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dogtrot

dogtrot noun: a steady trotting motion similar to that of a dog.

Noun

dogtrot (plural dogtrots)

  1. A steady trotting motion similar to that of a dog.
  2. (Southern US) A breezeway, open passageway, or open hallway between two sections of a house.
    • Old Billy Dill and his ugly wife and son are sitting together in the dogtrot.1970, Donald Harington, Lightning Bug
    • The dogtrot was protected from the rain and, because its front and back were open, the Bernoulli principle provided a cooling effect ...2007, Allen George Noble, Traditional Buildings: A Global Survey of Structural Forms and Cultural Functions (Architecture), I.B. Tauris, →ISBN, page 34
  3. (Southern US) A type of house with an open breezeway or hallway between two sections of a house.
    • One Appalachian solution to the problem of adding needed living space to an existing small cabin was the dogtrot, sometimes called the dogrun, possum trot, two pens-and-a-passage, double house, or erroneously the double pen.2007, Allen George Noble, Traditional Buildings: A Global Survey of Structural Forms and Cultural Functions (Architecture), I.B. Tauris, →ISBN, page 33

Verb

dogtrot (third-person singular simple present dogtrots, present participle dogtrotting, simple past and past participle dogtrotted)

  1. (intransitive) To move at the pace of a dogtrot.
    • The stewardess released us like a pack of noisy school kids and I dogtrotted toward the gate.1989, Sue Grafton, "E" is for Evidence (Fiction), Crimeline, →ISBN

Adjective

dogtrot (not comparable)

  1. (Southern US) Having an open breezeway or hallway between two sections of a house.
    • If America can claim any significant development in log construction, it might be the dogtrot cabin, … Henry Glassie believes that the dogtrot form developed in the southern Tennessee Valley area ...1977, Charles van Ravenswaay, The Arts and Architecture of German Settlements in Missouri, reprint edition (History), University of Missouri Press, published 2006, →ISBN, page 131

dogtrot meaning in Urdu

dogtrot in Urdu

کتا چال

Forms of dogtrot

Noun
pluraldogtrots
Verb
third-person singular presentdogtrots
present participledogtrotting
past participledogtrotted
pastdogtrotted

Origin of dogtrot

From Middle English dogge trot; equivalent to dog + trot.

Questions about dogtrot

What does dogtrot mean?
Dogtrot means a steady trotting motion similar to that of a dog.
What is dogtrot in Urdu?
Dogtrot in Urdu is کتا چال. See Dogtrot meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is dogtrot?
Dogtrot can be a noun, a verb or an adjective.
What is the plural of dogtrot?
The plural of dogtrot is dogtrots.

Words near dogtrot in the dictionary

  1. dogtopia
  2. dogtor
  3. dogtors
  4. dogtown
  5. dogtowns
  6. dogtrot
  7. dogtrots
  8. dogtrotted
  9. dogtrotting
  10. dogturd
  11. dogturds

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dogtrot (page history and authors); dogtrot (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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