caninophile

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

"What was the name of her father, the old banker who made love to his dog and wintered in Portugal – a caninophile, gone in the tooth, gone in the wind?"
"Of course Justice Mariner is something of a caninophile himself, never mind that Stong, his idiot golden retriever, is now in Penny Mariner's sole custody and I am actually the loyal companion animal […]"
"I am as much of a caninophile as the next Englishman. I had a beagle at the time, name of Biggles, and I adored him as if he were my own child, almost."

From canine + -o- + -phile.

caninophiles (plural)

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