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doghoused

doghoused adjective: synonym of in the doghouse (“subject to someone's anger and disapproval, especially one's spouse”).

Adjective

doghoused (not comparable)

  1. (informal) Synonym of in the doghouse (“subject to someone's anger and disapproval, especially one's spouse”).
    • […] gathering the bedding from the sofa like a doghoused husband, he'd make a spot for us while he went about his morning ablutions […]2013, Christopher Hacker, The Morels
    • 'I'm doghoused and I don't know why. She's in there bawling.'2014, John D. MacDonald, The Crossroads
    Synonyms:
    in the doghouse

Synonyms of doghoused

Origin of doghoused

From doghouse + -ed.

Questions about doghoused

What does doghoused mean?
Doghoused means synonym of in the doghouse (“subject to someone's anger and disapproval, especially one's spouse”).
What part of speech is doghoused?
Doghoused is an adjective.

Words near doghoused in the dictionary

  1. doghouse basses
  2. doghouse bassist
  3. doghouse bassists
  4. doghouse plot
  5. doghouse plots
  6. doghoused
  7. doghouses
  8. Doghramadjian
  9. Doghramadjians
  10. dogi
  11. Dogic

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