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What is the difference between doghouse and kennel?

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Kennel is a synonym of doghouse.



As nouns the difference between doghouse and kennel

is that doghouse is any small house or structure or enclosure used to house a dog while kennel is a house or shelter for a dog.

As a verb kennel is

to house or board a dog (or less commonly another animal).

doghouse

English

(wikipedia doghouse)

Noun

  • Any small house or structure or enclosure used to house a dog.
  • * 1902 , Thomas Dixon, The Leopard's Spots: A Romance of the White Man's Burden--1865-1900 , page 61
    • "But, honey, whar yo' ole man gwine ter sleep?" "Dey's straw in de barn, en pine shatters in de doghouse !" she shouted, slamming the window.
  • A structure of small size, similar to a doghouse, but offering useful shelter for a human.
  • * 1840 , James Holman, ''Travels in Madeira, Sierra Leone, Teneriffe, St. Jago, Cape Coast, Fernando ..., page 411
    • This berth of mine was commonly called a doghouse (a box about six feet long, four high, and two broad,) containing a mattress fitted about 18 inches from the deck.
  • * p.'' 1927 , ''United States Code Annotated
    • so as to render railroad liable for death of brakeman falling from tender, notwithstanding construction of doghouse on top of tender for brakeman's use.
  • * 1958 , in Rudder , Page 33
    • The yacht is well equipped and has accommodations for six people. A teak doghouse over the forward part of the cockpit affords [....]
  • * 2005 , Alan Cockrell, Drilling Ahead: The Quest for Oil in the Deep South, 1945-2005 , page 276
    • A rotary rig could have drilled that much in a day. Oscar had been here a month. He kept a careful log on the doghouse wall [....]
  • Mechanically, an equipment cover with an opening, with a shape resembling a doghouse.
  • (nautical) A difficult or demoralizing situation.
  • * 1981 , Charles Snelling, Nomenclature of Ships , Naval Sea Systems Command publication
    • During the slave trade, slaves were packed into every available niche aboard the slave ships, including the officers' cabins. The officers slept on deck in semi-cylindrical boxes, nicknamed "dog houses." The term "in the dog house" grew to describe being in a difficult situation due to the extreme discomfort of sleeping in these boxes.

    Derived terms

    * in the doghouse

    Synonyms

    * (chiefly British) kennel

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "doghouse")

    See also

    * barkitecture English words with consonant pseudo-digraphs

    kennel

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl), from a *canile , ultimately from (etyl) canis

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A house or shelter for a dog.
    • – We want to look at the dog kennels .
    – That's the pet department, second floor.
  • A facility at which dogs are reared or boarded.
    • The town dog-catcher operates the kennel for strays.
    She raises registered Dalmatians at her kennel .
  • (UK) The dogs kept at such a facility; a pack of hounds.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • * 1843 , '', book 3, ch. IX, ''Working Aristocracy
    • A world of mere Patent-Digesters will soon have nothing to digest: such world ends, and by Law of Nature must end, in ‘over-population;’ in howling universal famine, ‘impossibility,’ and suicidal madness, as of endless dog-kennels run rabid.
  • The hole of a fox or other animal.
    • Synonyms
    * (shelter for a dog) doghouse

    Verb

  • To house or board a dog (or less commonly another animal).
    • While we're away our friends will kennel our pet poodle.
  • To lie or lodge; to dwell, as a dog or a fox.
  • * L'Estrange
    • The dog kennelled in a hollow tree.

    Etymology 2

    See channel, canal.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A gutter at the edge of a street.
  • * 1899 , Guy Boothby, Pharos the Egyptian
    • A biting wind whistled through the streets, the pavements were dotted with umbrella-laden figures, the kennels ran like mill-sluices, while the roads were only a succession of lamp-lit puddles through which the wheeled traffic splashed continuously.
    (Bishop Hall)
  • (obsolete) A puddle.