dogling

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noun

A little or young dog; a puppy.

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doglet
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Meanings

noundogling (plural doglings)

plural doglings

  1. A little or young dog; a puppy.

    The day she came home to find that our dogling had gone to live permanently with the man who spaded up our back yard it seemed for a time that there was no balm in Gilead.

    1903, Harper's magazine

    Synonyms: doglet

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA little or young dog; a puppy.

Similar
doglet
Also see
dogletpuppy

Origin

From dog + -ling.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

lodginggoldingGingoldgodling
Cite this entry
APA

dogling. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dogling

MLA

“dogling.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dogling. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dogling,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dogling.

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