Doggery
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Doggery is a noun meaning (countable, obsolete) A squalid tavern.
Meaning
(countable, obsolete) A squalid tavern.
More Meanings
- (uncountable, dated) Bestial or underhand behaviour.
- (uncountable) Dogs generally; the realm or sphere of dogs.
Example Sentences
Then it is all doggery and devilry and there is no God and no mercy.
"There's a lot of 'doggery' about this business," my informant added musingly.
[…] we'd distinguish an "entelechial" dog, the "compleat" dog toward which all doggery variously aspires […]
They fed on oily carcasses washed down with rum, brawled away the evenings, and collapsed each night in drunken stupor. After a week of this doggery, they made the rounds again, gathering freshly laid eggs, […]
Word Forms
- doggeries
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include scuggery, rathole, stinkhole, trugging-house, sloppery, shoddydom.
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