Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Scraps and refuse of meat used as food for dogs; especially, inferior meat set apart by a butcher to be sold for such use.
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Examples
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But it is a mortal sin to make us men into dog's-meat, and to hunt us with foreign bloodhound varmint.
Cromwell Alfred B. Richards
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"Now," said Mr. Graves, when I had shut the door, "where's the dog's-meat man?"
The Case of Jennie Brice Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917
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"Now," said Mr. Graves, when I had shut the door, "where's the dog's-meat man?"
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She stopped to buy her dinner, to which she added five cents 'worth of dog's-meat, but the milliner's door was passed coldly by.
Peak and Prairie From a Colorado Sketch-book Anna Fuller 1884
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Why, we had the very best of cooking; not boiled tag and rag, but nice stews and roasts and hashes, when other men were growling over a dog's-meat dinner.
Begumbagh A Tale of the Indian Mutiny George Manville Fenn 1870
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For the conqueror had sold him to a Moorish dog's-meat man.
The Bon Gaultier Ballads Theodore Martin 1862
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"Ho there! coachmen and grooms; carry off this dog's-meat to its stall!"
Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore William Ralston Shedden Ralston 1858
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And they sailed many days as in a floating hell, hot, miserable, and cursing; the scanty meal was flung to them like dog's-meat, and they lapped the putrid water from a pail; gang by gang for an hour they might pace the smoking deck, and then and thence were driven down to fester in the hold for three-and-twenty more.
The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849
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'That's what I call a self-evident proposition, as the dog's-meat man said, when the housemaid told him he warn't a gentleman.'
The Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens 1841
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When Judith died, Joe, the dog's-meat man, said I war all the better for it, and that she left I a treasure to bring up the urchin.
Paul Clifford — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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