doghoused
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- (informal) Synonym of in the doghouse (“subject to someone's anger and disapproval, especially one's spouse”)
- 2013, Christopher Hacker, The Morels:
- […] gathering the bedding from the sofa like a doghoused husband, he'd make a spot for us while he went about his morning ablutions […]
- 2014, John D. MacDonald, The Crossroads:
- 'I'm doghoused and I don't know why. She's in there bawling.'