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doghouse
[ dog-hous, dog- ]
noun
- a small shelter for a dog.
- (on a yacht) a small cabin that presents a relatively high profile and gives the appearance of a box. Compare trunk cabin.
- Rocketry Slang. a bulge on the surface of a rocket or missile, for scientific instruments.
doghouse
/ ˈdɒɡˌhaʊs /
noun
- a hutlike shelter for a dog Also called (in Britain and certain other countries)kennel
- informal.disfavour (in the phrase in the doghouse )
Idioms and Phrases
- in the doghouse, Slang. in disfavor or disgrace.
More idioms and phrases containing doghouse
see in the doghouse .Example Sentences
For example, McDonald just installed peel-and-stick patterned vinyl floor tiles from Wayfair in a custom doghouse that she built on her property.
My mother used to make men buy two pieces, one for the occasion and the one for when he would be in the doghouse.
Whatever it is, there's no question that the time lapse between sin and time served in the political doghouse is on the wane.
After months in the doghouse, Mr. Banks is summoned to face what he firmly believes will be the coup de grâce.
The man brought him home for me, and chained him up in an unused wood-shed, for I had no doghouse as yet.
He stuck his nose out of the doghouse and saw four slender, hairy animals.
As soon as the four Weasels had talked things over, they went straight to the chicken coop which stood close to the doghouse.
Poor Pinocchio huddled close to the doghouse more dead than alive from cold, hunger, and fright.
Charley had currently burned out a transformer by some careless and exuberant antic; hence the mutual doghouse.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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