dogdoctor
dogdoctor is the alternative form of dog doctor.
Meaning of dog doctor
Noun
dog doctor (plural dog doctors)
- A veterinarian who specialises in dogs.
- A famous dog-doctor was ſent for, and undertook to cure the patient, provided he might carry him home to his own houſe; […]1771, [Tobias Smollett], “To Miss Lætitia Willis, at Gloucester”, in The Expedition of Humphry Clinker […], volume I, London: […] W. Johnston, […]; and B. Collins, […], →OCLC, page 119
- Synonyms:
- dogtor
- A dog who is also a doctor.
- As I saw my glorious, patient dog, my faithful companion in many a long, lone journey, my deliverer, humanly speaking, from many a dangerous blizzard storm, thus dying slowly before me, I did long for wise old Rover, the famous dog doctor of my wounded dogs in other days.1902, Egerton R[yerson] Young, My Dogs in the Northland, 5th edition, New York, N.Y.; Chicago, Ill.; Toronto, Ont.: Fleming H. Revell Company, pages 123–124
Forms of dogdoctor
| plural | dogdoctors |
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Questions about dogdoctor
- What is dogdoctor the alternative form of?
- Dogdoctor is the alternative form of dog doctor.
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