watch-dog

English

Noun

watch-dog (plural watch-dogs)

1. 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,

Anagrams

• dog-watch, dog watch, dogwatch