dogie
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of dogie
An Americanism first recorded in 1885–90; origin obscure; alleged to be doughg(uts) + -ie
Example Sentences
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Then frisky fate dealt Tex Langford as rude a bulldogging as any Panhandle dogie ever got.
From Time Magazine Archive
To be more exact, a dogie is a calf whose mama has died and whose papa has run off with another cow.
From Time Magazine Archive
If a man helps hisself to a pore, sick dogie he's hunted down!
From The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories by Mathiews, Franklin K.
There ain't no use lookin' for that dogie.
From The Two-Gun Man by Seltzer, Charles Alden
I reckon them men wouldn't go out of their way to drive a poor little dogie in off the range.
From The Two-Gun Man by Seltzer, Charles Alden
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