lapdoggery
English
Etymology
Noun
lapdoggery (uncountable)
- Behavior or activity characteristic of a lapdog, such as idleness or submission.
- 1979, The Fiddlehead[1], page 78:
- "They do eat up one's time — " she checks herself again, checks her lapdog's struggles against lapdoggery, and interviewers, and dubious, childless relationships […]
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- Throstle adored Rosie, who had rescued him in the last three months from a life of uninterrupted lapdoggery by bringing him on her stable rounds every morning […]
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- If Nini Mo were alive today, she would not stand by idly as Califa is sucked ever deeper into lapdoggery, as we bow our heads ever lower to the Birdie yoke.