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Is dog a noun?

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see also chili dog, hot dog, shaggy-dog story, top dog, watchdog Word Origin Old English docga, of unknown origin. Extra examples A dog that savaged a five-year-old child was later destroyed, police have confirmed. read more

By the 16th century, dog had become the general word, and hound had begun to refer only to dog types used for hunting. In the 16th century dog was also adopted by several continental European languages as their word for mastiff. read more

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