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dogwhip en · NOUN

Etymology

From dog + whip.

Meanings

  1. A whip intended for use on dogs.
    • On one occasion it tried to creep under her petticoat and lick her, so she thrashed it with the dogwhip. 1950, Wilhelm Stekel, Eden Paul, Technique of Analytical Psychotherapy:
    • Here the speaker took a dogwhip from his pocket... 1862, Philip Gilbert Hamerton, A Painter's Camp in the Highlands, and Thoughts about Art:

Forms

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dogwhips Number=Plur lexicographic

Hypernyms

whip

dogwhip en · VERB

Etymology

From dog + whip.

Meanings

  1. (rare, transitive) To beat with a dogwhip.
    • The officers cursed and dogwhipped their way through to fall into a ragged line before Raj where he waited with the signallers and Battalion standard; the companies fell in to the shouted commands of their NCOs […] 2013, David Drake, S. M. Stirling, Hope Reborn:

Forms

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dogwhips Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
dogwhipped Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
dogwhipped Tense=Past lexicographic
dogwhipping Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic