puppy dog

Historical Examples

• He struggled frantically, but felt like a puppy-dog in the paws of a grizzly.

  The Spoilers of the Valley

  Robert Watson

• It was like a puppy-dog pointing a little bird in the grass.

  Fairy Prince and Other Stories

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

• The sense is—'and he could romp about, exactly as if he were a puppy-dog.'

  Chaucer's Works, Volume 5 (of 7) -- Notes to the Canterbury Tales

  Geoffrey Chaucer

• He was lying on his back, with his paws in the air, and whining very like a puppy-dog.

  The Emerald City of Oz

  L. Frank Baum

• Across the road were meat, fish, vegetable, and puppy-dog shops.

  Peeps Into China

  E. C. Phillips