house-trained

See also: housetrained

English edit

house-trained (not comparable)

(of a pet) Trained not to excrete indoors.
(by extension) Exhibiting behavior and habits that are consistent with good housekeeping.
- 1999, Dana Stabenow, Hunter's Moon, →ISBN, page 112:
  But he did have the endearing habit of cleaning up after she cooked, and unlike other men of her acquaintance the dishes were actually clean when she went to get them out of the cupboard again. Johnny was house-trained, too.
- 2023 August 8, Janan Ganesh, “The oneness of Ron DeSantis and Rishi Sunak”, in Financial Times‎^[1]:
  DeSantis picks cultural fights that are sometimes warranted but more often exhausting. Yet each man will seem at least house-trained compared with recent leaders of their party.

trained not to excrete indoors