seadog

[ see-dawg, -dog ]

noun

1. fogbow ( def ).
2. sea dog ( def ).

seadog

/ ˈsiːˌdɒɡ /

noun

1. another word for fogbow fogdog

Word History and Origins

Origin of seadog¹

First recorded in 1815–25; sea + dog

Example Sentences

A 66-year-old nonmonogamous man who goes by Seadog described a similar shift with one of his regular partners.

From Salon

And yet, it seems highly unlikely that Disney would consider transforming the swashbuckling series into a scurvy seadog take on Albert Nobbs even if that story is surely a fascinating one that will one day be told far away from the world of blockbuster cinema.

From The Guardian

His beauty, still present, is hollowed out and exhausted in harsh monochrome, pockmarked and saddled with scraggly sailor’s moustache: Whether beating up seagulls or raging through ugly exchanges of deep-stewed 19th-century seadog vernacular, it’s a role that, on the face of it, seems all but tailored for someone trying to shed a teen-idol stigma.

From The Guardian

She was too old a seadog to learn new tricks.

From Literature

When a columnist wrote a nasty piece dismissing the First Bloke as a “hipster salty seadog,” he tweeted a picture of himself holding a fish and calling it another bottom feeder.

From New York Times