Meanings
- humorousEveryone, referring to canines.
Everyone, and everydog, will be very happy once they try the recipes I’ve included here.
2003, Sally Sampson, Throw Me A Bone: 50 Healthy, Canine Taste-Tested Recipes for Snacks, Meals, and Treats, page 32 more examples
For Terhune, Lad was not only the finest, most sensitive dog that ever lived, but he was also a kind of "everydog," the supreme example of bravery, nobility, and superb instinct that was the result of thousands of years of evolution from wolf to man's best friend.
1996, Albert Payson Terhune, “Foward”, in Lad, A Dog, page ixWalk your dog on Seapoint Beach after 5 P.M. — everydog who's any dog is there and running FREE!
1996, Heather MacLean Walters, Take Your Pet Too!: Fun Things to Do!, page 43
Origin
From every + dog, by analogy with everyone.
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