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 (zh), 看门狗 (zh) (kānméngǒu), 看家狗 (zh) (kānjiāgǒu) Finnish: vahtikoira (fi) French: mâtin (fr) m., chien de garde (fr) m. German: Wachhund (de) m. Japanese: 番犬 (ja) (ばんけん, banken)

Luxembourgish: Wuechthond (lb) m. 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: (male or female) galedadog (vo), (male) galedahidog (vo), (female) 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