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Dogs

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Isle of Dogs. When Greenwich was a place of royal residence, the kennel for the monarch’s hounds was on the opposite side of the river, hence called the “Isle of Dogs.”

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Dog-rose
Dog-sick
Dog-sleep (A)
Dog-star
Dog-vane (A)
Dog-watch
Dog-whipper (A)
Dog-whipping Day
Dogs (a military term)
Dogs
Dogs
Dogs (Green)
Dogs-ears
Dogs-meat
Dog’s-nose
Dogged
Dogged
Dogaressa (g = j)
Dogberry
Doge
Dogget