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Definition of Lapdog
1. Noun. A dog small and tame enough to be held in the lap.
Definition of Lapdog
1. n. A small dog fondled in the lap.
Definition of Lapdog
1. Noun. A dog small and tame enough to be held in the lap. ¹
2. Noun. (derogatory) one who is completely obedient, unquestioning, and submissive to the government or another party. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lapdog
1. a small dog [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lapdog
Literary usage of Lapdog
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"THE ASS AND THE lapdog A FARMER one day came to the stables to see to his ...
With the Farmer came his lapdog, who danced about and licked his hand and ..."
2. Folk-lore and Fable: Æsop, Grimm, Andersen by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen (1909)
"THE ASS AND THE lapdog- A FARMER one day came to the stables to see to his ...
With the Farmer came his lapdog, who danced about and licked his hand and ..."
3. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"and Duchess of Queensberry, to a pampered lapdog, fat and indolent; and that of
Steele, whose happy-go-lucky ups and downs and general lovableness ..."
4. The Works of Robert Burns by Robert Burns (1841)
"ON THE DEATH OF A lapdog NAMED ECHO. IN wood and wild, ye warbling throng, Your
heavy loss deplore ; Now half extinct your powers of song, Sweet Echo is no ..."
5. The Diary and Letters of Gouverneur Morris: Minister of the United States to by Gouverneur Morris (1888)
"Madame de Suze's lapdog. IN the month of April the dearth of wheat at Lyons gave
the ministers serious apprehension, and Morris proposed to the banker Le ..."
6. The Spirit of the Public Journals: Being an Impartial Selection of the Most by Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott (1803)
"lapdog AND PHYSICIAN. company the very mention of religion would either excite
a grin, or make all the female part of the company, who were not, fainting, ..."
7. The Wabash: Or, Adventures of an English Gentleman's Family in the Interior by John Richard Beste (1855)
"The lapdog.—The railway accident.—The runaway slave.— Roasting and shooting
niggers.—Niagara falls.—Goat or Iris island.—The Horseshoe Fall.—Fishing. ..."
8. Works by Irish Archaeological and Celtic Society (1868)
"There was a beautiful lapdog in the possession of a friend of Cairbre Muse in
Britain, and Cairbre got it from him [thus]. Once as Cairbre (went) to his ..."
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