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Definition of Dog house
1. Noun. Outbuilding that serves as a shelter for a dog.
Definition of Dog house
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of doghouse) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dog House
Literary usage of Dog house
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Roraima and British Guiana: With a Glance at Bermuda, the West Indies, and by John Whetham Boddam-Whetham (1879)
"... CHAPTER V. TO SANTA CRUZ—BASSIN—A DOG-HOUSE—FRUIT STEALING "THIBET" TREES—GREEN
HERONS—PRETTY SCENERY—WEST END—SANTA CRUZ V. ST. ..."
2. History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States by William Dunlap (1834)
"Jarvis took paints and brush, and wrote on tins dog-house, in front and on ...
They went— and the painter took out of the dog-house a puppy which had not ..."
3. Yseldon a Perambulation of Islington by Thomas Edlyne Tomlins (1858)
"The dog house Bar was the name given to a turnpike in Old Street, close by the
site of a dog-house, or place for keeping the city hounds, at a time when the ..."
4. Sporting Magazine edited by [Anonymus AC02751662] (1802)
"At the hither end was the dog-house (to enclose the dogs that were to run the
course), which was attended by two men, one of whom stood at the door to slip ..."
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