dog man
Locution nominale
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| dog man \Prononciation ?\ |
dog men \Prononciation ?\ |
dog man (Royaume-Uni) \ˈdɔɡmən\ ou (États-Unis) \ˈdɔɡmən\
- Homme aimant les chiens en tant qu’animaux de compagnie, souvent par opposition à ceux qui préfèrent les chats.
Now. I am not a cat man, but a dog man. Indeed, if I had my way. I would own an English bulldog, which I consider the king of breeds.
— (Stephen Benet, The Australian Women’s Weekly, 1942)Major Anstruther did not care much for cats: he was a dog-man himself.
— (Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East, série « The Malayan Trilogy », 1959 (1re édition 1972))Elton is a dog man, not a cat man.
— (Tom Stanton, Claude Bernardin, Rocket Man: Elton John from A-Z, 1996, page 30)If you were a total dog man like Joe, and a one-man dog like Cass, the relationship developed a mutual dependency, as close as any marriage, of minds and hearts.
— (Gordon Thorburn, Cassius - The True Story of a Courageous Police Dog, 2010)"You a dog man or a cat man?" "Dog, I guess."
— (John Vernon, Think of a Number, 2010)
- Homme élevant ou s’occupant de chiens. Étymologie manquante ou incomplète. Si vous la connaissez, vous pouvez l’ajouter en cliquant ici.
Of course there is a sprinkling of wealthy dog men, but in the main it is working-class hopefuls who supply the fields[.]
— (James Holledge, The Great Australian Gable, Horwitz Publications(en), Sydney, Australie, 1966, page 124)
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modifier- Cette page utilise des informations de l’article du Wiktionnaire en anglais, sous licence CC BY-SA 4.0 : dog man. (liste des auteurs et autrices)