puppy

plural puppies · alternative obsolete puppie

1. A young dog, especially before sexual maturity (12–18 months).

   Synonyms: dogling, pup, whelp, whelpie

2. A young rat.
3. A young seal.

   Synonyms: pup

4. A dog with a youthful appearance, or any dog.
5. plural normallyslangA woman’s breast.

   Unclasp your bra and set those puppies free.

   2007, Rodney Carrington, Show Them To Me (from the album King of the Mountains)

6. informalA (generic) thing; particularly something that is a nuisance; a sucker.

   I have another two dozen of these puppies to finish before I can go home.

7. datedderogatoryA conceited and impertinent person, especially a young man.

   I found my place taken by an ill-bred, awkward puppy with a money bag under each arm.

   1711 July 23 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “THURSDAY, July 13, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 106; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC

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   I ne'r vvith VVits and VVitlings paſt my days, / To ſpread about the Itch of Verſe and Praiſe, / Nor like a Puppy daggled thro' the Tovvn, / To fetch and carry Sing-ſong up and dovvn; […]

   1735 January 13 (Gregorian calendar; indicated as 1734), [Alexander] Pope, An Epistle from Mr. Pope, to Dr. Arbuthnot, London: […] J[ohn] Wright for Lawton Gilliver […], →OCLC, page 12, lines 218–221

   I think him a very handsome young man, and his manners are precisely what I like and approve—so truly the gentleman, without the least conceit or puppyism. You must know I have a vast dislike to puppies—quite a horror of them.

   1816, Jane Austen, Emma

present singular third person puppies · participle present puppying · participle past puppied · past puppied · alternative obsolete puppie

1. transitiveTo bring forth whelps or give birth to pups.

   Synonyms: pup, whelp