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doggie

doggie is the alternative spelling of doggy.

Meaning of doggy

Noun

doggy (countable and uncountable, plural doggies)

  1. (childish, countable, endearing) A dog, especially a small one.
    • That's such a cute little doggy, Keira!
  2. (UK, countable, informal) A junior temporarily assigned to do minor duties for a senior; a gofer.
    • The Torpedo Officer and I were on the lower bridge and we each had a doggy, a young midshipman […]2008, Iain Ballantyne, HMS Rodney: The Famous Ships of the Royal Navy Series
  3. (historical) Synonym of corporal.
    • […] the "doggy" sometimes took a safety-lamp, and sometimes not, when he entered the mine in the morning; whether he did on the morning of the catastrophe was not apparent.1847, The Annual Register, page 175
    Synonyms:
    corporal

See all 7 meanings of doggy

Forms of doggie

pluraldoggies

Origin of doggie

From dog + -ie.

Words formed from doggie

Phrases with doggie

Words that rhyme with doggie

2 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about doggie

What is doggie the alternative spelling of?
Doggie is the alternative spelling of doggy.

Words near doggie in the dictionary

  1. Doggett
  2. Doggettfic
  3. Doggetts
  4. doggicide
  5. doggicides
  6. doggie
  7. doggie bag
  8. doggie bags
  9. doggie biscuit
  10. doggie biscuits
  11. doggie door

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Adapted from Wiktionary: doggie (page history and authors); doggy (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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