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dogie

UK/ˈdəʊɡi/US/ˈdoʊɡi/

dogie noun: a motherless calf in a range herd of cattle; a calf separated from its cow.

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

Synonyms of dogie

Forms of dogie

pluraldogies
alternative formdogey
alternative formdogy

Origin of dogie

Unknown. Possibly an abbreviation of dough-guts, the pot bellied appearance of a malnourished calf. Possibly the transliteration of the slang word dobie/dobe/doby, pejoratively meaning inferior. Since dogie and dobie in reference to an orphaned calf both appeared in print around the same time (1880-1888), it is possible that dogie is the original and dobie is the transliteration.

Words that rhyme with dogie

Questions about dogie

What does dogie mean?
Dogie means a motherless calf in a range herd of cattle; a calf separated from its cow.
What part of speech is dogie?
Dogie is a noun.
How do you pronounce dogie?
Dogie is pronounced /ˈdoʊɡi/ (US).
What is the plural of dogie?
The plural of dogie is dogies.

Words near dogie in the dictionary

  1. Doghramadjians
  2. dogi
  3. Dogic
  4. dogicide
  5. dogicides
  6. dogie
  7. dogielinotid
  8. dogielinotids
  9. dogies
  10. dogiron
  11. dogirons

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