Doug "Dawg" Munford
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Jun 2, 2021 · In the late 19th and early 20th century, the accepted pronunciation of dog among educated Americans was /dɑg/, with the vowel of dock, and /dɔɡ/, with the vowel of dawn, was a non-standard pronunciation. You can see this because dictionaries from this period gave the pronunciation [dɑɡ]. Authors would use the spelling dawg to indicate that ...
dawg (plural dawgs) Eye dialect spelling of dog; also hound dawg. That dawg won't hunt. (slang) Dude, bud, pal. used to address a close male friend. Sup, dawg. As far as I know the word comes from the African American vernacular and was popularized in the 90ies by various rappers. The particular use you quote is just a play on dog and dawg.
Oct 7, 2012 · From Etymonline: doggone 1851, Amer.Eng., a "fantastic perversion of god-damned" [Weekley]. But Mencken favors the theory that it is "a blend form of dog on it; in fact it is still often used with it following. It is thus a brother to the old English phrase, 'a pox upon it,' but is considerably more decorous."
Jan 17, 2014 · What's up dog is slang - also spelled wazzup dawg or just wazzup. Completely normal question to a peer, to ask how is life. The "dog" is not demeaning in this case. The original statement was "What's up doc" from Bugs Bunny, so a decade or more ago the joke would be something like. "Hey I saw updoc outside!"
Dec 25, 2011 · It is southern US slang, originally that old dog won't hunt meaning something just isn't going to happen. The Facts on File Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer says: that dog won't hunt. This idea or excuse won't work.This folksy expression originated in the American South, where dogs are commonly used to hunt raccoons and other wild animals.
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“What’s up?” is a greeting whose meaning is mostly irrelevant in that the asker doesn’t want an answer to the literal question which means something like “What is new?” or “What’s happening (right now/in your life)?”.
Feb 2, 2015 · 78. There are two similar phrases for this. One is "I don't have a horse in this race" and another is "I don't have a dog in this fight." Both mean basically what you said--that the person saying the phrase doesn't personally have anything at stake in a situation. Good thing they chose dog fighting for the second one.
Jul 15, 2015 · I am a non-native speaker from Germany. In German there's one idiom that goes: Sich die Eier schaukeln Literally translated, this means "to rock the eggs", where "the eggs" are testicles. This is
Mar 28, 2012 · Mar 28, 2012 at 2:41. 1. As far as I know, dogs just lie around and nap because they work like dogs all day. – yoozer8. Mar 28, 2012 at 3:27. 5. When it comes to just lying around and napping, dogs aren't even in the running. Bad idiom there - actually dogs are the ones energetically running around, while cats stick to the important things ...
