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dog's soup

dog's soup noun: rainwater.

Noun

dog's soup (uncountable)

  1. (informal) Rainwater.
  2. (informal) Drinking water.

Origin of dog's soup

Coined in the 19th century for rainwater and shifted to drinking water by the 1930s.

Questions about dog's soup

What does dog's soup mean?
Dog's soup means rainwater.
What part of speech is dog's soup?
Dog's soup is a noun.

Words near dog's soup in the dictionary

  1. dog's letter
  2. dog's life
  3. dog's mercury
  4. dog's nose
  5. dog's sleep
  6. dog's soup
  7. dog's tongue
  8. dog's tongues
  9. dog's tooth
  10. dog's tooth violet
  11. dog's tooth violets

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