puppy

English

A puppy (young dog)

Alternative forms

• puppie (obsolete)

Etymology

From earlier puppie, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French poupée (“doll, toy”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French poupee (“a doll; puppet”). More at puppet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʌpi/, [ˈpʰɐpi]

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ʌpi

Noun

puppy (plural puppies)

1. A young dog, especially before sexual maturity (12-18 months)
2. A young rat.
3. A young seal.
4. (slang, usually in the plural) A woman’s breast.
5. (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.

6. (derogatory, dated) A conceited and impertinent person, especially a young man.
   • (Can we date this quote by Addison and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     I found my place taken by an ill-bred, awkward puppy with a money bag under each arm.

Synonyms

• (young dog): dogling, pup, whelp
• (young seal): pup
• (woman’s breast): See also Thesaurus:breast

Derived terms

• common mudpuppy
• common mud puppy
• dog puppy
• Hush Puppies
• hush puppy
• hushpuppy
• mudpuppy
• mud puppy
• puppy dog
• puppy-eyed
• puppy fat
• puppyhood
• puppy love
• puppy mill
• puppy milling
• puppy school
• sand puppy
• sick puppy
• stress puppy
• sweater puppies
• wolf puppy

 

Translations

young dog

• Afrikaans: hondjie (af) n
• Arabic: جَرْو (ar) m (jarw)

  Moroccan Arabic: كْليّب m (kləyyəb)

• Armenian: լակոտ (hy) (lakot), թուլա (hy) (tʻula), քոթոթ (hy) (kʻotʻotʻ)
• Aromanian: cãtsãl m
• Asturian: perrín m, cachorru m
• Avar: таращ (tarašš)
• Bashkir: көсөк (kösök)
• Basque: txakurkume (eu)
• Belarusian: шчаню́к m (ščanjúk), шчаня́ n (ščanjá), цю́цька f (cjúcʹka)
• Bengali: কুকুরছানা (kukurchana)
• Bulgarian: кученце (bg) n (kučence)
• Burmese: ခွေးကလေး (my) (hkwe:ka.le:)
• Catalan: cadell (ca) m
• Central Dusun: duku
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 狗仔 (gau² zai²)

  Mandarin: 小狗 (zh) (xiǎogǒu)

• Cornish: kolyn
• Crimean Tatar: küçelek, boşıq
• Czech: štěně (cs) n
• Danish: hvalp (da) c
• Dutch: puppy (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: hundido (eo), hundidino
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: pentu (fi), penikka (fi)
• French: chiot (fr) m
• Friulian: nassint m
• Galician: cachorro (gl) m
• Gallurese: catteddu
• Georgian: ლეკვი (leḳvi)
• German: Welpe (de) m, Hündchen (de) n, Hundewelpe (de) m, junger Hund m, Hundebaby n (colloquial)
• Greek: κουτάβι (el) n (koutávi)

  Ancient: κῠνίδιον n (kunídion), σκύλαξ m (skúlax)

• Greenlandic: qimmiaraq
• Hebrew: כלבלב (he) m, כלבלבה f
• Hungarian: kiskutya (hu), kölyökkutya (hu)
• Iban: anak chauk
• Icelandic: hvolpur m
• Ido: hundyuno (io) (♂♀), hundyunulo (♂), hundyunino (♀)
• Ilocano: uken
• Irish: coileáinín m
• Italian: cucciolo (it) m, cagnolino (it) m, cagnetto (it)
• Japanese: 子犬 (こいぬ, koinu)
• Javanese: kirik (jv)
• Kazakh: күшік (küşık)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 강아지 (ko) (gang'aji)
• Lao: ລູກໝາ (lūk mā), ລູກຫມາ (lūk mā)
• Latgalian: kucāns m, sunāns m
• Latin: catulus m, catellus
• Latvian: kucēns m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Macedonian: кученце n (kučence), кутре n (kutre)
• Malay:

  Jawi: انق انجيڠ, انق اسو, کيريق

  Rumi: anak anjing, anak asu, kirik

• Maltese: ġeru m, ġerwa f
• Mazanderani: کتکا (kətkâ)
• Mi'kmaq: lmu'ji'j, nmu'ji'j
• Mongolian: гөлөг (mn) (gölög), нохойн гөлөг (noxojn gölög)
• Montagnais: atimuss
• Navajo: łééchąąyázhí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: valp (no) m

  Nynorsk: kvalp m, kvelp m

• Occitan: cadèl (oc) m, cadèu (oc) m, gosset m, canhòt (oc) m, canhon m
• Old English: hwelp m
• Persian: توله سگ (fa) (tule sag)
• Polish: szczeniak (pl) m, szczenię (pl) n
• Portuguese: filhote de cão m, cachorro (pt) m, cachorrinho (pt) m
• Quechua: allqucha
• Romani: rikono m, zhukeloro m
• Romanian: cățel (ro) m, cățeluș (ro) m
• Russian: щено́к (ru) m (ščenók), (colloquial) цу́цик (ru) m (cúcik)
• Sardinian:

  Campidanese: catteddu, calleddu, cacciurru

  Logudorese: cacciùcciu, catteddu

• Sassarese: catteddu, cucciucciu
• Scottish Gaelic: cuilean m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: штѐне n, штенац m

  Roman: štène (sh) n, šténac (sh) m

• Sicilian: cagnolu (scn) m
• Slovak: šteňa (sk) n
• Slovene: kužek m, ščene n
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: šćenje n

• Southern Altai: кӱчӱк (küčük)
• Spanish: cachorro (es) m, perrito (es) m
• Swedish: hundvalp (sv) c, valp (sv) c
• Tagal Murut: kuku
• Tagalog: tuta'
• Tamil: நாய்க்குட்டி (ta) (nāykkuṭṭi)
• Telugu: కుక్కపిల్ల (te) (kukkapilla)
• Thai: ลูกหมา (lûuk-mǎa)
• Tibetan: ཁྱི་ཕྲུག (khyi phrug), ཨ་ཡོ་འོ (a yo 'o)
• Turkish: köpek yavrusu, enik (tr)
• Ukrainian: цуценя́ (uk) n (cucenjá), щеня́ n (ščenjá)
• Venetian: cagnol
• Vietnamese: chó con, cún, cún con
• Volapük: dogül (vo)
• Walloon: tchinot (wa) m, djonne di tchén m
• Welsh: ci bach (cy) m
• Wolof: kuti bi (wo)

young rat

• Esperanto: ratido
• French: raton (fr) m
• German: Rattenjunges n
• Latin: musculus
• Occitan: raton m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: ratinho (pt) m
• Romanian: raton (ro) m
• Swedish: råttunge (sv) c
• Volapük: ratül

young seal

• Finnish: kuutti (fi)
• German: Heuler (de) m, Robbenbaby (de) n, Robbenjunges n, Seehundjunges n
• Latin: phocula
• Macedonian: фокиче n (fokiče)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Scottish Gaelic: isean m, cuilean m
• Swedish: kut (sv) c
• Volapük: fukül

slang: a woman’s breast

• Persian: پستان (fa)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

Verb

puppy (third-person singular simple present puppies, present participle puppying, simple past and past participle puppied)

1. (transitive) To bring forth whelps or give birth to pups.

Synonyms

• pup
• whelp