dog robber
(obsolete, derogatory) A contemptible person, especially one who steals scraps of food.
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#1·Apr 27, 2026US
(obsolete, derogatory) A contemptible person, especially one who steals scraps of food.
Get out of my daylight, you dog-robber, or I'll walk the little horse around your neck like a three-ringed circus.
Origin: There are many conjectures about the origin of this term, ranging from the peacetime occupation of the title character in The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek, to the use of the term dog for enlisted men, hence someone who took the best of everything away from the dogs to give to the officers. The most likely conjecture is that it comes from a 19th-century term for a contemptible person who stole scraps of leftover food that would otherwise be fed to dogs. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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#2·Apr 27, 2026US
(obsolete) A menial; a low-level servant.
“Waal—now! I tell you, boy, I knowed you—I knowed you the minute you called down that dog-robber of a barkeep"
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#3·Apr 27, 2026US
(military, slang) An officer's orderly or servant; a factotum; Someone whose job is to run errands for an officer.
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