house dog
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[edit]Noun
[edit]house dog (plural house dogs)
- A dog used to protect a house, a watchdog; (later also) a dog kept as a pet. [from 16th c.]
- Synonym: watchdog
- a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Summer”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:
- The house-dog, with the vacant greyhound, lies, / Out-stretch'd, and sleepy.