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housebroken

[hous-broh-kuhn] Origin

house·bro·ken

[hous-broh-kuhn]
adjective
(of a pet) trained to avoid excreting inside the house or in improper places.

Origin:
1895–1900; house + broken

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Housebroken is always a great word to know.
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an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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house·break

[hous-breyk]
verb (used with object), -broke, -bro·ken, -break·ing.
to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.

Origin:
1895–1900; house + break
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Word Origin & History

housebreak
1820, "to break into a house criminally;" sense of "to train a domestic animal to be clean in the house" is from 1900.
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