a dog small and tame enough to be held in the lap
Usage examples of "lapdog".
At the last instant the huge animal dodged lithely around him, and the historian saw that it held in its mouth a lapdog, its eyes dark pools of terror.
The yapping lapdog shrieked in alarm and raced off, bounding like a ragged ball of mud and straw.
She also shrewdly concluded that if Caesar had given his wife a lapdog, Calpurnia would now be surrounded by puppies.
Rushton continued his monologue throughout the rescue, occasionally referring to Scamp as a dustbin and a lapdog, expressions that he accompanied with a grin at Selina.
Beside him lay the scrawny Hengese lapdog that Truth said was named Roach.
The Semk seemed eager to close on the Malazan lapdogs, and were paying in blood for their desire.
Nobel laureates are his lapdogs and the United States Army has been tied up and delivered as a gift to him.
My mother pictured a daughter as a counterinsurgent: a fellow lover of lapdogs, a seconder of proposals to attend the Ice Capades.
Your Grace, himself, le Chevalier Marc Marcel de Montjoie de Vires, and one solitary FitzGerald, a guardsman named Sean something or other, who will be about as outclassed on such a council as a lapdog among as many boarhounds.
Their wool coats were unbuttoned in the warming day, and fit them like gunnysacks on lapdogs.
Chinese wallpaper and on lapdogs and satin and on the cabriolet in which Lord John now rode towards the cavalry and battle.
It's also no surprise that cane growers are turning for a bailout to their favorite slobbering lapdogs, the state politicians in Tallahassee.
Gesler's two dogs trotted past, the huge cattle dog trailing the Hengese Roach as if the hairy lapdog carried its own leash.
Of course - any natives suspected of loyalty would be fair game - including the gora-colonel's lapdog, as Ram Mangal had charmingly called me.
He was hardly back in his bed, thinking hard, when Madame Flaubert oozed in, her lapdog panting behind her.