barker
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7.7
- noun
- /ˈbɑrkər/
- Informal
:
ladrador
- I ran out to grab the paper, but so did my dog Barker!
- dog barker
Examples
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- Excuse me, who? - Sergeant Barker, the dog that hates crack and stuff.
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Four years in a row of not watching the carnival barkers.
Blog text (18) -
Perhaps you are the best barker in trade chat with a golden virtual tongue.
Blog text (22) -
Barker's 1980s novels and the television miniseries.
Academic text (2016) -
The yard barker-like voice, male, from out of a sewer line, repeatedly blasted the camp.
Fiction book (1997) -
Great Pyrenees are prodigious barkers because they want to scare predators away so they don't have to go kill them.
Blog text (10) -
If you know anyone that works for the animal shelters near you, maybe you could have them pick out a few that are not big barkers; that way you don't have to go back into the kennels.
Blog text (1) -
I have a purebred female Chihuahua, who I got last year because my older Chihuahua had passed away, and I felt bad for my male Chihuahua/Italian Greyhound mix, but she is a nonstop barker once she starts.
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If your dog is a barker, you might want to train him to be quieter.
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My neighbor has a barker that keeps me up at night.
Synonyms
1
6.9
A small dog that barks a lot and loudly
1
3.5
A dog that barks loudly again and again in an annoying way
An animal or person that makes a loud harsh noise
How Noisy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Barker for a noisy dog comes from the verb bark, which is the 'dog sound'. So a barker is simply a dog that barks a lot.