dog food

See also: dogfood and dog-food

English

Alternative forms

• dogfood (US)

Pronunciation

• Audio (Australian):

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Etymology 1

A dog and some dog food

Noun

dog food (countable and uncountable, plural dog foods)

1. Food eaten by or appropriate for dogs in general, whether wild or domesticated.
2. Food for domesticated dogs.
3. (computing) Beta software that is tested on the developer’s own computer.
4. (slang) Synonym of dog meat (“dead person”).

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

5. (slang, drugs) Heroin, typically the non-black tar type.

Derived terms

• eat one's own dog food

Translations

food eaten by dogs

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 狗糧 / 狗粮 (gau² loeng⁴)

  Mandarin: 狗糧 / 狗粮 (zh) (gǒuliáng), 狗食 (zh) (gǒushí)

• Danish: hundemad (da) c, hundefoder (da) c
• Dutch: hondenvoer (nl) n
• Esperanto: hundmanĝaĵo
• Estonian: koeratoit (et)
• Finnish: koiranruoka (fi)
• French: nourriture pour chien
• German: Hundefutter (de) n
• Greek: σκυλοτροφή (el) f (skylotrofí)
• Hungarian: kutyaeledel (hu)
• Icelandic: hundamatur (is) m, hundafóður (is) n
• Japanese: ドッグフード (doggu fūdo)
• Kazakh: ит асы (it asy)
• Korean: 개 먹이 (gae meogi), 개밥 (gaebap), 개 사료 (gae saryo)
• Navajo: łééchąąʼí bichʼiyąʼ
• Polish: karma dla psów f
• Portuguese: comida/ração para cachorros/cães f
• Russian: соба́чья еда́ f (sobáčʹja jedá)
• Spanish: comida para perros f, comida de perro f
• Swedish: hundmat (sv) c
• Turkish: köpek yemi, köpek maması

Etymology 2

Calque of Chinese 狗糧 / 狗粮 (gǒuliáng).

Noun

dog food (uncountable)

1. (fandom slang, Internet slang) public display of affection, especially from the perspective of a lonely, single person.