Puppy
noun
A young dog.
The puppy wagged its tail when it saw its owner.
Often appears as...
- puppy dog
- puppy love
noun
A person who is young, inexperienced, or new in a certain field.
He's still a puppy in the world of acting, with only a few minor roles to his name.
Often appears as...
- green as a puppy
- be a puppy
Usage tips
Informal, Approving
noun
A term of endearment for a loved one, especially a young child.
Come here, my little puppy, I've got a surprise for you!
Often appears as...
- my little puppy
- sweet puppy
Usage tips
Informal, Approving
Colloquial
noun
A young dog.
The puppy wagged its tail when it saw its owner.
Often appears as...
- puppy dog
- puppy love
noun
A person who is young, inexperienced, or new in a certain field.
He's still a puppy in the world of acting, with only a few minor roles to his name.
Often appears as...
- green as a puppy
- be a puppy
Usage tips
Informal, Approving
noun
A term of endearment for a loved one, especially a young child.
Come here, my little puppy, I've got a surprise for you!
Often appears as...
- my little puppy
- sweet puppy
Usage tips
Informal, Approving
Colloquial
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Age Specific
Refers to young dogs, not adult ones. A puppy becomes a dog around one year old.
After its first birthday, the puppy is considered an adult dog.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotionally Charged
'Puppy' often elicits a warm, affectionate response and suggests innocence and playfulness.
Seeing the puppies at the shelter made everyone smile.
Pro Tip 3/3Offspring Number
Dogs can have multiple puppies in one litter, differentiating from human single births.
The mother dog had a litter of seven puppies.
Pro Tip 1/3Age Specific
Refers to young dogs, not adult ones. A puppy becomes a dog around one year old.
After its first birthday, the puppy is considered an adult dog.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotionally Charged
'Puppy' often elicits a warm, affectionate response and suggests innocence and playfulness.
Seeing the puppies at the shelter made everyone smile.
Pro Tip 3/3Offspring Number
Dogs can have multiple puppies in one litter, differentiating from human single births.
The mother dog had a litter of seven puppies.
Pro Tip 1/3Age Specific
Refers to young dogs, not adult ones. A puppy becomes a dog around one year old.
After its first birthday, the puppy is considered an adult dog.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotionally Charged
'Puppy' often elicits a warm, affectionate response and suggests innocence and playfulness.
Seeing the puppies at the shelter made everyone smile.
Pro Tip 3/3Offspring Number
Dogs can have multiple puppies in one litter, differentiating from human single births.
The mother dog had a litter of seven puppies.
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Rescuing Adorable Grey...
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Puppy Adopted By Cat...
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Baby Orphan Fox Rescue PIPE...
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Esther Perel: The...
creating things, making things out of nothing. Because when you see life emerge in front of you or something change in front of you, it functions as an antidote to deadness and to stress. It's true. I can't tell you how many of my friends have adopted puppies
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The real meaning of soul...
hard-headed about soul you might as well try being hard-headed about puppies because lots of people have tried nonetheless descartes for instance he of I think therefore I am was convinced the soul was a physical
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them is to actually just let them have a natural life without being interfered from marine litter from public disturbance and just generally not getting in their way when we first get a puppy and we do a
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Ted Yoho
American Politician
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W. Bruce Cameron
American Author
My advice to anybody, including myself, is if you're going through a bad period, and you just can't see the world's on your shoulders and no day is a good day, you're missing the whole point of the experience. And that's something dogs know from the moment they come bounding up to you as a puppy.
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Gabrielle Union
American Actress
Right now, I don't have the same urges as other women when they see a baby. When I see children, I see responsibilities, which I don't think I'm quite ready for. I feel the same about puppies. They're cute for a second, but there's a lot of responsibility involved.
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Johnny Depp
American Actor
America is dumb. It's like a dumb puppy that has big teeth that can bite and hurt you - aggressive. My daughter is four; my boy is one. I'd like them to see America as a toy - a broken toy. Investigate it a little, check it out, get this feeling, and then get out.
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Robert Herjavec
Canadian Businessman
If you are under the illusion that you can start a business and run it at your life's schedule, you are mistaken. The business is like a starving puppy - when it needs to eat, then it needs to eat regardless of what you have going on personally.
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Jimmy Fallon
American Comedian
I want to be a dad. That's floating to the top of my list. I think it's such an important thing. I'm at the age where everyone has kids, and I ask them, 'Is it like a puppy?' And they go, 'It's 10 times a puppy.
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Maya Angelou
American Poet
Whenever I want to laugh, I read a wonderful book, 'Children's Letters to God.' You can open it anywhere. One I read recently said, 'Dear God, thank you for the baby brother, but what I prayed for was a puppy.
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Yvonne Strahovski
Australian Actress
I think it's really important that people become aware of the amount, the mass of animals that are sitting in shelters as opposed to people going out and just buying puppies that are being bred.
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Patina Miller
American Actress
I've always wanted a Maltese-poodle, but I've always been really busy. So I said once I'm back in the city and the 'Sister Act' stuff dies down, I'm going to get a puppy.
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Yungblud
English Musician
I like to say I'm like a puppy in a room of cats.
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Ted Yoho
American Politician
Having an animal that you fix, knowing that you saved its life or you saved a pet - Like on a dog, these little kids will come, and their dog is just ready to die, and you do something, and they leave happy. The kids are happy, and the little puppy is licking your hand. Those are kind of neat feelings.
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W. Bruce Cameron
American Author
My advice to anybody, including myself, is if you're going through a bad period, and you just can't see the world's on your shoulders and no day is a good day, you're missing the whole point of the experience. And that's something dogs know from the moment they come bounding up to you as a puppy.
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Gabrielle Union
American Actress
Right now, I don't have the same urges as other women when they see a baby. When I see children, I see responsibilities, which I don't think I'm quite ready for. I feel the same about puppies. They're cute for a second, but there's a lot of responsibility involved.
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Johnny Depp
American Actor
America is dumb. It's like a dumb puppy that has big teeth that can bite and hurt you - aggressive. My daughter is four; my boy is one. I'd like them to see America as a toy - a broken toy. Investigate it a little, check it out, get this feeling, and then get out.
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Robert Herjavec
Canadian Businessman
If you are under the illusion that you can start a business and run it at your life's schedule, you are mistaken. The business is like a starving puppy - when it needs to eat, then it needs to eat regardless of what you have going on personally.
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Jimmy Fallon
American Comedian
I want to be a dad. That's floating to the top of my list. I think it's such an important thing. I'm at the age where everyone has kids, and I ask them, 'Is it like a puppy?' And they go, 'It's 10 times a puppy.
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Maya Angelou
American Poet
Whenever I want to laugh, I read a wonderful book, 'Children's Letters to God.' You can open it anywhere. One I read recently said, 'Dear God, thank you for the baby brother, but what I prayed for was a puppy.
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Yvonne Strahovski
Australian Actress
I think it's really important that people become aware of the amount, the mass of animals that are sitting in shelters as opposed to people going out and just buying puppies that are being bred.
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Patina Miller
American Actress
I've always wanted a Maltese-poodle, but I've always been really busy. So I said once I'm back in the city and the 'Sister Act' stuff dies down, I'm going to get a puppy.
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Yungblud
English Musician
I like to say I'm like a puppy in a room of cats.
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