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The Collaborative International Dictionary
dogie

dogey \do"gey\ (d[=o]"g[=e]), n. a motherless calf in a range herd of cattle. [Also spelled dogy and dogie.]

Syn: leppy.

dogie

dogie \do"gie\ (d[=o]"g[=e]), n. a motherless calf in a range herd of cattle. [Also spelled dogy and dogey.]

Syn: leppy.

dogie

dogy \do"gy\ (d[=o]"g[=e]), n. a motherless calf in a range herd of cattle. [Also spelled dogey and dogie.]

Syn: leppy.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
dogie

"motherless calf in a herd," 1887, cowboy slang, of uncertain origin.

Wiktionary
dogie

n. (context cowboy slang colloquial English) A motherless calf in a range herd of cattle; a calf separated from its cow.

WordNet
dogie

n. motherless calf in a range herd of cattle [syn: dogy, leppy]

Wikipedia
Dogie

Dogie may refer to:

  • A calf, especially one that is motherless or undersized
  • Dogie Butte, a geographic feature in rural South Dakota

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.