doggery

[ daw-guh-ree, dog-uh- ]

noun

, plural dog·ger·ies.

1. doglike behavior or conduct, especially when surly.
2. dogs collectively.
3. rabble; mob.
4. Older Slang. a place where liquor is sold; saloon.

doggery

/ ˈdɒɡərɪ /

noun

1. surly behaviour
2. dogs collectively
3. a mob

Word History and Origins

Origin of doggery¹

First recorded in 1605–15; dog + -ery

Example Sentences

So much had this doggery become frequented by these gentlemen that it became jocularly known among them as the "club annex."

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Berry subsequently kept a doggery, a whiskey saloon, as I do now, or did.

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Snatches of drunken song and rude jest came up from an unseen doggery, and vile odors came with them.

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Desfontaines is dead, safe down in Sodom; but wants not for a successor, for a whole Doggery of such.

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He is prone in life's very gutter; bloated, reeking and polluted with the doggery's slops and filth.

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