lapdog

(ˈlæpˌdɒɡ)

1. (Breeds) a pet dog small and docile enough to be cuddled in the lap

2. informal a person who attaches himself or herself to someone in admiration or infatuation

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Noun

lapdog - a dog small and tame enough to be held in the lap

Canis familiaris, dog, domestic dog - a member of the genus Canis (probably descended from the common wolf) that has been domesticated by man since prehistoric times; occurs in many breeds; "the dog barked all night"

Translations

cagnolino da salotto

lapdog

[ˈlæpdɒg] N → perro m faldero

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

lapdog

[ˈlæpdɒg] n → chien m d'appartement

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

lapdog

[ˈlæpˌdɒg] n → cagnolino da salotto (fig) (person) → cagnolino

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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With the Farmer came his Lapdog, who danced about and licked his hand and frisked about as happy as could be.

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Here a pair of lovers met to quarrel and make up; there a dark-eyed nursery-maid had better eyes for Templars than her charge; on this hand an ancient spinster, with her lapdog in a string, regarded both enormities with scornful sidelong looks; on that a weazen old gentleman, ogling the nursery-maid, looked with like scorn upon the spinster, and wondered she didn't know she was no longer young.

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He handed her over as if she had been a lapdog. "I'll send her to school yet," he said, but now he was smiling.

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Hindi watchdog yang PPCRV eh, they are more of a lapdog,' Atienza said at the Kapihan sa Manila Bay forum.

Atienza gives stinging rebuke to PPCRV: You're a lapdog, not watchdog

He said: "This is just a further instance of a Labour politician still acting as a lapdog for the major developers.

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"The last five years have shown the Labour Party to be a lapdog rather than a watchdog.

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Mr Johnson said: "He's a kind of shield, he's a lapdog who has been skinned and turned into a shield to protect the...."

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London mayor Boris Johnson has described his party's coalition partners as "lapdogs who have become a fig leaf" during a rousing speech in Abu Dhabi on Monday night.

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Canada will pay a very high price politically and economically for being Washington's lapdog.

Irrelevant foreign policy

But in the case of Iraq we know exactly who to blame; George W Bush and his lapdog Tony Blair.

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AS KELVIN reluctant to wrong by ignoring Lord Justice Taylor, accept Bernard Ingham's events, and persists Thatcher's lapdog Sun that is boycotted Why not every media employs him?James As a PS, thank you Steve Rotheram for your genuine grief.

Predictable disaster; You Say Email:letters@liverpoolecho.co.uk