单词 | dogie |
释义 | dogien. U.S. regional (western). Originally: an unacclimatized young heifer or steer on a range. Subsequently: a neglected or undernourished calf, esp. one without a mother. ΚΠ 1886 Unity & University (Chicago) 3 July 263/1 Of the dogies (the unacclimated Texas yearlings and two-year-olds) that were turned upon the range last fall, over 75 per cent are dead. 1887 Rep. Court of Appeals Texas 23 85 Defendant said that the paunches indicated where two ‘dogies’ (South Texas stock) had died. 1888 T. Roosevelt Frontier Types in Cent. Mag. Oct. 867/1 They were mostly Texan doughgies,—a name I have never seen written; it applies to young immigrant cattle. 1892 Outing Feb. 358 A queer, pot-bellied little dogy (a calf prematurely weaned by the death of its mother and developed into a runt). 1903 A. Adams Log of Cowboy vii. 86 Before you could say Jack Robinson our dogies..were running in half a dozen different directions. 1947 Trail Riders Bull. Feb. 20/1 A grin on his puss like a li'l dogey what's foun' a new ma. 1979 G. MacEwan Pat Burns, Cattle King (1981) xvii. 133 Those young cattle..were rather slow to adjust to range conditions. Dubbed ‘dogies’, by unsympathetic cattlemen, they wandered, bawled, fretted and wanted to go home to Manitoba. 1995 P. Roth Sabbath's Theater 402 ‘What is a dogie anyway?’ ‘A little stunted calf whose mother's left it.’ 2005 C. Tudge Secret Life Trees xiv. 391 We all like cowboys, driving their dogies across the plains of Texas and Wyoming. Compounds General attributive and appositive. ΚΠ 1911 H. Quick Yellowstone Nights v. 124 The Old Man..was a one-lunger when this dogie enterprise started. 1920 J. M. Hunter Trail Drivers of Texas I. 130 A dogie calf that had got into the herd. 1927 J. Lomax Cowboy Songs p. xxi Some of the best of the so-called ‘dogie songs’ seem to have been created for the purpose of preventing cattle stampedes [etc.]. 1945 J. J. Mathews Talking to Moon ii. vii. 101 They's many a ole cow dies durin' droppin' time... A dogy cafe [sic] like that ain't got a chance in the world..if they ain't..tuk care of. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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