dawg
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See also: DAWG
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (US, UK, General Australian) enPR: dôg, IPA(key): /dɔːɡ/
Audio (General Australian): (file)
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /dɑɡ/
- Rhymes: -ɔːɡ
Noun
[edit]dawg (plural dawgs)
- Pronunciation spelling of dog.
- That dawg won't hunt.
- (chiefly US, slang) Dude, bud, pal, used to address a close male friend.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:friend
- Sup, dawg.
- 2014, “0 to 100 / The Catch Up”, performed by Drake:
- All up in my phone, lookin' at pictures from the other night / She gon' be upset if she keep scrollin' to the left, dawg
- 2017, Joseph Barnes Phillips, Big Foot ...and Tiny Little Heartstrings:
- I'm not usually on African food, but the smell of that jollof is peng right now my dawg!
Usage notes
[edit]dawg, rather than dog, may be used for one of two reasons:
- To emphasise dialect. In some North American English dialects, the /ɔ/ sound is strengthened to /ɔə/, which is quite noticeable to North American English speakers who do not speak such a dialect.
- To distinguish (and emphasise a distinction) between "dog", the animal, and "dawg", the slang word that is a friendly term of address. Dog can be used disparagingly in English, and it carries disparaging connotations in many other languages. As such, there is often a desire to distinguish the term of address from the common noun.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]slang: dude, bud, pal
Further reading
[edit]- “dawg”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “dawg”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- (cot–caught merger)
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