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Definition of Housebroken
1. Adjective. (of pets) trained to urinate and defecate outside or in a special place. "`house-trained' is chiefly British"
Definition of Housebroken
1. Adjective. Of animals: trained to avoid urinating or defecating in the house, except within a litterbox, toilet, or other receptacle. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Housebroken
1. housebreak [v] - See also: housebreak
Lexicographical Neighbors of Housebroken
Literary usage of Housebroken
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Trukese-English Dictionary by Ward Hunt Goodenough, Hiroshi Sugita (1980)
"give a house-building feast for (a house). housebroken ... tame, housebroken (of
animals). housecat attu, attu, kattu, kattu (nu. ..."
2. Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children by Theodore Roosevelt (1919)
"Skip is housebroken, but he is like a real little Indian. He can stand any amount
of hard work if there is a bear or bobcat ahead, but now that he is in the ..."
3. The Affairs of Women: A Modern Miscellany by Colin Bingham (2006)
"A woman with ideas and the ability to express them is something of a social
embarrassment, like an un-housebroken pet. People like this, therefore, ..."
4. The Catskills Alive! by Francine Silverman (2003)
"... provided they are housebroken, socialized and well behaved. Innkeepers Melissa
and Ben Fenton, former hoteliers, provide dog owners with their "Canine ..."
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