dogwhip

English edit

Etymology edit

dog +‎ whip

Noun edit

dogwhip (plural dogwhips)

A whip intended for use on dogs.
- 1862, Philip Gilbert Hamerton, A Painter's Camp in the Highlands, and Thoughts about Art:
  Here the speaker took a dogwhip from his pocket...
- 1950, Wilhelm Stekel, Eden Paul, Technique of Analytical Psychotherapy:
  On one occasion it tried to creep under her petticoat and lick her, so she thrashed it with the dogwhip.

Hypernyms edit

whip

Verb edit

dogwhip (third-person singular simple present dogwhips, present participle dogwhipping, simple past and past participle dogwhipped)

(transitive, rare) To beat with a dogwhip.
- 2013, David Drake, S. M. Stirling, Hope Reborn:
  The officers cursed and dogwhipped their way through to fall into a ragged line before Raj where he waited with the signallers and Battalion standard; the companies fell in to the shouted commands of their NCOs […]