prairie dog



prairie dog

in. [for people in office cubicles] to pop up to see what’s going on in the rest of the office. Everybody was prairie dogging to see what was going on.
See also: dog

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Olufunmilola-Western African, Yoruba
ErmentrudER-men-trootGerman (Archaic)
Redding[rediŋ]
Toma (2)TO-mah (Croatian, Serbian)Romanian, Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Georgian
Nastasya-Russian
WaldekVAHL-dekPolish