Doghole

Quick meaning: Doghole is a noun meaning (idiomatic, derogatory) A place regarded as fit only for dogs: a horrid, mean habitation.

Meaning

(idiomatic, derogatory) A place regarded as fit only for dogs: a horrid, mean habitation.

More Meanings

1. A small, shallow bay or inlet, usually surrounded by high cliffs, that is accessible only by smaller boats.
2. (mining, slang) A mine worked by fewer than fifteen miners, which is small enough that some safety laws do not apply.
3. (mining) An excavated area that acts as an access hole or that connects different parts of a mine.
4. A tiny, uncomfortable hole or cell, usually too small to stand in, in which prisoners are confined as punishment.
5. An underground bolthole dug to hide from enemy soldiers.
6. One of the entrances to a system of prairie dog tunnels.
7. A type of small schooner designed in the 19th century to navigate in shallow waters and to conduct coastal shipping in and out of doghole ports.

Example Sentences

Ft . Ross was a popular doghole, but its anchorage was discovered much earlier.

I am proud to welcome you to my house, though 'tis but a doghole, may it please your Grace, a mere doghole.

These "Doghole” coves were "not much bigger than a hole a dog might crawl into, squirm around and crawl out again."

Nice was then no glamorous watering hole but a 'doghole' – 'the most doghole I think that be in world', so Mason wrote to Pate.

Word Forms

• dogholes
• dogholing
• dogholed

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include doghouse, hole, kennel, bolthole, crib, bolt-hole.

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