dawg

[ dawg, dog ]

noun

, Slang.

1. an informal, playful spelling of dog:

   Their doormat says, “Welcome to the dawg pound.”

   I’d let that sleeping dawg lie if I were you.

2. guy; man; fellow; buddy (also used as a term of address):

   I don’t think so, dawg, but that’s just my opinion.

   You lucky dawg, you!

Word History and Origins

Origin of dawg¹

First recorded in 1845–50, as a dialectal variant of dog ( def ); 1930–35 dawg fordef 1; 2000–05 dawg fordef 2

Example Sentences

A limited number of medical patients will be able to purchase “Chunky Diesel” or “Alien Dawg” for just $100.

From The Daily Beast

Newsflash Nard-dawg, unplanned pregnancy is sometimes a good thing.

From The Daily Beast

MC Phife Dawg, meanwhile, tearfully championed the doc to a rousing standing ovation at that debut Sundance screening.

From The Daily Beast

Flo was not just mediocre: she was catastrophically tragic, tone-deaf, screechy and, as Randy Jackson would say, “pitchy, dawg!”

From The Daily Beast

But of all the panel, it is the Dawg who has truly reached his fork in the road.

From The Daily Beast

He just got a good holt–a shore enough diamond hitch–on that thirst-parlour dawg, and chawed.

From Project Gutenberg

They'd rather fight en a yaller dawg likes fo' to worry a hambone.

From Project Gutenberg

The best of 'em, a grand sire, was the very spit of that little dawg sitting up on that there bench.

From Project Gutenberg

He was a very clever "little dawg," but I don't think he ever reached such a pitch of intelligence as to practice "by hisself."

From Project Gutenberg

I seen de perjections ob it an' it fair mak' ma mouf run water lak' a dawg's.

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