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dogwhip

dogwhip noun: a whip intended for use on dogs.

Noun

dogwhip (plural dogwhips)

  1. A whip intended for use on dogs.
    • Here the speaker took a dogwhip from his pocket...1862, Philip Gilbert Hamerton, A Painter's Camp in the Highlands, and Thoughts about Art
    • On one occasion it tried to creep under her petticoat and lick her, so she thrashed it with the dogwhip.1950, Wilhelm Stekel, Eden Paul, Technique of Analytical Psychotherapy

Verb

dogwhip (third-person singular simple present dogwhips, present participle dogwhipping, simple past and past participle dogwhipped)

  1. (rare, transitive) To beat with a dogwhip.
    • The officers cursed and dogwhipped their way through to fall into a ragged line before Raj where he waited with the signallers and Battalion standard; the companies fell in to the shouted commands of their NCOs […]2013, David Drake, S. M. Stirling, Hope Reborn

Forms of dogwhip

Noun
pluraldogwhips
Verb
third-person singular presentdogwhips
present participledogwhipping
past participledogwhipped
pastdogwhipped

Origin of dogwhip

From dog + whip.

Questions about dogwhip

What does dogwhip mean?
Dogwhip means a whip intended for use on dogs.
What part of speech is dogwhip?
Dogwhip can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of dogwhip?
The plural of dogwhip is dogwhips.

Words near dogwhip in the dictionary

  1. dogwater
  2. dogwear
  3. dogweed
  4. dogwhelk
  5. dogwhelks
  6. dogwhip
  7. dogwhipped
  8. dogwhipping
  9. dogwhips
  10. dogwhistle
  11. dogwhistles

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