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Calf, to a cowboy
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dogie
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Word definitions for dogie in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. motherless calf in a range herd of cattle [syn: dogy , leppy ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"motherless calf in a herd," 1887, cowboy slang, of uncertain origin.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
dogy \do"gy\ (d[=o]"g[=e]), n. a motherless calf in a range herd of cattle. [Also spelled dogey and dogie .] Syn: leppy.
Usage examples of dogie.
The bawling of the dogie had ceased, but as Frank sat listening, he spotted something that made his heart leap.
They'll stick their iron on anything from a wobbly calf or dying dogie to a staggering-with-age mosshead, an' shout 'tally one' with the same joy.
By God, if a man helps hisself to a pore, sick dogie he's hunted down!
In about half a minute he had discovered the great difference between bullying poor, miserable, defenceless dogies and trying to bully a healthy, fully developed, and pugnacious steer.
They added Dogie, Texas, when somebody remembered he now owned Texas, and from there it was easy.
I would walk in the back streets and sing under my breath in English a song from childhood, "Oh, slow up, dogies, quit roaming around, you have wandered and trampled all over the ground.
From up here it looks like you're drubbing those little dogies pretty decisively.
You all know how locoed a bunch of dogies can get--we hunted for three days and for fifty miles in every direction, and neither hide, hair, nor hoof could we find.
Countess, you better set your back against that door--some of these dogies is thinking of taking a sneak on us--and we'd have t' go some, to cut 'em out uh that bunch out there and corral 'em again.