watch-dog

English

Noun

watch-dog (plural watch-dogs)

Alternative spelling of watchdog
- 1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, (please specify either |part=I or II):
  Where was their favorite pasture. Behind them followed the watch-dog,
  Patient, full of importance, and grand in the pride of his instinct,

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