Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hole or kennel for a dog; a place fit only for dogs; a vile habitation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A place fit only for dogs; a vile, mean habitation or apartment.
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- noun A place fit only for
dogs ; avile ,mean habitation orapartment .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Murmuring very low in the rhythmical tone of one oppressed by the air, Mrs. Flushing began to wonder where they were to sleep, for they could not sleep downstairs, they could not sleep in a doghole smelling of oil, they could not sleep on deck, they could not sleep — She yawned profoundly.
The Voyage Out 2004
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Adventure lurks in every nook an 'slough an' doghole on the bay.
Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates Gordon [Illustrator] Grant 1918
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I wish you had had my dreams when I first came to this doghole, and tried to sleep among the dry seaweed.
Chapter XXXIV 1917
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Murmuring very low in the rhythmical tone of one oppressed by the air, Mrs. Flushing began to wonder where they were to sleep, for they could not sleep downstairs, they could not sleep in a doghole smelling of oil, they could not sleep on deck, they could not sleep -- She yawned profoundly.
The Voyage Out 1915
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Murmuring very low in the rhythmical tone of one oppressed by the air, Mrs. Flushing began to wonder where they were to sleep, for they could not sleep downstairs, they could not sleep in a doghole smelling of oil, they could not sleep on deck, they could not sleep -- She yawned profoundly.
The Voyage Out Virginia Woolf 1911
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"Into the doghole with him!" the warden commanded.
When Egypt Went Broke Holman Day 1900
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He continued to watch the man until the narrow door which opened from the yard, admitting to the doghole cells, swallowed up the convict and his guard.
When Egypt Went Broke Holman Day 1900
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'Get him out of this furnace and that doghole of a room,' said the doctor.
The History of David Grieve Humphry Ward 1885
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Upon which the noble Olaf sank dead; and forever quitted this doghole of a world, -- little worthy of such men as Olaf one sometimes thinks.
Early Kings of Norway Thomas Carlyle 1838
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With lands and gardens, at lefs price than here You hire a darkfome doghole by the year.
hernesheir commented on the word doghole
I hear tell a foxhole isn't much better.
December 8, 2010