DOGS

"DOGS" is a plural of: dog.

Date "DOGS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Dream Interpretation

Food & Agriculture

Literature

Medicine

Mining

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

DOGS

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonym: DOGS

Abrogation

Countermand, counter order; do away with; sweep away, brush away; throw overboard, throw to the dogs; scatter to the winds, cast behind.

Adversity

Go downhill, go to rack and ruin; (destruction), go to the dogs; fall, fall from one's high estate; decay, sink, decline, go down in the world; have seen better days; bring down one's gray hairs with sorrow to the grave; come to grief; be all over, be up with; bring a wasp's nest about one's ears, bring a hornet's nest about one's ears.

Caution

Think twice, look before one leaps, count the cost, look to the main chance, cut one's coat according to one's cloth; feel one's ground, feel one's way; see how the land lies; (foresight); wait to see how the cat jumps; bridle one's tongue; reculer pour mieux sauter; (prepare); let well alone, let well enough alone; let sleeping dogs lie, ne pas reveiller le chat qui dort.

Destruction

Verb: be destroyed; perish; fall to the ground; tumble, topple; go to pieces, fall to pieces; break up; crumble to dust; go to the dogs, go to the wall, go to smash, go to shivers, go to wreck, go to pot, go to wrack and ruin; go by the board, go all to smash; be all over, be all up, be all with; totter to its fall.

Deal destruction, desolate, devastate, lay waste, ravage gut; disorganize; dismantle; (render useless); devour, swallow up, sap, mine, blast, bomb, blow to smithereens, drop the big one, confound; exterminate, extinguish, quench, annihilate; snuff out, put out, stamp out, trample out; lay in the dust, trample in the dust; prostrate; tread under foot; crush under foot, trample under foot; lay the ax to the root of; make short work of, make clean sweep of, make mincemeat of; cut up root and branch, chop into pieces, cut into ribbons; fling to the winds, scatter to the winds; throw overboard; strike at the root of, sap the foundations of, spring a mine, blow up, ravage with fire and sword; cast to the dogs; eradicate.

Disuse

Throw aside; (relinquish); make away with; (destroy); cast overboard, heave overboard, throw overboard; cast to the dogs, cast to the winds; dismantle; (Render useless).

Failure

Limp, halt, hobble, fall, tumble; lose one's balance; fall to the ground, fall between two stools; flounder, falter, stick in the mud, run aground, split upon a rock; beat one's head against a stone wall, run one's head against a stone wall, knock one's head against a stone wall, dash one's head against a stone wall; break one's back; break down, sink, drown, founder, have the ground cut from under one; get into trouble, get into a mess, get into a scrape; come to grief; (adversity); go to the wall, go to the dogs, go to pot; lick the dust, bite the dust; be defeated; have the worst of it, lose the day, come off second best, lose; fall a prey to; succumb; (submit); not have a leg to stand on.

Poverty

Verb: be poor; Adjective: want, lack, starve, live from hand to mouth, have seen better days, go down in the world, come upon the parish; go to the dogs, go to wrack and ruin; not have a penny; (money), not have a shot in one's locker; beg one's bread; tirer le diable par la queue; run into debt; (debt).

Refreshment

Refreshment stand; refreshments; ice cream, cold soda, soda pop, hot dogs (food).

Rejection

Repudiate, scout, set at naught; fling to the winds, fling to the dogs, fling overboard, fling away, cast to the winds, cast to the dogs, cast overboard, cast away, throw to the winds, throw to the dogs, throw overboard, throw away, toss to the winds, toss to the dogs, toss overboard, toss away; send to the right about; disclaim; (deny); discard; (eject), (have done with).

Relinquishment

Discard, cast off, dismiss; cast away, throw away, pitch away, fling away, cast aside, cast overboard, cast to the dogs, throw aside, throw overboard, throw to the dogs, pitch aside, pitch overboard, pitch to the dogs, fling aside, fling overboard, fling to the dogs; cast to the winds, throw to the winds, sweep to the winds; put away, turn away, sweep away; jettison; reject.

Remedy

Phr. aux grands maux les grands remedes; Dios que da la llaga da la medicina; para todo hay remedio sino para la muerte; temporis ars medicina fere est; " the remedy is worse than the disease "; " throw physic to the dogs, I'll none of it ".

River

Rain hard, rain in torrents, rain cats and dogs, rain pitchforks; pour with rain, drizzle, spit, set in; mizzle.

Warfare

Verb: arm; raise troops, mobilize troops; raise up in arms; take up the cudgels; take up arms, fly to arms, appeal to arms, fly to the sword; draw the sword, unsheathe the sword; dig up the hatchet, dig up the tomahawk; go to war, wage war, 'let slip the dogs of war'; cry havoc; kindle the torch of war, light the torch of war; raise one's banner, raise the fire cross; hoist the black flag; throw away, fling away the scabbard; enroll, enlist; take the field; take the law into one's own hands; do battle, give battle, join battle, engage in battle, go to battle; flesh one's sword; set to, fall to, engage, measure swords with, draw the trigger, cross swords; come to blows, come to close quarters; fight; combat; contend; battle with, break a lance with.

Crosswords: DOGS

Dogs and cats living together (Ghostbusters; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis)

Oh! Dogs! Sure (Snatch.; writing credit: Guy Ritchie)

Draw people smiling, dogs running, rainbows (The Sixth Sense; writing credit: M. Night Shyamalan)

Dogs eat their own feces (Pulp Fiction; writing credit: Quentin Tarantino; Roger Avary)

These dogs will cost you an extra two dollars ahead (Big Man on Campus; writing credit: Allan Katz)

Where the dogs of society howl (Goodbye Yellow Brick Road; performing artist: Elton John)

No barking from the dogs, no smog (It Was a Good Day; performing artist: Ice Cube)

Suckin' on chili dogs outside the Tastee Freeze ("Jack and Diane"; performing artist: John Cougar Mellencamp)

Where my dogs at bark wit me now (Bow Wow [That's My Name]; performing artist: Lil Bow Wow)

The wild dogs cry out in the night (Africa; performing artist: Toto)

The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast. [About Russia] (references; author: Bob Hope)

Dogs have masters. Cats have staff. (references; author: unknown)

Plague-bearing prairie dogs. (references; author: unknown)

Hot Dogs for Gauguin (1972)

Mad Dogs & Englishmen (1971)

Patrol Dogs of the United States Air Force (1968)

Under Sea Dogs (1968)

Tuktu and His Eskimo Dogs (1966)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Grrr!: The Complete Guide to Understanding and Preventing Aggressive Behavior in Dogs (reference)

• Agility Training: The Fun Sport for All Dogs (reference)

• Aiken Dogs (reference)

• Airedale Terrier (Murray, Julie, Dogs. Set V.) (reference)

• Dogs in Knits: 17 Projects for Our Best Friends (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• All About Dogs (reference)

• Dogs Annual (reference)

• Dogs In Canada (reference)

• Dogs In Review (reference)

• Dogs Life (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Snow Dogs (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Rain Dogs (reference)

• Unda Dogs 2 (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Nancy Drew: Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake (reference)

• Fetco International A Dogs Life Frame 3 X 3 (Wood) (reference)

• Battlezone 64: Rise of the Black Dogs (reference)

• Pedigree Dogs Photo CD (reference)

• Sea Dogs (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Puerto Rico reported 75 rabies cases during 1999, including 59 mongooses, 11 dogs, one cat, as well as 80 cases during 2000 that included 59 mongooses, 15 dogs and one cat. Credit: CDC.

Gypsy the Watchman - or where dogs rode before pickup trucks Triangulation party of E. W. Eickelberg. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Using pack dogs after leaving the railroad near Cantwell Spring reconnaissance between upper Cook Inlet and Fairbanks Triangulation party of William M. Scaife. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Even the dogs thought it was cold. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Dogs on deck at British Base F. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Halo and sun dogs. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Let sleeping dogs lie unless the car starts to back up. Apparently there was no leash law at Puntarenas as dogs seemed to roam about the town at will. Credit: Small World.

A female mountain lion was treed by dogs in the Organ Mountains of southern NM. The next year this lion raised 2 kittens. Credit: Jack Barnitz.

Two Wyoming Prairie Dogs. Credit: Unknown.

Prairie Dogs. Credit: Bob Savannah.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

According to this, bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness; for those of its members who work, acquire nothing, and those who acquire anything, do not work. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The bayings of the dismal dogs of war answered each other

Suddenly the dogs started up from the dust and listened

We observe cats and dogs acquiring the same second nature

' and let slip the dogs of war, That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion men, groaning for burial

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Dogs and cats are not known to carry hantavirus. (references)

Many flea combs made for cats and dogs are also effective. (references)

Keep vaccinations up-to-date for all dogs, cats and ferrets. (references)

Economic History

Taiwan

With rising incomes and strong western influences, dogs are now a symbol of affluence. (references)

Austria

As pet food meets only about one third of dietary needs of Austria's dogs and cats, Austria's pet food market should increase considerably in the next few years. (references)

Brazil

According to the "Gazeta Mercantil" newspaper (July 17, 2000 and May 2, 2001), the Brazilian pet population was estimated at 25 million dogs, 11 million cats, 4 million domestic birds and 500,000 aquariums. (references)

Human Rights

Afghanistan

Clearance rates and safety have increased for clearance teams assisted by dogs. (references)

Russia

On June 1, federal forces using trained dogs detained, beat, and attacked 30 men; two of the detainees disappeared. (references)

South Africa

On September 23, in Pretoria, officers from the Pretoria SAPS dog unit reportedly used their dogs to attack two Mozambican immigrants, Charles Ndlovu and Stanley Dluwayo. (references)

Trade

Kenya

Cats and dogs are issued with an import license only after a veterinary surgeon has certified the animal to have been vaccinated against rabies and has no symptoms of any contagious disease. (references)

Pakistan

The exports are subject to certain conditions, such as registration with the Export Promotion Bureau, and permission from government departments: cotton, rice, metals, arms, ammunition and explosives, complete rocket and unmanned air vehicle systems, nuclear substances, precious and semi-precious stones and gold jewelry, poppy seeds, urea, pet dogs and cats, and wild boars, including meat and hides. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "DOGS": bark of dogs ♦ barking dogs never bite ♦ barking of dogs ♦ cast to the dogs ♦ cats and dogs ♦ dead dogs don't bite ♦ dogs dinner ♦ dogs of war ♦ ehrlichiosis of dogs ♦ fight like dogs ♦ give to the dogs ♦ go to the dogs ♦ gone to the dogs ♦ hot dogs food ♦ it is raining cats and dogs ♦ it rains like cats and dogs ♦ it's raining cats and dogs ♦ let sleep dogs lie ♦ let sleeping dogs lie ♦ pack of dogs ♦ pour cats and dogs ♦ put on the dogs ♦ rain cats and dogs ♦ raining cats and dogs ♦ survey of dogs ♦ the dogs ♦ throw to the dogs ♦ to give to the dogs ♦ To go to the dogs ♦ to the dogs ♦ to throw to the dogs. Additional references.

Beginning with "DOGS": dogs-are, dogs-meat, dogs-tooth.

Ending with "DOGS": hot-dogs, lap-dogs, pye-dogs, two-dogs.

Containing "DOGS": two-dogs-dying.

Albanian

stërvit qen (go to the dogs), rrënohem (go to pot, go to the devil, go to the dogs, take a knock), po bie shi i foryë (it's raining cats and dogs). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تلف (blight, bungle, burn, consume, corrode, damage, destroy, deteriorate, deterioration, go bad, go off, go to the dogs, harm, hash, impair, mangle, molder, moulder, ravage, ruin, scourge, spoil, spoilage, spoiling, take out, total, waste away), ‏تخسر (go bad, go to the dogs), ‏الكلب الميت لا يعض (dead dogs don't bite). (various references)

Bulgarian 

вали като из ведро (raining cats and dogs), отивам по дяволите (go to pot, go to the dogs, go west), пропадам (abyss, collapse, fail, fall through, go, go to the dogs, go under, go wrong, lose). (various references)

Chinese 

豢 (feed pigs and dogs, to rear), 狺 (snarling of dogs). (various references)

Czech

rvát se jako psi (fight like dogs), leje tam jako z konve (it's raining cats and dogs), leje jako z konve (it rains like cats and dogs), jít od desíti k pìti (go to the dogs), co tì nepálí (let sleeping dogs lie). (various references)

Danish

tang (tongs), pincet (assayer's tongs, corn tongs, forceps, pliers, spring calipers, tweezer, tweezers, watchmaker's tweezers), kaeber, hundefamilien (foxes, wolves), bidetang (forceps, pliers, tweezers). (various references)

Dutch

tang (shrew, vixen, Xanthippe), klemhaak (cramp, forceps, pliers, tweezers), klauwkoppeling (clutch shaft, dog), klauw (claw, talon), honden (foxes, wolves). (various references)

Esperanto

pluvegi (pour, rain cats and dogs). (various references)

Faeroese

oysregna (pour, rain cats and dogs). (various references)

Finnish

pihdit (forceps, nippers, pliers, tongs), hohtimet (pincers), epäkeskotarraaja. (various references)

French

tenailles, pinces, mâchoire excentrique, clebs (dog), canidés. (various references)

Frisian

eazje (pour, rain cats and dogs). (various references)

German

Hunde (canine, hounds). (various references)

Greek 

κυνίδες (foxes, wolves), πένσες (forceps, pliers, tweezers), πένσα (pliers), λαβίδα (nipper, pinchers, tongs, tweezers), τανάλιες (forceps, pliers, tweezers). (various references)

Hebrew 

ללכת לאבדן (be destroyed, be lost, go to the dogs, perish), להתקלקל (deteriorate, go bad, go to the dogs, go wrong, perish, spoil). (various references)

Hungarian

agárverseny. (various references)

Icelandic

rigna mjög mikið (pour, rain cats and dogs). (various references)

Italian

cani. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

野犬狩り (rounding up stray dogs), 薮をつついて蛇を出す (let sleeping dogs lie), 犬猿の仲 (like cats and dogs, loggerheads), 猟犬座 (Canes Venatici, the Hunting dogs), 狸囃子 (racoon dogs drumming on their stomachs), 愛犬家 (lover of dogs). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たぬきばやし (racoon dogs drumming on their stomachs), りょうけんざ (Canes Venatici, the Hunting dogs), あいけんか (lover of dogs), やぶをつついてへびをだす (let sleeping dogs lie), やけんがり (rounding up stray dogs), けんえんのなか (like cats and dogs, loggerheads). (various references)

Manx

moddee yiooghey (gluttonous dogs), moddee shangey (lean dogs), moddee clistagh (performing dogs). (various references)

Pig Latin

ogsday.(various references)

Portuguese

pinça (claw, cochleare, crimper, crowbill, forcep, pincers, pinchers, pliers, tongs, tweezers), garras (gripe), canídeos (foxes, wolves), alicate (nipper, nippers, pincers, pinchers, pliers, puller, tongs). (various references)

Romanian

se duce de râpã (go to the bad, go to the dogs), sã nu ne jucãm cu focul (let sleeping dogs lie), plouã puternic (it's raining cats and dogs), plouã cu gãleata (it is pouring, it's raining cats and dogs, piss down, pour, rain cats and dogs), cursã (ambush, chase, course, decoy, drive, errand, gin, journey, pit, pitfall, race, races, ride, riding, run, running, snare, springe, stroke, take in, the dogs, toil, trap), câinele care latrã nu muşcã (barking dogs never bite), arunca la gunoi (give to the dogs, throw to the dogs), alergare de câini (the dogs). (various references)

Russian 

разориться (beggar oneself, go to pot, go to the devil, go to the dogs, take a knock, take the knock), лить как из ведра (raining cats and dogs), пойти прахом (go to the dogs), дождь льет как из ведра (it's raining cats and dogs). (various references)

Scottish

truis (collect, tear, truss up : truis! word by which dogs), tabhannaich (nf. barking of dogs), stuig (incite, va. incite as dogs to fight or chase), sgàirn (howling of dogs), gasradh (salacity in female dogs). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

oslabiti (become weak, debilitate, devitalize, enervate, enfeeble, go to the dogs, lose weight, relax, relieve, unfix, weaken), lije kao iz kabla (raining cats and dogs), ići dođavola (go to hell, go to the devil, go to the dogs). (various references)

Spanish

tenazas (crampon, nail drawer, pair of pincers, pincers, pinchers, pliers, tongs), pinzas (forceps, nippers, pincers, scoop, tweezers), mordazas (chuck jaws, vice clamps), los perros, las perras, alicates (nippers, pliers). (various references)

Swedish

spärrfångare med excentriska fånghuvuden, hundkapplöpning (greyhound racing), hundar. (various references)

Thai

สุดยอด (awesome!, corking, rare, summit, tiptop). (various references)

Turkish

tazı yarışları (the dogs). (various references)

Ukrainian

не буди лихо, поки спить тихо (let sleep dogs lie). (various references)

Canidae. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "DOGS": dogsbodies, dogsbody, dogsled, dogsledded, dogsledder, dogsledders, dogsledding, dogsleds. (additional references)

Words ending with "DOGS": bandogs, bulldogs, cantdogs, chilidogs, coydogs, firedogs, fogdogs, gundogs, hangdogs, hotdogs, lapdogs, overdogs, seadogs, sheepdogs, sundogs, underdogs, watchdogs, waterdogs. (additional references)

Misspellings

"DOGS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dags, deggs, deog, dfg, dgg, dgo, Dhoog, Djogo, dlog, dobs, dods, dofs, doga, dogf, dogg, dogga, dogh, Dogo, Dogu, dogus, doigts, dois, dojos, dolg, Dolgos, dols, doms, donges, doog, doos, dors, douga, dous, doys, drogs, dsg, duags, duga, duges, dugse, dvg, odg, ogs, Qdos, xdos. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: gods.

-1 letter: dog, dos, god, gos, ods, sod.

-2 letters: do, go, od, os, so.

+1 letter: dagos, doges, dongs, goads, golds, goods, gowds.

+2 letters: dagoes, defogs, dodges, dogeys, dogies, dogmas, doings, dongas, dosage, dosing, doughs, geodes, geoids, godets, godson, gonads, goosed, gourds, lodges, pagods, seadog, sogged, stodge, stodgy, sundog, wodges.

+3 letters: adagios, bandogs, bodegas, bodings, codgers, coydogs, dagobas, dialogs, diglots, dingoes, dodgems, dodgers, dogdoms, dogears, dogfish, doggers, doggies, doggish, doglegs, dognaps, dogsled, dongles, dorbugs, dosages, dossing, dotages, dousing, dowsing, dragons, drogues, drongos, dugongs, dugouts, duologs, fogdogs, gadoids, ganoids, geodesy, gessoed, ghosted, glossed, goddams, goddess, godless, godowns, godsend, godship, godsons, godwits, goldest, goodbys, goodies, goodish, gourdes, grossed, grounds, groused, guidons, gundogs, hagdons, hotdogs, indigos, lapdogs, lodgers, noodges, ogdoads, pagodas, pongids, sandhog, seadogs, shogged, sigmoid, slogged, snogged, sodding, soughed, splodge, sponged, stodged, stodges, stooged, sundogs.