dog meat

See also: dogmeat

English

Alternative forms

• dogmeat

Pronunciation

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Noun

dog meat (uncountable)

1. Meat from a dog eaten as food.

   We visited South Korea this time around, where we ate dog meat for the first time.

2. Meat prepared to be given to a dog as food.
   • 2004, John O'Farrell, This Is Your Life, page 293:

     That's a tin of dog meat, as well, really, er, served in the traditional manner, chopped up into a big bowl that says "DOG" on the side.

3. (slang) The depersonalized, debased remains of a dead person.

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

Synonyms

• dog ("they eat dog")
• fragrant meat ("the meat of a dog")
• dog food ("dead person"; "meat for a dog" (although "dog food" is not necessarily meat))

Translations

dog eaten as meat

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 狗肉 (gau² juk⁶), 香肉 (hoeng¹ juk⁶)

  Mandarin: 狗肉 (zh) (gǒuròu), 香肉 (xiāngròu)

  Min Nan: 狗肉 (zh-min-nan) (káu-bah)

• Dutch: hondenvlees n
• Esperanto: hundoviando, (young) hundidoviando, hundaĵo, (young) hundidaĵo
• Finnish: koira (fi), koiran liha
• French: viande de chien f
• German: Hundefleisch (de) n, (young) Hundchenfleisch n
• Hungarian: kutyahús
• Ido: hundokarno
• Italian: carne di cane f
• Japanese: 狗肉 (ja) (くにく, kuniku)
• Korean: 개고기 (ko) (gaegogi), 단고기 (ko) (dan'gogi)
• Malay:

  Jawi: داݢيڠ انجيڠ, داݢيڠ اسو

  Rumi: daging anjing, daging asu, daging kuyuk

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• Mongolian: нохойн мах (noxojn max)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hundekjøtt n

  Nynorsk: hundekjøt n, hundekjøtt n

• Portuguese: carne de cachorro/cão f
• Russian: пси́на (ru) f (psína), пся́тина (ru) f (psjátina), собача́тина (ru) f (sobačátina), соба́чина (ru) f (sobáčina)
• Swedish: hundkött (sv) n
• Thai: เนื้อหมา (th), เนื้อสุนัข (th)
• Turkish: köpek eti
• Vietnamese: thịt chó
• Yakut: ыт этэ (ıt ete)

Anagrams

• dog team