Who on earth calls their feet “dogs”? I’ve also never heard of “putting on the dog”, but that’s probably just because. 🐶
Calling feet dogs is outdated, but used to be pretty common, especially saying “my dogs are tired.” They even reference it in old cartoons. A character will take off their shoes and their feet will turn into barking dogs.
Only heard feet referred to as dogs in american tv, never in real life, the phrase “my dogs are barking” messing the person’sfeet were sore, bloody odd if you ask me
Yeah - I reckon it must be an American thing.
AH yes - I thought it must be an American thing.
In Swiss German, slippers are called “finches”, so there’s that.
I love how the author went out of his way not to mention dogging
Or “what’s up, dawg?”
If I were to have guessed I would have said squid came from both squalo meaning shark and squamata for reptiles like snakes. A squid is like a snake shark, so squa-ish. Add some shift in sounds over the centuries and it becomes squid.
A squid is like a snake shark
How dare you!
