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lap-doggy en · ADJ

Etymology

From lap dog + -y.

Meanings

1. Resembling or characteristic of a lap dog.
   • He wrote appreciatively of the usefulness and good conduct of the watch-dog, a splendid creature, much bigger than I am, with the lap-doggy name of Mou-Mou. 1920, [Elizabeth von Arnim], In the Mountains, Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, page 48:
   • I bent down and scratched Duffy behind his perky black ears. He leapt up on my unstable lap and rubbed his head against my chest. He never does anything so lap-doggy. 2017 [2016], Susan Dunlap, Out of Nowhere: A Darcy Lott Mystery (The Darcy Lott Series; 7), Sutton: Severn House Publishers, →ISBN, page 74:

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