dogstagram

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noun

An Instagram account focused on a dog.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

noundogstagram (plural dogstagrams)

plural dogstagrams

  1. InternetAn Instagram account focused on a dog.

    The Best Dogstagram Accounts You Should Be Following

    2015 September 18, Jessica Duffy, Void, archived from the original on 28 May 2022
    5 more examples

    Carve a creative space with your dog-stagram, with your people-who-matter-stagram, or your inner palm sketchpad.

    2014 January, Reuben G. Krabbe, “The Art of a Ski Bum: Getting Creative with It”, in The Capilano Courier, volume 47, number 13, page 15

    “I have been thinking about starting a dogstagram,” I confessed.

    2019, Elle Hume, My Fair Millennial 3: Also a Romantic Comedy, →ISBN

    Krammer never expected to gain such a large fan base, but he said he enjoys the friendly, passionate dog community that emerged from Blodgett’s outreach. “I had enough friends that were pushing me (to make an account),” Krammer said. “It’s been really fun just because there’s been a ton of people that have shown up, and there’s this really sweet community that’s been born specifically out of the dogstagram, so we interact with so many people from around the world.[…]”

    2020 February 20, Elena Waldman, “Blodgett the Great proves sky’s the limit”, in The Rocky Mountain Collegian, volume 129, number 44, page 19

    This paper examines the phenomenon of dogstagrams on the social media platform Instagram.

    2020 August 6, Karli Brittz, “Dog Stories in the Digital Age: Dogstagrams as Digital Tales of Becoming with Companion Species”, in Junctions: Graduate Journal of the Humanities, volume 5, number 1, page 41

    The hive mind does us all a favor by acting as a check for all the would-be dogstagram accounts for which there was no demand.

    2020 September 18, Maddie Bender, “Consider the Hot Dog”, in Yale Daily News, volume CXLIII, number 3, New Haven, Conn., page B3

Origin

  1. Old English*dogga
  2. Middle Englishdogge
  3. Englishdog
  4. Proto-Indo-European*énu
  5. Latinin-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*steh₂-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*sth₂éh₁yeti
  8. Proto-Italic*staējō
  9. Proto-Italic*staēō
  10. Latinstō
  11. Latinīnstō
  12. Latinīnstāns
  13. Old Frenchinstant
  14. Middle Englishinstant
  15. Latinīnstān
  16. Frenchinstant
  17. Englishinstant
  18. Proto-Indo-European*kh₂em-
  19. Proto-Indo-Iranian*kmárati
  20. Proto-Iranian*kamarā
  21. Ancient Greekκαμάρα (kamára)
  22. Latincamera
  23. Englishcamera
  24. Englishinstant cameraellip.
  25. Englishinstant
  26. Proto-Indo-European*kʷelh₁-
  27. Ancient Greekτῆλε (têle)
  28. Englishtele-
  29. Proto-Indo-European*gerbʰ-
  30. Proto-Hellenic*grə́pʰō
  31. Ancient Greekγρᾰ́φω (grắphō)
  32. Ancient Greekγράμμα (grámma)
  33. Englishtelegram
  34. EnglishInstagram
  35. Englishdogstagram

Blend of dog + Instagram.

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Cite this entry
APA

dogstagram. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dogstagram

MLA

“dogstagram.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dogstagram. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dogstagram,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dogstagram.

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