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doggery|ˈdɒgərɪ|
[f. dog n.1 + -ery.]
†1. Foul or obscene language. Obs.—0
1611Cotgr., Cagnesque, Parler cagn., to speake doggerie.
2. Dog-like behaviour or practice; mean and contemptible action; mischievous doings.
1844W. M. Macmillan Lett. (1893) 103 Evasive doggeries of every kind. 1886T. Hardy Mayor Casterbr. xiii, ‘Such doggery as there was in them ancient days.’
3. a. A company of dogs, dogs collectively. b. Used by Carlyle to represent F. canaille.
1843Carlyle Past & Pr. iv. vii. ad fin., Doggeries never so diplomaed, bepuffed, gas-lighted, continue Doggeries, and must take the fate of such. 1862― Fredk. Gt. x. ii. (1865) III. 222 As ugly a Doggery (‘infâme Canaille’ he might well reckon them), as has, before or since, infested the path of a man. 1869Pall Mall G. 8 Oct. 11 With all the rabble doggery of the country after him.
4. U.S. (vulgar). A low drinking saloon.
1835D. P. Thompson Timothy Peacock 140 (Th.), A sort of Dutch doggery, or sailor's hotel, situated near the wharf. 1860Bartlett Dict. Amer., Doggery, a low drinking-house. West and South. [Now prevalent throughout the Union (Farmer).] 1863Holland Lett. Joneses i. 15 To fill Jonesville with doggeries and loafers. |