doggery

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

/ ˈdɔ gə ri, ˈdɒg ə- /

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noun, plural dog·ger·ies.

doglike behavior or conduct, especially when surly.

dogs collectively.

rabble; mob.

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

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Origin of doggery

First recorded in 1605–15; dog + -ery

Words nearby doggery

dogged, doggedly, dogger, Dogger Bank, doggerel, doggery, Doggett's Coat and Badge race, dogging, doggish, doggo, doggone

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How to use doggery in a sentence

So much had this doggery become frequented by these gentlemen that it became jocularly known among them as the "club annex."
Turns about Town|Robert Cortes Holliday
Berry subsequently kept a doggery, a whiskey saloon, as I do now, or did.
The Life Of Abraham Lincoln|Ward H. Lamon
Snatches of drunken song and rude jest came up from an unseen doggery, and vile odors came with them.
Blindfolded|Earle Ashley Walcott
Desfontaines is dead, safe down in Sodom; but wants not for a successor, for a whole Doggery of such.
History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XVI. (of XXI.)|Thomas Carlyle

He is prone in life's very gutter; bloated, reeking and polluted with the doggery's slops and filth.
Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners|B.G. Jefferis

British Dictionary definitions for doggery

doggery

/ (ˈdɒɡərɪ) /

noun plural -geries

surly behaviour

dogs collectively

a mob

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