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Informal terms for dogs
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doggy
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Suggesting of, or in the manner of a dog. n. 1 (context childish or endearing English) A dog, especially a small one. 2 doggy style 3 (context armed services UK informal English) A junior temporarily assigned to do minor duties for a senior, a gofer.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also doggie , 1825, from dog (n.) + -y (3). Doggy-bag attested from 1965. As an adj. doggy is attested from late 14c., from -y (2). The word has been used in various formations since at least late 19c. to describe the sex act when one partner is on all ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. informal terms for dogs [syn: pooch , doggie , barker , bow-wow ]
Usage examples of doggy.
He could not for the life of him help assuming his air of doggy raffishness, squaring his padded shoulders a little, twisting up his mouth in the well-known slightly-bored, slightly-cynical smile.
Spacers, fleet doggies, dock wallopers, grifters, thugs, and hustlers made an everchanging parade of new faces.
Range Rovers from Britain, any drugs you want, they hand-make copies of any kind of gun in the world, gold-plated Purdey shotguns, Kalashnikovs, M16s, pirated Snoop, Doggy Dog CDs, all this next to the most beautiful, timeless, local handicrafts, rugs, lamps.
He has a jaunty bandanna tied around his neck and appears to be wearing a big old doggy grin.
Her body was warm under the rough curly hair and as usual she smelt doggier than I liked.
He can hear other neighbor doggies, too, a whole pack of them stretching off into the distance, in all directions.
The stranger doesn't hear him, but all the other doggies in the pack do.
He will help spread the bark along to other nice doggies so that the entire pack can all be prepared to fight the stranger.
But all the other nice doggies in the pack, far away, hear him, and when they do, they see these two scared, nice people, smell them, and hear them.
He is telling all the other doggies about how the bad strangers came and hurt him.
When he listens to this barking, Fido knows that a whole pack of nice doggies is very excited about something.
He is so upset that his barking has spread to all the other doggies in the pack.
All the nice doggies who live in this faraway place are being warned to look out for the very bad strangers and the girl who loves Fido, because they are going to that place.
He can hear other neighbor doggies, too, a whole pack of them stretching off into the distance, in all directions.
The stranger doesn't hear him, but all the other doggies in the pack do.