housebroken
adj/haʊsbɹəʊkən/
Etymology From house + broken.
1
Of animals trained to avoid urinating or defecating in the house, except within a litterbox, toilet, or other receptacle.
- Hey. At least I'm housebroken.1998, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, The Big Lebowski, spoken by The Dude (Jeff Bridges):
- Week in and week out you come back like a housebroken Pomeranian loyal to the bitter end. Good boy.2012 September 1, 0:14 from the start, in Putin Learns Putin Behind Plot To Assassinate Putin, The Onion, archived from the original on 20 Jul 2016:
- Derived terms
- unhousebroken