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What on earth dose this mean when refering to tired/aching feet ?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Slang but certainly not rhyming - it's American:
"You can credit America's youth and their love of counter-culture slang for the connection between the two seemingly unrelated words � "dogs" and "feet." According to Tom Dalzell, author of Flappers 2 Rappers: American Youth Slang (Merriam Webster, October 1996), it was during the Jazz Age of the 1920's that "dogs" was used as a noun to indicate feet. For example, "my dogs are barking" in 1920 speak translates to "my feet are hurting" in modern speak."
"You can credit America's youth and their love of counter-culture slang for the connection between the two seemingly unrelated words � "dogs" and "feet." According to Tom Dalzell, author of Flappers 2 Rappers: American Youth Slang (Merriam Webster, October 1996), it was during the Jazz Age of the 1920's that "dogs" was used as a noun to indicate feet. For example, "my dogs are barking" in 1920 speak translates to "my feet are hurting" in modern speak."
on further investigation (in the Cassell dictionary of slang)... it says dogs was slang for shoes in the 1910s and rhyming slang for feet in the 1920s; barking dogs was US slang for sore feet in the 1920s. Not quite sure where this leaves us etymologically or geographically, but the meaning is clear enough.