doggeries

Noun

doggery (countable and uncountable, plural doggeries)

1. (countable, obsolete) A squalid tavern.
   • There is an enemy of religion here, who […] keeps a public house, and also a "doggery." […] By his "doggery," he keeps around him a gang of ten or fifteen of the most abandoned persons, whom he employs as assistants in carrying out his nefarious schemes. When intoxicated, he is most abusive; […]1846, Home Missionary, volume 19, page 125
2. (dated, uncountable) Bestial or underhand behaviour.
   • "There's a lot of 'doggery' about this business," my informant added musingly.1908, The Nation, volume 4, page 379
3. (uncountable) Dogs generally; the realm or sphere of dogs.
   • […] we'd distinguish an "entelechial" dog, the "compleat" dog toward which all doggery variously aspires […]1967, Stanley Romaine Hopper, David LeRoy Miller, Interpretation: the Poetry of Meaning, page 84