doggery
Americannoun
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doggeries
plural
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doglike behavior or conduct, especially when surly.
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dogs collectively.
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rabble; mob.
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Older Slang. a place where liquor is sold; saloon.
noun
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surly behaviour
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dogs collectively
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a mob
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Etymology
Origin of doggery
Example Sentences
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“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
Ay—that I do—hee-hee, such doggery as there was in them ancient days, to be sure!
From The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
So much had this doggery become frequented by these gentlemen that it became jocularly known among them as the "club annex."
From Turns about Town by Robert Cortes Holliday
Kelly's original headquarters had, of course, been the doggery in and through which he had established himself as a political power.
From The Conflict by David Graham Phillips
Storri and Mr. Norris drove to a doggery near the East River, in the vicinity of James Slip.
From The President A novel by Alfred Henry Lewis
A hound gave tongue responsively among the heaped mews and doggeries beneath the ramparts.
From Red Axe by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
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
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
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
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
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