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workdog

workdog is the alternative form of work dog.

Meaning of work dog

Noun

work dog (plural work dogs)

  1. A working dog; a dog breed created to perform specific tasks (e.g. herding).
    • Wisps of straw stuck in the workdog’s coat, mud was on her feet, she reeked of cow.1944, Emily Carr, “The Cousins’ Bobtails”, in The House of All Sorts

Forms of workdog

pluralworkdogs

Questions about workdog

What is workdog the alternative form of?
Workdog is the alternative form of work dog.

Words near workdog in the dictionary

  1. workcation
  2. workcations
  3. workcest
  4. workday
  5. workdays
  6. workdog
  7. workdogs
  8. worke
  9. worked
  10. worked around
  11. worked at

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Adapted from Wiktionary: workdog (page history and authors); work dog (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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