lapdog's Usage Examples:

spaniel name may have been given due to its resemblance to the bred-down lapdog versions of the hunting spaniels, such as the Cavalier King Charles spaniel.

According to Kate Lechmere, the financial backer of Blast and the Rebel Art Centre, Dismorr had a difficult relationship with Wyndham Lewis, and was, along with fellow artist Helen Saunders, one of the little lapdogs who wanted to be Lewis’s slaves and do everything for him.

shape due to selective breeding and includes the tiny Russian and Mexican lapdogs as well as famous racing greyhounds.

" ^ Suspicion over lapdogs was a fixture in misogynistic satire.

however, probably refers to one of the Queen Anne Catherine of Brandenburg"s lapdogs and the vessel is also referenced as Hunden ("Dog") and Skjodehunden ("Lapdog").

of the plunder gained during the ransacking of the Summer Palace five lapdogs were seized.

Tolentino and Onofre Pagsanghan representing the Filipinos who became bootlickers and lapdogs of the colonial masters named as such, characterized by their.

As for the lapdogs, the American painter Francis Davis Millet wrote disapprovingly in a letter.

tails (lapdogs?) and prick-eared curs, and small ladies puppies that bear away the fleas and diverse small sorts".

A lapdog or lap dog is a dog that is both small enough to be held in the arms or lie comfortably on a person"s lap and temperamentally predisposed to do.

Many dogs, despite acting as lapdogs in the home, do well in sports such as weight pull and flirt pole.

satire might have been related to portrayal of the queen"s councillors as lapdogs.

As for the lapdogs, the American painter Francis Davis Millet wrote disapprovingly in a letter sent from Titanic"s last stop, Queenstown in Ireland, "Looking.

Synonyms:

dog, Canis familiaris, domestic dog,