damp dog

It does not refer to dog meat.

It is an idiom.

damp dog describes an odor, not necessarily a dog or dogs

ya have to first own a dog and then you wouldnt need to ask.

In Britain, wine buffs talk about flavours using terms like "wet dog", "woody", "forward fruit" etc. There was a wine programme on TV with a panel of experts who blind tasted wines and one was a woman called Jilly Goolden and she would pick up a glass, swill the wine around her mouth and exclaim "I'm getting... wet dog!" or "...chewed pencils!" or "... liquorice!" or "...strawberry jam!". Jam is the name Brits use for the thing Americans call "jelly". A wet dog wine would be a very heavy and mature red wine, and many people would use the term about wine that is "corked" (tainted by a mouldy cork).

I have a lovely mohair jacket from Finland that just needs to sense snow to get that stink of damp dog.

my wife had to design and make a "felted vest" made out of a hairy Borzoi's down coqt. You could not get that smell out of the gqrment but the lqdy loved it cause it smelled of her "doggie"

People, you cant stand em and you cant kill em.

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