1692 ‘J. Curate’ Sc. Presbyterian Eloquence 106 A the Dogs in the Town Dare not ding me down Yea but there is a doggie in Heaven that has dung them all down.

1724 A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (new ed.) I. 26 My Doggie and my little Kit,..my Plaidy, Broach, and crooked Stick, May now ly useless by.

1789 J. O'Keeffe Highland Reel i. i. 6 The lark and the sparrow lye snug in their nest, Pussy dozes, and so does my doggy.

1809 W. Wordsworth Let. 21 Aug. (1969) II. 77 My daughter..had conceived a great attachment to them and their doggy.

1853 E. C. Gaskell Cranford vii. 132 Come down stairs with me, poor ittie doggie, and it shall have its tea.

1888 J. Ruskin Præterita III. ii. 55 The poor little..wistfully gazing doggie was tenderly put in a pretty basket.

1937 A. Christie Dumb Witness xv. 166 Nothing annoys me more than to hear a sporting terrier called a dear little doggie.

1952 B. Merrill (song lyrics) How much is that doggie in the window, The one with the waggly tail.

1997 Independent 16 Aug. i. 14/3 There is an oh-so-cute, friendly faced plastic doggie or horsie which purports to teach you how to care for animals.

1845 B. Disraeli Sybil II. iii. i. 11 (note) A Butty in the mining districts is a middleman; a Doggy is his manager.

1860 W. White All round Wrekin 253 The butty..employs a subordinate whose title is doggy.

1873 Daily News 27 Feb. 3/6 The pit was examined in the usual way by the doggy.

c1937 W. Bonsall in S. Williamson Gresford (1999) xi. 122 He 's not responsible. We have ‘doggies’ and haulage hands for that.

1999 J. Winter Secure from Rash Assault viii. 146 The contractor or ‘butty’..would hire and pay laborers..and send an overseer (called a ‘doggie’) to supervise their work.

1909 J. R. Ware Passing Eng. Victorian Era 113/2 Doggie,..officer's servant, especially cavalry.

1916 ‘Taffrail’ Carry On! 18 The captain's ‘doggie’—midshipman A.D.C.—is relating certain shoregoing experiences.

1921 Blackwood's Mag. July 50/2 Is the Admiral going to have a doggie?

1952 A. Grimble Pattern of Islands ii. 53 My function would be to act as doggie—that is, clerical assistant and odd-job man—to..the District Officer.

1964 Times 19 Dec. 8/6 When we were detailed for our duties, such as Captain's ‘doggie’, Commander's ‘doggie’, I was appointed ‘goat's mate’.

1987 W. Golding Close Quarters 227 The sailing master..had the watch..with young Mr Taylor as his doggie.

1952 Amer. Restaurant Sept. 164/2 (advt.) It's a pleasure to hand this beautiful Doggie Pak to your patrons To Take Home Bones For Their Dog... Printed in three colors... It's class.]

1957 Huronite & Daily Plainsman (Huron, S. Dakota) 7 July 19/4 More and more restaurant meals are going to the dogs, if stepped-up demand for the ‘Doggy Bag’ is any indication.

1967 L. J. Braun Cat who ate Danish Mod. v. 53 ‘Doggie hungry. You take doggie bag,’ said the caterer, and he pushed a foil-wrapped package into Qwilleran's hand.

1984 Listener 5 Apr. 23/1 About a pound of the remains came home in a doggy bag.

2007 Olive May 11/1 The food tasted as magnificent as it looks, so much so that Bryn Williams' salt marsh lamb went home with our eminent photographer in a doggy bag.

1971 Press-Telegram (Long Beach, Calif.) 19 July b3/5 The city ordinance prohibiting doggie-do on the pristine properties of the lovely beach city.

1977 Sounds 9 July 15/2 He..adopts a facial expression when discussing punks of a man reluctantly handling doggy's do.

1985 Time Out 6 June 16/1 ‘Eat crap!’ barked the [film] director. And suddenly Divi was up to his dentures in doggy doo.

2003 W. Ferguson Hokkaido Highway Blues (abridged ed.) 27 And right smack beside them are fake doggy-do and large novelty buttocks.

1959 Observer 15 Mar. 30/3 (advt.) Georgian house, W.2. by Ken Gns,..doggie door to gdn.

1972 Progress-Bull. (Pomona, Calif.) 15 Mar. d5/1 I have two poodles... Sherry, the fat one, got so heavy she would sit by her doggy door and just cry because she couldn't fit through it.

2000 AAP Newsfeed (Nexis) 24 Aug. A perfect 10 by Hawaiian Andy Irons..at surfing's world championship tour (WCT) event... ‘I didn't think I was going to make it,’ Irons explained. ‘But I just sneaked out the doggy door.’

2004 Iola (Kansas) Reg. 4 Sept. 6/1 Dogs can enter and leave the house whenever they want through a swinging doggy door in a room that was formerly a garage.

2013 Tweed (New S. Wales) Daily News (Nexis) 21 Dec. 28 He took off late as the lip reached its zenith,..disappearing then exiting from the doggy door to pump both fists, knowing he had caught the wave of consequence to advance to the quarter final.

1979 W. Styron Sophie's Choice i. 14 Let me take you doggie fashion.

2002 Daily Star (Nexis) 28 Sept. 40 She demands that we do it doggy fashion so that she doesn't have to look at me.

1921 Star & Sentinel (Gettysburg, Pa.) 25 June 5/2 Strokes range from the Australian Crawl to the familiar ‘doggie’ paddle.

2002 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) 13 Jan. (Seven Days section) 11/5 The poet, a swimmer since childhood, is reduced to salty panic and a spluttering doggy-paddle.

1958 T. Sturgeon Touch of Strange in Fantasy & Sci. Fiction Jan. 121/1 She..doggy-paddled frantically to the rock on which he sat, and got a hand on it.

2007 Independent (Nexis) 5 May She had already got the five, 10 and 25-metre certificates, but on those occasions was able to doggy-paddle.

1975 N. Friday Forbidden Flowers i. 70 While in this doggy position I bend my head so as to watch him fuck me.

2008 Times (Nexis) 19 July 22 You don't specifically tell us whether it is sex in the doggy position that you dislike or whether it is sex in front of mirrors.

1971 A. Karlen Sexuality & Homosexuality 415 Coitus a tergo—from behind, ‘doggy style’.

1972 Pussycat 33 lix. 5/2 My juices were squirting out all over him, so he flipped me over and we did it doggie-style.

2003 Ice Oct. 151/1 (advt.) I love being fucked doggy style.

a1450 Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (New Coll. Oxf.) (1850) 1 Chron. Prol. 315 My bacbiters..gnawen me with a doggi tooth [a1382 E.V. dogge tothe; L. canino dente].

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 5 Pack hence doggye rakhels.

1852 S. S. Cox Buckeye Abroad xvi. 218 The romance of Constantinople dies as soon as you begin to thread its dirty, splashy, bad paved, narrow, doggy, donkeyfied, carriageless, up-and-down streets.

1869 Echo 3 June Beasts without one doggy feeling.

1886 J. K. Jerome Idle Thoughts (1889) 92 The animal, whose frank, doggy nature has been warped.

1919 N.Y. Times 17 June 18 The sorry pooch,..impersonated by Phil Dwyer, than whom no dog was ever doggier.

1934 M. McLuhan Let. 3 Nov. (1987) 34 I would like to have Rags to lie by my fire. What a fine old doggy odour he has.

1991 Dogs Monthly Feb. 27/1 The excellent numbers who turn up to hear her talk on all matters doggy.

2001 Australian 26 Oct. (Brisbane ed.) 21/4 In the US, Elle magazine hired Sweetie, a pampered pooch, to chronicle the doggy dos and doggy don'ts of New York's glitterati.

1859 J. Payn Foster Brothers xvi. 277 Others..associate with boating men..with even doggy men.

1882 M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal III. vi. 102 Country people, with loud voices, horsey, and doggy, and horticultural.

1902 C. H. Lane (title) Dog shows and doggy people.

1955 B. Pym Less than Angels ii. 31 There's something comic and pathetic about doggy Englishwomen.

1999 Dogs in Canada July 192/2 ‘With three doggy people in the Gratton home, how has the parcelling of responsibilities worked?’..‘No one is exempt from feeding and poop-scoop duty!’

1880 Littell's Living Age 30 June 809/2 Sound building principles, which were conveyed to his clerks in the doggiest of Latin.

1898 Daily News 3 Jan. 6/3 He spoke Latin! patristic Latin of the doggyest order.

1927 Times 10 Mar. 10/3 This is the doggiest Latin I have ever had to read.

1934 P. J. Smith For Love Bks. iv. 180 The very doggy Latin characteristic of the Pfefferkorn Tracts.

2001 J. Howe tr. F. Waquet Latin iii. ix. 233 A burlesque degree ceremony conducted in the doggiest of Latin.

1885 Puck (N.Y.) 29 July 343/1 ‘Oh, that's just too doggy for anything,’ approvingly remarked a radiant maiden.

1889 E. Dowson Let. 26 July (1967) 95 I found it difficult to choose between the half-dozen..charming photos of Mignon... The ‘doggy’ ones liked me least.

1905 A. Bennett Tales of Five Towns i. 109 He had seldom felt less doggy... It seemed to him that doggishness was not the glorious thing he had thought.

1924 Hamilton (Ohio) Evening Jrnl. 9 Aug. Where'd you get the bankroll to go buyin' blondes that magnificial bookay an' that doggy bag o' digestion-destroyers?

1932 A. J. Worrall Eng. Idioms 6 I like your tie, it is very doggy.