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dog man en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A man who likes dogs or prefers dogs as pets, often as opposed to liking cats.
   • Now. I am not a cat man, but a dog man. Indeed, if I had my way. I would own an English bulldog, which I consider the king of breeds. 1942, Stephen Benet, The Australian Women's Weekly, page 2:
   • Major Anstruther did not care much for cats: he was a dog-man himself. 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 618:
   • If you were a total dog man like Joe, and a one-man dog like Cass, the relationship developed a mutual dependency, as close as any marriage, of minds and hearts. 2010, Gordon Thorburn, Cassius - The True Story of a Courageous Police Dog:
   • Elton is a dog man, not a cat man. 1996, Claude Bernardin, Tom Stanton, Rocket Man: Elton John from A-Z, page 30:
   • "You a dog man or a cat man?" "Dog, I guess." 2010, John Verdon, Think of a Number:
2. A man who breeds, handles, or sells dogs; a greyhound or hunting dog handler.
   • Of course there is a sprinkling of wealthy dog men, but in the main it is working-class hopefuls who supply the fields[.] 1966, James Holledge, The Great Australian Gable, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 124:

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Translations (2)

sh кучкар (man who likes dogs) · sh kučkar (man who likes dogs)