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
KasperKAHS-per (Polish, Swedish), KAHS-pər (Dutch)Polish, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Pace[peis]
BeaBEEEnglish
NollaigNAWL-əgIrish
Cierrasee-ER-əEnglish (Modern)
Yadira-Spanish (Latin American), American (Hispanic)