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DOG-SLEEP

Date "DOG-SLEEP" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references)


Specialty Definition: DOG-SLEEP

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Literature

Dog-sleep (A). A pretended sleep. Dogs seem to sleep with "one eye open." Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: DOG-SLEEP

Language Translations for "DOG-SLEEP"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

éber alvás. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

og-sleepday

   

Portuguese

  

sono de cachorro. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

somn de iepure. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

sueño del perro. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

lätt orolig sömn. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

чуткий сон. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

giấc ngủ lơ mơ (drowse), giấc ngủ chập chờn. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: DOG-SLEEP

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-e-g-l-o-p-s"

-1 letter: pledges, splodge.

-2 letters: depose, eloped, elopes, epodes, geodes, gledes, gleeds, gospel, ledges, lodges, pledge, sledge, sloped, speedo.

-3 letters: deeps, deles, doges, doles, dopes, edges, elope, epode, gelds, geode, glede, gleds, gleed, glees, glops, golds, ledge, leges, lodes, lodge, loges, loped, lopes, ogees, ogled, ogles, pedes, peels, peles, plods, poled, poles, posed, sedge, sleep.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-e-g-l-o-p-s"
 

+1 letter: pledgeors.

 

+2 letters: pedologies, ridgepoles.

 

+4 letters: epiglottides.

 

+5 letters: doppelgangers, glycopeptides, misdeveloping, pteridologies.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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