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View synonyms for sea dog

sea dog

[ see dawg, dog ]

noun

  1. Informal. a sailor, especially an old or experienced one.
  2. Informal. a pirate or privateer.


sea dog

noun

  1. an experienced or old sailor
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of sea dog1

First recorded in 1590–1600
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Example Sentences

The child of Finnish sea-folk who had drifted to Brest and died there, she had been adopted by an old Breton sea-dog and his wife.

The old man looks like a weather-beaten sea-dog in a south-wester—his Ladaki cap with its spreading flaps.

No elderly sea-dog will ever acknowledge to failing vision when he gazes at the level horizon he knows so well.

Need I describe how our noble old nautical sea-dog was received by the Mackerel Brigade?

The man who spoke was a rough, grizzled sea-dog, clad in an old jersey and tarpaulins.

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