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puppy (plural puppies)
- A young dog.
- A young rat.
- A young seal.
- (slang, usually in the plural) A woman’s breast.
- (informal) A (generic) thing; particularly something that is a nuisance; a sucker.
- I have another two dozen of these puppies to finish before I can go home.
- (derogatory) A conceited and impertinent person.
- Addison
- I found my place taken by an ill-bred, awkward puppy with a money bag under each arm.
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young dog
- Afrikaans: hondjie (af) n
- Arabic: جرو (ar) (jarw) m
- Armenian: լակոտ (hy) (lakot), թուլա (hy) (t’ula)
- Aromanian: cãtsãl (rup) m
- Avar: таращ (av)
- Basque: txakurkume (eu)
- Belarusian: шчанюк (be) (ščanjúk) m, шчаня (be) (ščanjá) n, цюцька (be) (cjúcʹka) f
- Bengali: কুকুরছানা (bn) (kukurchana)
- Bulgarian: кученце (bg) (kučence) n
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 小狗 (cmn) (xiǎogǒu)
- Crimean Tatar: küçelek, boşıq
- Czech: štěně (cs) n
- Danish: hvalp (da) c
- Dutch: puppy (nl) m and f
- Esperanto: hundido (eo), hundidino (eo)
- Finnish: pentu (fi), penikka (fi)
- French: chiot (fr) m
- Georgian: ლეკვი (ka) (lekvi)
- German: Welpe (de) m, Hündchen (de) n
- Greek: κουτάβι (el) (koutávi) n
- Greenlandic: qimmiaraq (kl)
- Hungarian: kiskutya (hu), kölyökkutya (hu)
- Icelandic: hvolpur (is) m
- Ilocano: uken
- Irish: coileáinín (ga) m
- Italian: cucciolo (it) m, cagnolino (it) m, cagnetto (it)
- Japanese: 子犬 (ja) (こいぬ, koinu)
- Javanese: kirik (jv)
- Kazakh: күшік (kk) (küšik)
- Korean: 강아지 (ko) (gang-aji)
- Latgalian: kucāns m, sunāns m
- Latin: catulus (la) m
- Latvian: kucēns (lv) m
- Macedonian: кученце (mk) (kúčence) n, кутре (mk) (kútre) n
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- Malay:
- Rumi: anak anjing (ms), anak asu (ms), kirik (ms)
- Jawi: انق انجيڠ (ms), انق اسو (ms), کيريق (ms)
- Maltese: ġeru (mt) m, ġerwa (mt) f
- Montagnais: atimuss
- Navajo: łééchąąyázhí
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: valp (no)
- Nynorsk: kvalp (nn), kvelp (nn)
- Persian: توله سگ (fa) (tule sag)
- Polish: szczeniak (pl) m, szczenię (pl) n
- Portuguese: filhote de cachorro (pt) m
- Romani: rikono m, zhukeloro m
- Romanian: cățel (ro) m
- Russian: щенок (ru) (ščenók) m, (colloquial) цуцик (ru) (cúcik) m
- Sardinian:
- Campidanese Sardinian: catteddu, calleddu, cacciurru
- Gallurese Sardinian: catteddu
- Logudorese Sardinian: cacciùcciu, catteddu
- Sassarese Sardinian: catteddu, cucciucciu
- Scottish Gaelic: cuilean (gd) m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: штѐне (sh) n, штенац (sh) m
- Roman: štène (sh) n, šténac (sh) m
- Slovak: šteňa (sk) n
- Slovene: kužek (sl) m, ščene (sl) n
- Spanish: cachorro (es) m, perrito (es) m
- Swedish: hundvalp (sv) c, valp (sv) c
- Tagalog: tuta' (tl)
- Telugu: కుక్కపిల్ల (te)
- Turkish: köpek yavrusu (tr)
- Ukrainian: цуценя (uk) (cucenjá) n, щеня (uk) (ščenjá) n
- Vietnamese: chó con (vi)
- Wolof: kuti bi (wo)
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puppy (third-person singular simple present puppies, present participle puppying, simple past and past participle puppied)
- (transitive) To bring forth whelps; to pup.