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Definition of Dirty dog
1. Noun. A person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible. "The British call a contemptible person a `git'"
Exact synonyms: Bum, Crumb, Git, Lowlife, Puke, Rat, Rotter, Scum Bag, Skunk, So-and-so, Stinker, Stinkpot
Generic synonyms: Disagreeable Person, Unpleasant Person
Derivative terms: Bum, Rat
Generic synonyms: Disagreeable Person, Unpleasant Person
Derivative terms: Bum, Rat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dirty Dog
Literary usage of Dirty dog
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"A dirty dog. In the East the dog is still held in abhorrence, as the scavenger
of the streets. ... Generally speaking, " a dirty dog " it one morally ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1827)
"Far be it from us to seek to impugn such doctrine. A dirty dog is a nuisance not
to be borne. But here the question arises, — who — what — is a dirty dog? ..."
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