dog meat

See also: dogmeat

English

Alternative forms

• dogmeat

Pronunciation

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Noun

dog meat (uncountable)

1. Meat from a dog eaten as food.

   We visited South Korea this time around, where we ate dog meat for the first time.

2. Meat prepared to be given to a dog as food.
   • 2004, John O'Farrell, This Is Your Life, page 293:

     That's a tin of dog meat, as well, really, er, served in the traditional manner, chopped up into a big bowl that says "DOG" on the side.

3. (slang) Synonym of dead meat (“someone in danger of being killed or severely punished”)

   Did you just step on my blue suede shoes? You're dog meat now!

Synonyms

• (meat from a dog): dog, dogflesh, fragrant meat
• (person in danger): dog food, worm food

Hypernyms

• (meat for a dog): dog food

Translations

dog eaten as meat

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 狗肉 (gau² juk⁶), 香肉 (hoeng¹ juk⁶)

  Hokkien: 狗肉 (zh-min-nan) (káu-bah)

  Mandarin: 狗肉 (zh) (gǒuròu), 香肉 (zh) (xiāngròu)

• Dutch: hondenvlees (nl) n
• Esperanto: hundoviando, (young) hundidoviando, hundaĵo, (young) hundidaĵo
• Finnish: koira (fi), koiran liha
• French: viande de chien f
• German: Hundefleisch (de) n
• Hungarian: kutyahús
• Ido: hundokarno
• Italian: carne di cane f
• Japanese: 狗肉 (ja) (くにく, kuniku)
• Korean: 개고기 (ko) (gaegogi), 단고기 (ko) (dan'gogi)
• Malay:

  Jawi: داݢيڠ انجيڠ, داݢيڠ اسو

  Rumi: daging anjing, daging asu, daging kuyuk

• Mongolian: нохойн мах (noxojn max)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hundekjøtt n

  Nynorsk: hundekjøt n, hundekjøtt n

• Portuguese: carne de cachorro/cão f
• Russian: пси́на (ru) f (psína), пся́тина (ru) f (psjátina), собача́тина (ru) f (sobačátina), соба́чина (ru) f (sobáčina)
• Swedish: hundkött (sv) n
• Thai: เนื้อหมา (th), เนื้อสุนัข (th)
• Turkish: köpek eti
• Ukrainian: пси́на f (psýna), пся́тина f (psjátyna), собача́тина f (sobačátyna), соба́чина f (sobáčyna)
• Vietnamese: thịt chó
• Welsh: cig i gŵn m
• Yakut: ыт этэ (ıt ete)
• Yoruba: olókílì

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• dog team