puppy dog

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Even if you can't be a professional chef, you can at least talk like one with this vocabulary quiz.

Question 1 of 9

You may have read the word "simmer" in a recipe or two, but what does it really mean?

First recorded in 1585–95

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
On horseback you think yourself somebody, but you look like a puppy-dog.
The Fourth Estate, vol. 2|Armando Palacio Valds
She shut her eyes, then like a puppy-dog snuggling to its mother, turned and dug her round little nose into the pillow.
The Trimming of Goosie|James Hopper
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

If Pewee wants to put himself in as mean a crowd as yours, and be your puppy-dog to fight for you, let him come on.
The Hoosier School-boy|Edward Eggleston