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/wˈɑtʃdˌɔg/ Listen

Watchdog

noun

A guardian or defender against theft or illegal practices or waste.

A dog trained to guard property. Synonym: guard dog.

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Etymology of 'Watchdog'

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"Watchdog" Quotes from Famous Books

... the Paris square, and of all other such enclosures down to the domestic enclosures of my own dog and donkey. All had the same design, the marking out of a square for the experiment of liberty; of the old civic liberty or the later universal liberty. I knew, to take the domestic metaphor, that the watchdog of the West had again proved too strong for the wild dogs of the Orient. For the foes of such creative limits are chaos and old night, whether they are the Northern barbarism that pitted tribal pride and brutal drill against ...

— The New Jerusalem • G. K. Chesterton

... stallion, the whole herd will revenge him, and almost always destroy the wolves; who, however, generally try to avoid these great battles, and chase a mare or foal separated from the rest, creep up to them, imitating a watchdog, and wagging their tails, spring at the throat of the mare; and then the foal is carried off. Even this will not always succeed, and if the mare give alarm, the wolf is pursued by herd and keeper, and his only chance of escape is to throw himself head-foremost ...

— Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals • R. Lee

Words linked to "Watchdog" : attack dog, guardian, defender, pinscher, kuvasz, schipperke, housedog, protector, shielder, working dog