Meanings
alternative house-broken
- not comparabletrained to avoid urinating or defecating in the house, except within a litterbox, toilet, or other receptacle.
Hey. At least I'm housebroken.
1998, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, The Big Lebowski, spoken by The Dude (Jeff Bridges)1 more example
Week in and week out you come back like a housebroken Pomeranian loyal to the bitter end. Good boy.
2012 September 1, 0:14 from the start, in Putin Learns Putin Behind Plot To Assassinate Putin, The Onion, archived from the original on 20 Jul 2016Synonyms: house-trained
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivetrained to avoid urinating or defecating in the house, except within a litterbox, toilet, or other receptacle.
More synonyms by meaning
adjective(of pets) trained to urinate and defecate outside or in a special place
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
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housebroken. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/housebroken
“housebroken.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/housebroken. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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