lap dog

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A small toy dog, kept as household pet, whose light weight and companionable temperament make it both suited and disposed to spend time resting in the comfort of its master's lap; a dog bred to behave in this manner.

   “A lady loses her muff, her fan, or her lap-dog, and so the silly poet runs home to versify the disaster.”

2. isim A person who behaves in a servile manner, such as a sycophantic employee or a fawning lover.

   “As a lady's lap-dog Leonard did not excel. He was not an Italian, still less a Frenchman.”