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housedog

housedog

2.1
A dog that lives indoors with people and guards the house
  • noun
  • /ˈhaʊsˌdɔɡ/
translation icon : perro de casa
  • Our housedog barks loudly at any intruders, ensuring the house remains safe.

Examples

  • The housedog follows its owner everywhere, always ready to protect the home.

  • As a housedog, Bella enjoys lounging on the couch while watching the family.

  • Even my father can find no grounds to object to their instant conversion by Berneta into housedogs, because it just as quickly becomes plain that only one or the other can be used on the sheep each day.

    Fiction book (1993)

Synonyms

watchdog
vshousedog
9 3.1

A dog trained to guard a building and warn about strangers

lives indoors with people and protects the home rather than wider property

How Protective

attack dog
8 4.1
guard dog
20 2.1
watchdog
9 3.1
housedog
2.1

Surface Forms

housedog singular
housedogs plural

Morphology

housedog = house + dog (transparent) = house + dog

The compound combines two common nouns and the meaning 'a dog kept indoors/a dog for the house' is directly inferable.

Etymology

Housedog is a simple combination of house and dog and literally means a dog kept to live 'in the house' and help guard it. So a housedog is an indoor dog that stays with the family and alerts them to visitors or danger.