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dogy

dogy 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 dogy

pluraldogies

Questions about dogy

What is dogy the alternative spelling of?
Dogy is the alternative spelling of dogie.

Words near dogy in the dictionary

  1. dogwise
  2. dogwood
  3. dogwood winter
  4. dogwood winters
  5. dogwoods
  6. dogy
  7. dogz
  8. doh
  9. doha
  10. Dohad
  11. dohai

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dogy (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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