DOG BUFFERS. Dog stealers, who kill those dogs not advertised for, sell their skins, and feed the remaining dogs with their flesh.
DOG IN A DOUBLET. A daring, resolute fellow. In
Germany and Flanders the boldest dogs used to hunt the boar,
having a kind of buff doublet buttoned on their bodies,
Rubens has represented several so equipped, so has Sneyders.
DOG. An old dog at it; expert or accustomed to any thing. Dog in a manger; one who would prevent another from enjoying what he himself does not want: an allusion to the well-known fable. The dogs have not dined; a common saying to any one whose shirt hangs out behind. To dog, or dodge; to follow at a distance. To blush like a blue dog, i.e. not at all. To walk the black dog on any one; a punishment inflicted in the night on a fresh prisoner, by his comrades, in case of his refusal to pay the usual footing or garnish.
DOG LATIN. Barbarous Latin, such as was formerly used by the lawyers in their pleadings.
DOG'S PORTION. A lick and a smell. He comes in for only a dog's portion; a saying of one who is a distant admirer or dangler after women. See DANGLER.
DOG'S RIG. To copulate till you are tired, and then turn tail to it.
DOG'S SOUP. Rain water.
DOG VANE. A cockade. SEA TERM.
DOGGED. Surly.
DOGGESS, DOG'S WIFE or LADY, PUPPY'S MAMMA.
Jocular ways of calling a woman a bitch.