Dogling

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A little or young dog; a puppy.

    "The day she came home to find that our dogling had gone to live permanently with the man who spaded up our back yard it seemed for a time that there was no balm in Gilead."

Synonyms

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dogletdogletpuppypuppy

Example

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"The day she came home to find that our dogling had gone to live permanently with the man who spaded up our back yard it seemed for a time that there was no balm in Gilead."

Etymology

From dog + -ling.

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