dog, adv. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

dog adv.

utterly, completely.

1593		Shakespeare Taming of the Shrew IV ii: I have watch’d so long That I’m dog-weary.
1689		R. L’Estrange Erasmus Colloquies 112: I was so Dog-weary.
1824		J. Wight Mornings in Bow St. 152: [T]hese thirteen volumes would be a handsome addition to his little circulating library, and that at a shilling a piece they were certainly ‘dog cheap’.
1834		‘The Small-Coal Man’ in London Eve. Standard 22 Dec. 4/4: He says as how, ven he gets controul, / He’ll make all things dog-cheap — but coal .
1857		Bell’s Life in Victoria (Melbourne) 4 Apr. 3/6: Deuce an officer there but had a squint at her [i.e. a racehorse], and all passed their verdict, that she was dog-cheap.
1867		G.W. Harris Sut Lovingood’s Yarns 262: Sich feedin as that war [...] I gets dorg hongry every time I sees Wirt’s wife.
1904		Sun. Times (Perth) 6 Mar. 5/3: The Dog-Mean Secretary [...] has just committed another contemptible piece of meanness.
1907		Sun. Times (Perth) 1 Sept. 1/1: The public are dog-weary of Stubbs and secession.
1946		R. Grinstead They Dug a Hole 39: It’s going to be dog rough, you know.
1960		J.D. Macdonald Slam the Big Door (1961) 52: You too dog-lazy to han’ me that bottle, J.C.?
1965		L. Dunne Goodbye to The Hill (1966) 144: He could only have been thinking that I looked dog rough.
2001		G. Coughlan Everyday Eng. and Sl. 🌐 Be dog wide (phr): be extra vigilant.
2005		R. Wilkinson Impact of Inequality 171: Rotherham’s just dog rough now, it’s fuckin’ dog rough man. All you get . . . is people eyein’ yer all time.
2010		L. Redhead Thrill City [ebook] I learned that female PIs [...] swear like wharfies, urinate frequently and dress dog-ugly.
2019		A. Parks February’s Son 109: ‘Whoever he is, he [...] [s]ounded dog rough’.

In compounds

dog-drunk (adj.)

very drunk.

1619		Fletcher Humorous Lieutenant I i: Would I were drunk dog-drunk, I might not feel this.
1859		‘Skitt’ Fisher’s River 254: So ongentlemanly dog-drunk.
1929		L. Axley ‘Drunk’ Again’ in AS IV:6 441: A few similes, more or less slanderous, are: ‘dog-drunk,’ ‘drunk as a b’iled owl’ .
1935		E.W. Calder ‘Black 13’ in Spicy Adventure Stories Aug. 🌐 You were accused of being dog-drunk at the time.
1942		Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Sl.
1957		‘Weldon Hill’ Onionhead (1958) 103: ‘Wildoe’s dog-drunk [...] He’s out cold’.
1997		R. Bragg All Over but the Shoutin’ 196: nother man, a man named Gallo I found staggering dog drunk from a whorehouse, told me a joke.
2021		A. Parks April Dead 121: ‘That place [i.e. a pub] is dog rough’.

dog-poor (adj.)

(Aus./US) extremely poor, financially or of condition.

1886		J. Miller Destruction of Gotham 136: Hattie Lane is poor – dog poor.
1902		Bulletin (Sydney) 23 Aug. 14/4: I noticed an old fellow hanging up to the old fence – a big, dark, chestnut horse with a white hind foot. His legs were a wreck, and he was dog-poor.

dog-sick (adj.)

see …a dog under sick as… adj.

dog-tired (adj.)

utterly exhausted; also in fig. use meaning extremely fed up.

1838		T. Hood ‘Hit or Miss’ in Works (1862) IV 258: Last Monday he came home to Tooting, / Dog-tired, as if he’d been shooting.
1865		H. Kingsley Hillyars and Burtons (1870) 30: My falling asleep dog-tired at supper.
1883		R.L. Stevenson Treasure Island 77: I was dog-tired.
1890		Sporting Times 19 Apr. 3/1: He was what our trans-Atlantic cousins call ‘dead dog tired’.
1903		J. Furphy Such is Life 183: Many’s the time I wish I was with him, for I’m dog-tired of everything.
1924		H.L. Wilson Professor How Could You! 233: She was dog-tired and would like to hit the good old hay.
1934		J. Franklyn This Gutter Life 61: Ohhh, I’m dog tired!
1940		E. O’Neill Long Day’s Journey into Night Act III: I’m dog tired.
1948		L.T.C. Rolt Sleep No More (1994) 10: They accepted readily, being in truth dog-tired.
1962		R. Hauser Homosexual Society 86: I know that George is always dog-tired too.
1972		D. Jenkins Semi-Tough 236: When he’s beat up and sore and whip-dog tired and mentally wrung out from the game.
1996		(ref. to 1963) D. Healy Bend for Home 218: I was dog tired.
2001		C. Stella Eddie’s World 46: Please, Diane. I’m dog-tired, I got things to do today.
2000		R.G. Barrett Leaving Bondi (2013) [ebook] He felt dog-tired.

dog-wallop (v.) [wallop v. (3)]

(Aus.) to beat comprehensively.

1901

Bulletin (Sydney) 7 Sept. 24/1: Sir Leonard would look promising but for the fact that he was easily ‘dog-walloped’ at Rosehill a week before by Grasspan.