dog vs weathercock

dog

noun
  • Someone who is cowardly, worthless, or morally reprehensible. 

  • A hot dog: a frankfurter, wiener, or similar sausage; or a sandwich made from this. 

  • A male dog, wolf, or fox, as opposed to a bitch or vixen. 

  • The meat of this animal, eaten as food 

  • A flop; a film that performs poorly at the box office. 

  • A man, guy, chap. 

  • The eighteenth Lenormand card. 

  • One of the cones used to divide up a racetrack when training horses. 

  • Something that performs poorly. 

  • Any member of the family Canidae, including domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, jackals, foxes, and their relatives (extant and extinct); canid. 

  • A click or pallet adapted to engage the teeth of a ratchet wheel, to restrain the back action. 

  • A sexually aggressive man. 

  • Underdog. 

  • Foot. 

  • The species Canis familiaris (sometimes designated Canis lupus familiaris), domesticated for thousands of years and of highly variable appearance because of human breeding. 

  • A dull, unattractive girl or woman. 

  • A metal support for logs in a fireplace. 

  • (from "dog and bone") Phone or mobile phone. 

  • Any of various mechanical devices for holding, gripping, or fastening something, particularly with a tooth-like projection. 

adj
  • Of inferior quality; dogshit. 

verb
  • To intentionally restrict one's productivity as employee; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished. 

  • To criticize. 

  • To pursue with the intent to catch. 

  • To divide (a watch) with a comrade. 

  • To fasten a hatch securely. 

  • To watch, or participate, in sexual activity in a public place. 

  • To follow in an annoying or harassing way. 

weathercock

noun
  • One who veers with every change of current opinion; a fickle, inconstant person. 

  • A weather vane, sometimes in the form of a cockerel. 

  • A kind of wind pump whose top behaves like a weather vane, moving with the wind direction, but which also has a wheel attached to measure wind speed. 

verb
  • To act as a weathercock for. 

  • To turn upwind because of the difference in water pressure on two sides. 

  • To veer into the direction of the oncoming (relative) wind. 

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