housebroken
Definition
- Adjective:
- (Of a domestic pet) Trained to excrete (urinate and defecate) outdoors or in a designated place, such as a litter box. This term specifically describes an animal that has learned not to relieve itself indiscriminately inside a human dwelling.
Usage
- The term is primarily used as an adjective to describe a pet's state of training.
- It is most commonly applied to dogs and cats.
- The British English equivalent is "house-trained."
Examples
- Adjective:
- We adopted a puppy, but it isn't housebroken yet, so we have to take it outside frequently.
- All the cats at the shelter are housebroken and use their litter boxes perfectly.
- It took several weeks of consistent training to get the new dog housebroken.
Advanced Usage
- The term can sometimes be used humorously or metaphorically to describe a person who is well-behaved or has learned to conform to social rules, though this is informal.
- After a few strict roommates, he's finally housebroken and remembers to do the dishes.
Variants and Related Words
- House-train (verb): The action of training a pet to be housebroken.
- We need to house-train the new puppy as soon as possible.
- House-trained (adjective): The chiefly British synonym for "housebroken."
- Is your cat house-trained?
Synonyms
- House-trained (chiefly British)
- Toilet-trained (can be used, but is more general and often applied to human children)
Antonyms
- Untrained
- Unhousebroken
Adjective
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(of pets) trained to urinate and defecate outside or in a special place
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housebroken pets
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`house-trained' is chiefly British
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