Dogophile

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A lover of dogs; a cynophile. informal, rare

    "As a psychologist with a Ph.D. in cognitive science, as well as an ardent dogophile, Horowitz aims “to take an informed imaginative leap inside of a dog — to see what it is like to be a dog; what the world is like from a dog’s point of view.”"

Example

More examples

"As a psychologist with a Ph.D. in cognitive science, as well as an ardent dogophile, Horowitz aims “to take an informed imaginative leap inside of a dog — to see what it is like to be a dog; what the world is like from a dog’s point of view.”"

Etymology

From dog + -phile.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.