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doggery
[ daw-guh-ree, dog-uh- ]
noun
- doglike behavior or conduct, especially when surly.
- dogs collectively.
- rabble; mob.
- Older Slang. a place where liquor is sold; saloon.
doggery
/ ˈdɒɡərɪ /
noun
- surly behaviour
- dogs collectively
- a mob
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Example Sentences
So much had this doggery become frequented by these gentlemen that it became jocularly known among them as the "club annex."
Berry subsequently kept a doggery, a whiskey saloon, as I do now, or did.
Snatches of drunken song and rude jest came up from an unseen doggery, and vile odors came with them.
Desfontaines is dead, safe down in Sodom; but wants not for a successor, for a whole Doggery of such.
He is prone in life's very gutter; bloated, reeking and polluted with the doggery's slops and filth.
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