dogsicle en · NOUN
Etymology
From dog + -sicle.
Meanings
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(humorous, informal) A cold or frozen dog.
If this had been Noriega's old powerful glory days, my Jazzy could have ended up a dogsicle.
2004, Cindy Adams, The Gift of Jazzy, page 220:Though you weren't cold, you were shivering like a dogsicle.
2010, Terry Bain, You Are a Dog: Life Through the Eyes of Man's Best Friend, page 28:My fur catches the flakes like Velcro and I freeze into a dogsicle.
2009, Berkeley Breathed, chapter 12, in Flawed Dogs: The Novel: The Shocking Raid on Westminster:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| dogsicles | Number=Plur | lexicographic |