watchdog

English

Etymology

From watch and dog.

Noun

watchdog (plural watchdogs)

1. a guard dog
2. a person or organization that monitors and publicizes the behavior of others (individuals, corporations, governments) to discover undesirable activity.

Translations

dog

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 看門狗 (cmn), 看门狗 (cmn) (kānméngǒu), 看家狗 (cmn) (kānjiāgǒu)

• Finnish: vahtikoira (fi)
• French: mâtin (fr) m, chien de garde (fr) m, chienne de garde (fr) f
• German: Wachhund (de) m, Wachhündin (de) f
• Japanese: 番犬 (ja) (ばんけん, banken)
• Luxembourgish: Wuechthond (lb) m

• Malay: anjing pengawal (ms)
• Portuguese: cão de guarda (pt) m
• Russian: сторожевой пёс (ru) (storoževój pjos) m, сторожевая собака (ru) (storoževája sobáka) f
• Spanish: perro guardián (es) m
• Volapük: (♂♀) galedadog (vo), (♂) galedahidog (vo), (♀) galedajidog (vo)

person

• Finnish: vahtikoira (fi)
• Japanese: 監視委員会 (ja) (kanshi iinkai), 監視者 (ja) (かんししゃ, kanshisha), 監視人 (ja) (かんしにん, kanshinin)

• Portuguese: vigilância (pt) f
• Russian: контролёр (ru) (kontroljór) m

Verb

watchdog (third-person singular simple present watchdogs, present participle watchdogging, simple past and past participle watchdogged)

1. To perform a function analogous to a watchdog.
2. To guard and warn.

Anagrams

• dog watch, dogwatch