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Lapdog   Listen
noun
Lapdog  n.  
1.
A small dog which is or can be fondled in the lap.
2.
One who does the bidding of another; a servile follower. (informal)





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"Lapdog" Quotes from Famous Books



... dock? I don't, and so I tell you. He isn't going to stand there—you may bet your life to that, and say I told you. If I can get this braying jackass, this leaking sieve, this trembling, yowking lady's lapdog out o' the way I ...
— VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea • David Christie Murray
... domestic animal; yet we have an account of one who was so domesticated as to feed from the hand, lay under a chair in a common sitting-room, and appear in every other respect as easy and comfortable in its situation as a lapdog. It now and then went out into the garden, but after regaling itself with the fresh air, always returned to the house as its proper habitation. Its usual companions were a greyhound and spaniel, with whom it spent its evenings, the whole three sporting and sleeping together on the same hearth. ...
— A Hundred Anecdotes of Animals • Percy J. Billinghurst


Words linked to "Lapdog" :   Canis familiaris, dog, domestic dog


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