gun dog

Questions about gun dog

What does gun dog mean?

gun dog means "a dog trained to work with sportsmen when they hunt with guns".

What is another word for gun dog?

Close synonyms include sporting dog. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gun dog a common word?

gun dog is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.