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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Origin of doggery
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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
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 Francis Lynde
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 Charles Dickens
He retained ownership of the doggery, but took his name down and put up that of his barkeeper.
From The Conflict by David Graham Phillips
There shan’t no joint nor doggery never open a door on Big Wolf no more.
From Winning the Wilderness by J. N. Marchand
A hound gave tongue responsively among the heaped mews and doggeries beneath the ramparts.
From Red Axe by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
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
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
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
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
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