doggo
/ˈdɒɡəʊ
/adverb (in phrase lie doggo) informal
Remain motionless and quiet to escape detection: a dozen officers had been lying doggo for hours...
- Vets come home and the wars come with them, lying doggo sometimes for years, then popping up at the most inconvenient of times.
- I think he was lying doggo until the old one popped his clogs.
- Despite their numbers and their refusal to lie doggo in the face of the security cordon, there was no repetition of the riots that brought Seattle to a standstill just over a year ago.
Origin
Late 19th century: of obscure origin; apparently from dog + -o.
Rhymes
- North Circular
- Northcliffe, 1st Viscount
- North Country
- North Dakota
- North Dakotan
- Northdown
- north-east
- Northeast
- northeaster
- north-easterly
- north-eastern
- northeasterner
- north-easternmost
- Northeast Kingdom
- North-East Passage
- north-eastward
- north-eastwardly
- north-eastwards
- north end
- North Equatorial Current
- norther
- northering
- northerliness
- northerly
- northermost