Words We Get from Dogs
The Bark e-zine has an article about some common English words that originally came from terms used for dogs.
The word sleuth, in fact, is a perfect example: A few hundred years ago, speakers of English used the term sleuthhound as a synonym for ?Bloodhound??a breed distinguished, of course, by its keen sense of smell and intense focus when sniffing out quarry. By the 1800s, people had begun shortening sleuthhound to sleuth, and applying it to equally dogged human investigators. More…
Can you guess where the words muse, canary, feisty, and adulation came from? Read the article to find out.
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