What is "doggery"

Usage examples of "doggery".

You know the kind of street Main Street always used to be in our section--half plank-road and turnpike, and the rest mud-hole, and a lot of stores and doggeries strung along with false fronts a story higher than the back, and here and there a decent building with the gable end to the public.

The immemorial mile of cheap foul doggeries remained, but business was dull with them.

The judge re­moved his hat and bowed to a pair of ladies detoured into the street to bypass the doggery and he pirouetted hugely on his mincing feet and poured pulque from his cup into the old man's eartrumpet.

So me and the duke went up to the village, and hunted around there for the king, and by and by we found him in the back room of a little low doggery, very tight, and a lot of loafers bullyragging him for sport, and he a-cussing and a-threatening with all his might, and so tight he couldn't walk, and couldn't do nothing to them.

I says, "when I see the king in that doggery yesterday I says to myself, we can't get him home for hours, till he's soberer.

That old fool had made a trade and got forty dollars, and when we found him in the doggery the loafers had matched half-dollars with him and got every cent but what he'd spent for whisky.

Snatches of drunken song and rude jest came up from an unseen doggery, and vile odors came with them.