What Does This Mean?
Literally "dog food"; in Chinese internet use, the sight of couples openly showing affection, which leaves single people feeling left out. This entry covers the bare noun, as in "吃狗粮" (to be fed dog food, i.e. to have to watch couples' displays of affection).
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"Scrolling through her feed on Valentine's Day, he sighed, "今天又吃了一天狗粮。""
LORE & ORIGIN
狗粮 also has the ordinary meaning of dog food; the slang sense is a figurative extension. Chinese Wiktionary lists the slang meaning as a newer word for a couple's public display of affection and links it to 单身狗 and 单身汪 ("single dog"), the jokey self-label of single people. The bare noun is the thing that singles are "fed"; the related entry 撒狗粮 covers the active verb phrase for the couple who display affection. No dated first use is documented.
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