doggy dinner bowl look

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English

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Etymology

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Presumably an allusion to the expectant gaze of a dog waiting for its owner to put food in its bowl.

Noun

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doggy dinner bowl look (plural doggy dinner bowl looks)

  1. (informal, seduction community) A look of rapt attention, expectation, or excitement, seen as a sign of romantic interest or pleading.
    • 2004, Tony Click, The Layguide: How To Seduce Women More Beautiful Than You Ever Dreamed Possible, unnumbered page:
      She smiles, laughs, has a doggy-dinner-bowl look.
    • 2005, Neil Strauss, The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists, page 154:
      She began to give me the doggy dinner-bowl look, as the PUAs call it. It is the look that is the goal of any approach. Her eyes glazed over, her pupils dilated, and she just watched my lips move, entranced and attracted.
    • 2008, Zander Martin, The Players[1], page 258:
      CJ tries to use a Doggy Dinner Bowl look on me, saying, 'Pete, I can't let her see me like this, she'll think I'm some kind of pervert. You gotta meet her, say I'm sick, really sorry, all that shit.'
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:doggy dinner bowl look.

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