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名詞

lapdog (plural lapdogs)

1. Alternative spelling of lap dog.
   • 2024 November 25, Max Brockman, “P.I. Undercover: New York” (11:26 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows‎, season 6, episode 8, spoken by Laszlo Cravensworth (Matt Berry):

     “Doesn't matter. That man is not the leader.” “But he is the main guy on the show.” “He is an actor, Nandor. A simpleton who paints his face. He is an empty-headed puppet who thinks the world loves him, when in actual fact, he is nothing more than a lapdog begging for scraps.” [groans] “No, he is not the leader. That would be another devil who pulls the strings. The halfwit they call the director.”

派生語

別の表記

• lap-dog, lapdog

発音

• IPA: /ˈlæpdɒɡ/

名詞

lap dog (plural lap dogs)

1. A small toy dog, kept as household pet, whose light weight and companionable temperament make it both suited and disposed to spend time resting in the comfort of its master's lap; a dog bred to behave in this manner.
   • 1766, [Oliver Goldsmith], chapter XVII, in The Vicar of Wakefield: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Salisbury, Wiltshire: […] B. Collins, for F[rancis] Newbery, […], →OCLC:

     A lady loses her muff, her fan, or her lap-dog, and so the silly poet runs home to versify the disaster.

   • 1785, William Cowper, “Book I. The Sofa.”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson;  […], →OCLC, page 3:

     There might ye ſee the pioney ſpread vvide, / The full-blovvn roſe, the ſhepherd and his laſs, / Lap-dog and lambkin vvith black ſtaring eyes, / And parrots vvith tvvin cherries in their beak.

   • 1889, F. Marion Crawford, chapter 4, in Greifenstein:

     Frau von Greifenstein had seated herself in a straw chair with her parasol, her fan and her lap-dog, a little toy terrier which was always suffering from some new and unheard-of nervous complaint.

   • 2007 December 1, Harry Hurt III, “Proof That Overscheduled Modern Life Isn’t Fit for a Dog”, in New York Times, retrieved 5 December 2011:

     Steffi is a tricolor King Charles spaniel, an archetypal lap dog and love sponge, barely a foot high and no more than 10 pounds.

2. (figurative) A person who behaves in a servile manner, such as a sycophantic employee or a fawning lover.

   Synonyms: ass-kisser, bootlicker, sycophant, toady

   • 1908–1910, E[dward] M[organ] Forster, chapter 16, in Howards End, New York, N.Y., London: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons […], published 1910, →OCLC:

     As a lady's lap-dog Leonard did not excel. He was not an Italian, still less a Frenchman.

   • 2007 October 28, Dan Bilefsky, “The special relationship tries to swim the Channel”, in The New York Times‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who vacations in Cape Cod, has nevertheless been […] determined to shed the image of his predecessor, Tony Blair, as America’s lap dog.

     (Can we archive this URL?)

   • 2014, Charles Seife, “Capture”, in John Brockman, editor, What Should We be Worried About?, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 36:

     This process, known as "regulatory capture," turns regulators from watchdogs into lapdogs.

   • 2024 November 25, Max Brockman, “P.I. Undercover: New York” (11:26 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows‎, season 6, episode 8, spoken by Laszlo Cravensworth (Matt Berry):

     “Doesn't matter. That man is not the leader.” “But he is the main guy on the show.” “He is an actor, Nandor. A simpleton who paints his face. He is an empty-headed puppet who thinks the world loves him, when in actual fact, he is nothing more than a lapdog begging for scraps.” [groans] “No, he is not the leader. That would be another devil who pulls the strings. The halfwit they call the director.”

派生語

• lapdoggery
• lap-doggy