Dogs Quotes

Dogs refers to a mammal, Canis familiaris or Canis lupus familiaris, that has been domesticated for thousands of years, of highly variable appearance due to human breeding. It commonly describes any member of the Family Canidae, including domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, jackals, foxes, and their relatives (extant and extinct); canid, a male dog, wolf or fox, as opposed to a bitch or vixen, and a dull, unattractive girl or woman, which gives the term a broader and more practical sense than a single short definition would suggest. Depending on context, it can also point to a man (derived from definition 2), a coward, and someone who is morally reprehensible, so the category can cover literal uses, related ideas, and more figurative extensions of the same core meaning. Taken together, these meanings present Dogs as a flexible theme rather than a narrowly technical label, covering the central idea people usually mean when they use the word while still leaving room for closely related senses that appear in real language. Additional shades of meaning include a sexually aggressive man (cf. horny), any of various mechanical devices for holding, gripping, or fastening something, particularly with a tooth-like projection, a click or pallet adapted to engage the teeth of a ratchet-wheel, to restrain the back action; a click or pawl. (See also: ratchet, windlass), a metal support for logs in a fireplace, and the eighteenth Lenormand card, which reinforce how the category can stretch across adjacent but still recognizable uses of the same term.

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John Grogan

(b. 1957)