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doghoused en · ADJ

Etymology

From doghouse + -ed.

Meanings

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

Synonyms

in the doghouse