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 Translation for 'lap dog' from English to Swedish
NOUN   a lap dog | lap dogs
knähund {u} [även bildl.]lap dog [also fig.]
Partial Matches
sköte {n} [knä]lap
zool.T
hund {u}
dog
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zool.
honhund {u}
she-dog
zool.
honhund {u}
female dog
hundfoder {n}dog food
hundbur {u}dog crate
vakthund {u}guard dog
polishund {u}police dog
hundvakt {u}dog sitter
hundvakt {u}dog-sitter
räddn.
sökhund {u}
search dog
räddn.
spårhund {u}
tracker dog
arbete
hundförare {u}
dog handler
bergsbes.räddn.
lavinhund {u}
avalanche dog
gatuhund {u}stray dog
gatuhund {u}street dog
zool.
hanhund {u}
male dog
ledarhund {u}guide dog
hundägare {u}dog owner
zool.
hundras {u}
dog breed
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Usage Examples English
  • "The Lady with the Lap Dog", and "Anna Around the Neck" (adapted from Anton Chekhov) were commissioned and produced by the Piven Theatre Workshop in 2001.
  • Although the Bichon breed type are originally Spanish, used as sailing dogs, also as herding dogs sometimes, the French developed them into a gentle lap-dog variety.
  • In a Seoul subway car, a young woman's lap dog defecated inside the train, and the woman was photographed on another passenger's mobile phone camera after she did not clean up the mess despite numerous requests.
  • The relationship between the TV version of Austin and Oscar was much friendlier than the literary counterpart, although numerous episodes show Austin being frustrated at being a "bionic lap dog" for the OSI.
  • Another is Martial's epigram (Book I number CIX) on a lap dog, which refers to Catullus 2 specifically ("Issa est passere nequior Catulli", "Issa dog is naughtier than Catullus's sparrow").

  • A lap dog or lapdog 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 doing so.
  • He won the Derby twice more, with Election in 1807 and with Lap-dog in 1826.
  • Whalebone sired the Derby winners Lap-dog, Spaniel and may have been the sire of Moses.
  • Probably the client or the artist thought that the arrangement was too provocative, so Venus' head was turned, and a lap dog added to give her something to look at, and also touch, so reinforcing any allegory of the senses that might be intended.
  • Azawakhs have a range of temperaments from lap dog to quite fierce.

  • "The Lap Dog EP" was released in 2012.
  • In the following century, Charles Robert Leslie's 1854 period piece, "Sir Plume Demands the Restoration of the Lock", takes place in a cluttered drawing room in which the kind of lap dog present in many previous pictures feeds from a dish on the floor.
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