Dog vs. Dawg: What's the Difference?
Dog and Dawg Definitions
Dog
A domesticated carnivorous mammal (Canis familiaris syn. Canis lupus subsp. familiaris) occurring as a wide variety of breeds, many of which are traditionally used for hunting, herding, drawing sleds, and other tasks, and are kept as pets.
Dawg
A male friend or acquaintance; a fellow.
Dog
Any of various carnivorous mammals of the family Canidae, such as the dingo.
Dawg
Used to address a man or boy
What's up, dawg?.
Dog
A male animal of the family Canidae, especially of a fox or a domesticated breed.
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Dawg
Pronunciation spelling of dog.
That dawg won't hunt.
Dog
Any of various other animals, such as the prairie dog.
Dawg
Dude, bud, pal, used to address a close male friend.
Sup, dawg.
Dog
A person
You won, you lucky dog.
Dog
A person regarded as contemptible
You stole my watch, you dog.
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Dog
A person regarded as unattractive or uninteresting.
Dog
Something of inferior or low quality
"The President had read the speech to some of his friends and they told him it was a dog" (John P. Roche).
Dog
An investment that produces a low return or a loss.
Dog
Dogs(Slang) The feet.
Dog
See andiron.
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Dog
(Slang) A hot dog; a wiener.
Dog
Any of various hooked or U-shaped metallic devices used for gripping or holding heavy objects.
Dog
(Astronomy) A sundog.
Dog
Totally; completely. Often used in combination
Dog-tired.
Dog
To track or trail persistently
"A stranger then is still dogging us" (Arthur Conan Doyle).
Dog
To hold or fasten with a mechanical device
"Watertight doors and hatches were dropped into place and dogged down to give the ship full watertight integrity" (Tom Clancy).
Dog
To be persistently or inescapably associated with
Questions about his youthful indiscretions dogged him throughout his career.
Dog
To be recurrently or persistently in the mind; haunt
Despair dogged him in his final years.
Dog
A mammal of the family Canidae:
Dog
The species Canis familiaris (sometimes designated Canis lupus familiaris), domesticated for thousands of years and of highly variable appearance because of human breeding.
The dog barked all night long.
Dog
Any member of the family Canidae, including domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, jackals, foxes, and their relatives extant and extinct; canid.
Dog
A male dog, wolf, or fox, as opposed to a bitch or vixen.
Dog
The meat of this animal, eaten as food:
Did you know that in South Korea, they eat dog?
Dog
A person:
Dog
A dull, unattractive girl or woman.
She’s a real dog.
Dog
(slang) A man, guy, chap.
You lucky dog!
Dog
(derogatory) Someone who is cowardly, worthless, or morally reprehensible.
Come back and fight, you dogs!
You dirty dog.
Dog
(slang) A sexually aggressive man.
Dog
A mechanical device or support:
Dog
Any of various mechanical devices for holding, gripping, or fastening something, particularly with a tooth-like projection.
Dog
A click or pallet adapted to engage the teeth of a ratchet wheel, to restrain the back action.
Dog
A metal support for logs in a fireplace.
The dogs were too hot to touch.
Dog
(cartomancy) The eighteenth Lenormand card.
Dog
A hot dog: a frankfurter, wiener, or similar sausage; or a sandwich made from this.
Dog
Underdog.
Dog
Foot.
Dog
(Cockney rhyming slang) (from "dog and bone") Phone or mobile phone.
Dog
One of the cones used to divide up a racetrack when training horses.
Dog
(informal) Something that performs poorly.
That modification turned his Dodge hemi into a dog.
Dog
(film) A flop; a film that performs poorly at the box office.
Dog
(transitive) To pursue with the intent to catch.
Dog
(transitive) To follow in an annoying or harassing way.
The woman cursed him so that trouble would dog his every step.
Dog
To fasten a hatch securely.
It is very important to dog down these hatches.
Dog
To watch, or participate, in sexual activity in a public place.
I admit that I like to dog at my local country park.
Dog
To intentionally restrict one's productivity as employee; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished.
A surprise inspection of the night shift found that some workers were dogging it.
Dog
(transitive) To criticize.
Dog
To divide (a watch) with a comrade.
Dog
(slang) Of inferior quality; dogshit.
Dog
A quadruped of the genus Canis, esp. the domestic dog (Canis familiaris).
Dog
A mean, worthless fellow; a wretch.
What is thy servant, which is but a dog, that he should do this great thing?
Dog
A fellow; - used humorously or contemptuously; as, a sly dog; a lazy dog.
Dog
One of the two constellations, Canis Major and Canis Minor, or the Greater Dog and the Lesser Dog. Canis Major contains the Dog Star (Sirius).
Dog
An iron for holding wood in a fireplace; a firedog; an andiron.
Dog
A grappling iron, with a claw or claws, for fastening into wood or other heavy articles, for the purpose of raising or moving them.
Dog
An ugly or crude person, especially an ugly woman.
Dog
A hot dog.
Dog
To hunt or track like a hound; to follow insidiously or indefatigably; to chase with a dog or dogs; to worry, as if by dogs; to hound with importunity.
I have been pursued, dogged, and waylaid.
Your sins will dog you, pursue you.
Eager ill-bred petitioners, who do not so properly supplicate as hunt the person whom they address to, dogging him from place to place, till they even extort an answer to their rude requests.
Dog
A member of the genus Canis (probably descended from the common wolf) that has been domesticated by man since prehistoric times; occurs in many breeds;
The dog barked all night
Dog
A dull unattractive unpleasant girl or woman;
She got a reputation as a frump
She's a real dog
Dog
Informal term for a man;
You lucky dog
Dog
Someone who is morally reprehensible;
You dirty dog
Dog
A smooth-textured sausage of minced beef or pork usually smoked; often served on a bread roll
Dog
A hinged catch that fits into a notch of a ratchet to move a wheel forward or prevent it from moving backward
Dog
Metal supports for logs in a fireplace;
The andirons were too hot to touch
Dog
Go after with the intent to catch;
The policeman chased the mugger down the alley
The dog chased the rabbit
