doggery

American  

[daw-guh-ree, dog-uh-] / ˈdɔ gə ri, ˈdɒg ə- /

noun

plural

doggeries

1. doglike behavior or conduct, especially when surly.

2. dogs collectively.

3. rabble; mob.

4. Older Slang. a place where liquor is sold; saloon.

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doggery British  

/ ˈdɒɡərɪ /

noun

1. surly behaviour

2. dogs collectively

3. a mob

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Etymology

Origin of doggery

First recorded in 1605–15; dog + -ery

Example Sentences

“It was the most dangerous, being the finest. The low doggery will take the low and keep them low, but these so-called respectable ones will take the respectable, make them low, then kick them out.”

From Slate • Sep. 7, 2021

I never saw anything in doggery finer than the deportment of Poodles, when another little girl opens her mouth to show a peculiar enlargement of the tongue. 

From The Uncommercial Traveller by Dickens, Charles

The village tavern, servilely bearing the king's arms thinly painted over the palmetto tree of South Carolina on its swinging sign-board, was a miserable doggery, full to overflowing with a riffraff of carousing soldiery.

From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Lynde, Francis

On the opposite side of the river the dam-head and the camp street were deserted, but there were lights in the commissary, in the office shack, and in Blue Pete Simms's canteen doggery.

From The Real Man by Lynde, Francis

But mark me, now, the day he runs Hans Wyker out of that doggery business it will be good-by to John Jacobs.

From Winning the Wilderness by Marchand, J. N.