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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Dogfood n. [Microsoft, Netscape] Interim software used internally for testing. "To eat one's own dogfood" (from which the slang noun derives) means to use the software one is developing, as part of one's everyday development environment (the phrase is used outside Microsoft and Netscape). The practice is normal in the Linux community and elsewhere, but the term `dogfood' is seldom used as open-source betas tend to be quite tasty and nourishing. The idea is that developers who are using their own software will quickly learn what's missing or broken. Dogfood is typically not even of beta quality. Source: Jargon File. |
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| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Could you scare up another round for our table over here? And tell the cook this is low grade dogfood. I've had better food at the ballgame, you know? (Caddyshack; writing credit: Brian Doyle-Murray; Harold Ramis) | |
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| "DOGFOOD" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DOGFOOD" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "DOGFOOD"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Manx | bee moddee (dog's meat). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ogfoodday | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-f-g-o-o-o" | |
-3 letters: dodo, food, good, goof. | |
-4 letters: dog, fog, god, goo, odd. | |
-5 letters: do, go, od, of. | |
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