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dogey

dogey is the alternative spelling of dogie.

Meaning of dogie

Noun

dogie (plural dogies)

  1. (colloquial) A motherless calf in a range herd of cattle; a calf separated from its cow.
    • When she was a child, her father often gave her orphaned calves to look after, and every so often, she would fold the grown ones in with the steers when they were shipped off to Fort Worth. She made enough money off her dogies to make investments in stocks […]2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 49
    Synonyms:
    bum calf, bummer, leppy

Forms of dogey

pluraldogeys

Questions about dogey

What is dogey the alternative spelling of?
Dogey is the alternative spelling of dogie.

Words near dogey in the dictionary

  1. dogeships
  2. dogess
  3. dogesses
  4. dogette
  5. dogettes
  6. dogey
  7. dogeys
  8. dogeza
  9. dogface
  10. dogfaces
  11. dogfall

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dogey (page history and authors); dogie (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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