doge
/dəʊdʒ//doʊd͡ʒ/
doge noun: the chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa. Also the deliberate misspelling of doggy.
Noun (1)
- The chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa.
- In the thirteenth century, a new method of appointing the doge, by the famous ballot of Venice, a complicated mixture of choice and chance, was adopted.1797, John Adams, A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States, page 62
- This reply was one of the first important pronouncements to be made by Antonio Grimani, who on 6 July had been elected seventy-fourth Doge of Venice in succession to Leonardo Loredan.1982, John Julius Norwich, chapter 34, in A History of Venice, page 346
Noun (2)
doge (plural doges)
- Specifically, a Shiba Inu, as in the doge meme.
- Bobsled wasn't the only Dogecoin-backed sporting success. Fans of Nascar will recognise the car driven by Josh Wise, emblazoned, as it is, with the adorable little doge on its bonnet (pictured above).2015 July 23, Dave Lee, “Six times Reddit wasn't completely awful”, in BBC
Noun (3) capitalized: Doge
Doge (plural Doges)
Noun (4) capitalized: Doge
Doge (plural Doges)
- Clipping of Dogecoin (“a unit of the cryptocurrency”).
Proper noun (1) capitalized: Doge
Doge
- Alternative letter-case form of DOGE.
- Two senior USAid security officials were suspended on Sunday for blocking Doge officials from a restricted area, a day after the agency’s website went offline, and Musk posted to X that USAid was “beyond repair” and needed to be shut down.2025 February 3, Richard Luscombe, “Marco Rubio appoints himself head of USAid as workers locked out of office”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 04 Apr 2025
Proper noun (2) capitalized: DOGE
DOGE
- Acronym of Department of Government Efficiency.
- It is not known how big a budget DOGE will have, how many people it will itself employ, or how much of the American taxpayers’ dollars it will require.2024 November 14, Rhian Lubin, “What is DOGE? Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency led by Musk and Ramaswamy”, in The Independent
- The DOGE personnel wanted to gain access to USAID security systems and personnel files, three sources said.2025 February 2, Jennifer Hansler and Alex Marquardt, “Senior USAID security officials put on leave after attempting to refuse Musk’s DOGE access to agency systems”, in CNN
Verb capitalized: DOGE
DOGE (third-person singular simple present DOGEs, present participle DOGEing, simple past and past participle DOGEd or DOGE'd)
- To fire, scale back or remove in an attempt to improve efficiency.
- There was a huge exodus over at the National Archives for snickety librarians were getting DOGEd silly.2025 February 20, “CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip”, in CNN, spoken by Jesse Watters
- “I finally found one person I knew who got DOGE’d, and it hit me in the heart,” said Watters, who urged his Fox colleagues to “be a little bit less callous.”2025 March 7, Jonathan Lemire, quoting Jesse Watters, “Is DOGE Losing Steam?”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2025
Also used as
doge is also the deliberate misspelling of doggy.
doge is also the alternative letter-case form of DOGE.
doge meaning in Hindi, Arabic and Persian
doge in Hindi
- chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa
- डोगे ḍoge
doge in Arabic
- chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa
- دُوق dūq, دوج dōj
doge in Persian
- chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa
- دوجه
Forms of doge
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | doges |
| plural | dogi |
| alternative form | Doge |
| plural | Doges |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | doges |
| present participle | dogeing |
| past participle | doged |
| past | doged |
| third-person singular present | DOGEs |
| present participle | DOGEing |
| past participle | DOGEd |
| past | DOGEd |
| past participle | DOGE'd |
| past | DOGE'd |
Origin of doge
Partly from Middle French doge and partly from its etymon, Italian doge, from Venetan doxe, from Latin ducem, accusative of dux (“leader; commander; ruler”). Doublet of duc, duce, duke, and dux.
From dog, probably as a sensational spelling of doggy like monke. First attested in the 2005 episode "Biz Cas Fri 1" from Homestar Runner.
See DOGE.
Words formed from doge
Phrases with doge
Questions about doge
- What does doge mean?
- Doge means the chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa.
- What is doge in Hindi?
- Doge in Hindi is डोगे (ḍoge). See Doge meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is doge?
- Doge can be a noun, a proper noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce doge?
- Doge is pronounced /dəʊdʒ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of doge?
- The plural of doge is doges.
Words near doge in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: doge (page history and authors); Doge (page history and authors); DOGE (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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