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Examples

  • I knew that the Teutonic Knight "Psalms" in Nevsky are dog-Latin.

    Flea at USC. Ann Althouse 2008

  • It only hastens the death of dog-Latin; we must preserve "e.g.", must we not?

    languagehat.com: WHEN A LANGUAGE DIES. 2005

  • I tried to tell him in a mixture of broken English and dog-Latin that I intended to give him the honour of my company.

    Letters to His Friends Forbes Robinson

  • He enjoys himself thoroughly while in health, and when he is sick a veterinary surgeon feels his pulse, and prescribes for him in dog-Latin!

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 Various

  • Mr. Hallam, in his _Literature of Europe_, vol. i., seems to have been disgusted with the monkish dog-Latin and bald jokes, not recollecting that this was a necessary and essential part of the design.

    Notes and Queries, Number 38, July 20, 1850 Various

  • Latin was grammatical, but very like dog-Latin for all that.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 Various

  • That is, I propose the substitution of "catalytic" for "creative," despite the fact that "catalytic" is an unfamiliar word, and suggests the dog-Latin of the seminaries.

    Prejudices : first series, 1919

  • In our loose modern debates they are lumped together; but Greek learning was the growth of this time; there had always been a popular Latin, if a dog-Latin.

    A Short History of England 1905

  • I think that was the expression, but, as it is not dog-Latin, I am not sure.

    The Reminiscences Of Sir Henry Hawkins Brampton, Henry H 1904

  • -- "While I wrote that dog-Latin myself," said Brother Copas, musing, forgetful that he, the author, was lingering on the stage from which he ought to have removed himself three minutes ago with the rest of the crowd.

    Brother Copas Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

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  • (noun) - (1) Barbarous Latin, such as was formerly used by lawyers in their pleadings. Now applied to "medical Latin."

    --John Hotten's Slang Dictionary, 1887

    (2) Also kitchen-, bog-, garden-, or apothecaries'-Latin.

    --John Farmer's Slang and Its Analogues, 1905

    January 16, 2018