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Meanings of dirty dog in English

Portuguese
fulano
Catalan
cabró
Spanish
perro

A person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible.

      fulano

      Someone who is morally reprehensible.

            Usage of dirty dog in English
            1
            Just this: The O.R.& T. treated me like a dirty dog.
            O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921
            2
            If I knew the dirty dog, I would put a ball through him.
            The Expressman and the Detective
            3
            He is rather a dirty dog, and his technique is so ridiculously transparent.
            South Wind
            4
            There are always three main characters-the husband, the wife, and the dirty dog.
            The Complete Short Stories Vol. 1
            5
            A dirty dog is a nuisance not to be borne.
            The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 10,...
            6
            Thereupon a dozen fellows rushed into the shop, exclaiming, Where is the dirty dog?
            The Goose Man
            7
            That shows what kind of a dirty dog he is!
            The Call of the Beaver Patrol; Or, A Break in the Glacier
            8
            You let that dirty dog keep you too long.
            Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
            9
            To this dirty dog, madam, who has given me such trouble to look for him.
            One Hundred Merrie And Delightsome Stories / Right Pleasaunte To...
            10
            The dirty dog ought not to get off so lightly, besides I needed the money.
            The Clown
            11
            For once and for all, I am not having a dirty dog in my house!
            Dogsbody
            12
            The man flying it is an extremely dirty dog.
            Finders Keepers
            13
            I figured Merrill's top management would be on me like fleas on a dirty dog.
            Confessions of a wall street analyst: a true story of inside inf...
            14
            A dirty dog may wash in a duck-pond.
            The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Volume 5
            15
            Did you slit his throat, the dirty dog?
            Now It Can Be Told
            16
            You can't win ribbons with a dirty dog.
            The burglar who liked to quote kipling
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            Translations for dirty dog
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            fulano
            Spanish
            perro
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