HOUSEBROKEN

housebroken, house-trained

(adjective) (of pets) trained to urinate and defecate outside or in a special place; ā€œhousebroken petsā€; ā€œā€˜house-trainedā€™ is chiefly Britishā€

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

housebroken (not comparable)

Of animals: trained to avoid urinating or defecating in the house, except within a litterbox, toilet, or other receptacle.

Synonym: house-trained

Source: Wiktionary



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Coffee Trivia

The expression ā€œcoffee breakā€ was first attested in 1952 in glossy magazine advertisements by the Pan-American Coffee Bureau.

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