dogsicle

English

Etymology

dog +‎ -sicle

Noun

dogsicle (plural dogsicles)

1. (informal, humorous) A cold or frozen dog.
   • 2004, Cindy Adams, The Gift of Jazzy, page 220:

     If this had been Noriega's old powerful glory days, my Jazzy could have ended up a dogsicle.

   • 2009, Berkeley Breathed, chapter 12, in Flawed Dogs: The Novel: The Shocking Raid on Westminster:

     My fur catches the flakes like Velcro and I freeze into a dogsicle.

   • 2010, Terry Bain, You Are a Dog: Life Through the Eyes of Man's Best Friend, page 28:

     Though you weren't cold, you were shivering like a dogsicle.

See also

• catsicle