doggery
noun
doglike behavior or conduct, especially when surly.
doggeries
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pluralof doggery.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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These floaters registered "from dives, and doggeries, from coal bins and water closets; no space was too small to harbor a man."
From The Boss and the Machine; a chronicle of the politicians and party organization by Samuel Peter Orth
That is why every sailor in the world, outside the doggeries of Hamburg, felt his calling spat upon and his personal pride injured by the sinking of the Lusitania—by a sailor.
From Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers by Louis Raemaekers
Hautcharmoi, quitting the Frontier Towns, has joined, raising him to 15,000; and Nassau is giving excellent account of the multitudinous Pandour doggeries there; and will retake Kosel, and have Upper Silesia swept before very long.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 15 by Thomas Carlyle
Be busy, ye Cossack doggeries; return with news, not with mere grime and marks of blood on your mouths!
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 18 by Thomas Carlyle
The Leaders of Industry, virtually the Captains of the world: doggeries and Chivalries.
From Past and Present by Thomas Carlyle
