单词 | doggery |
释义 | doggeryn. 1. Obscene or abusive language. rare (archaic and literary in later use). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > malediction > [noun] > abusive language teleeOE conteckc1380 contumelyc1386 flitec1400 abuse1559 doggery?1577 vinegar-railing1609 Billingsgate1676 slangwhang1834 tongue-plague1853 ?1577 Misogonus iv. i, in R. W. Bond Early Plays from Ital. (1911) 101 No, maye; but tis to say Ebrickes for greke, its playne doggerye. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Cagnesque, Parler cagn., to speake doggerie. 1641 in H. E. Rollins Cavalier & Puritan (1923) 16 We appoynt Iohn Taylor..to put in print rime doggery from the river of Styx against the truest Protestants. a1945 E. R. Eddison Mezentian Gate (1958) xxix. 138 These maidens..he used very roughly, speaking doggery at them: calling them a pair of fleering slavish parasites. 2. U.S. slang. A disreputable drinking establishment. ΚΠ 1821 A. Royall Let. 10 July in Lett. from Alabama (1969) xlv. 228 There are two large and well kept Taverns in Florence, and several Doggeries. A Doggery is a place where spirituous liquors are sold; and where men get drunk. 1835 D. P. Thompson Adventures Timothy Peacock xiii. 140 A sort of Dutch doggery, or sailor's hotel, situated near the wharf. 1860 Marysville (Ohio) Tribune 25 Jan. 2/2 It is folly..to suppose that all persons will abstain from the use of liquor as long as it is permitted to be manufactured and thrust out into every doggery in the land. 1863 J. G. Holland Lett. to Joneses i. 15 To fill Jonesville with doggeries and loafers. 1912 A. H. Lewis Apaches N.Y. i. 13 Tricker stopped for a moment in a little doggery from which came the tump-tump of a piano and the scuffle of a dance. 1941 W. J. Cash Mind of South i. i. 16 There was a county seat now, a cluster of frame houses, stores, and ‘doggeries’ about a red brick courthouse. 2002 J. Eugenides Middlesex ii. 112 He referred to drinking establishments as ‘boozeries’, ‘doggeries’, ‘rumholes’, and ‘schooners’. 3. Originally and chiefly U.S. A place where dogs are kept or bred; a kennel. Cf. cattery n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping dogs or cats > [noun] > keeping or affinity with dogs > kennels kennelling1716 doggery1827 boarding-kennel1969 1827 Wilmingtonian & Delaware Advertiser 19 Apr. 1/3 The following description of a doggery is an extract from the Invisible Spy. A maid is sitting on a chair,..setting in order the hair of a spaniel. 1871 Daily News 27 Apr. 5/5 A vaulted cellar underground, which he peopled with the remains of the doggery, reduced to a magnificent black poodle,..a toy-terrier, a little bull-terrier bitch. 1929 Los Angeles Times 28 Mar. ii. 3/5 From the doggery of Howard and Esther Wilkins..arose a continuous chorus of canine cacophony. 1967 Valley News (Van Nuys, Calif.) 16 June (Classified section) 22/7 (advt.) Kaye Lyn's Doggery. Dachs, $65. Poodles, $75. 1999 Post & Courier (Charleston, S. Carolina) (Nexis) 4 June a20 This $400,000 project will include a 3,000-square-foot cattery and a 2,500-square-foot doggery, where all pets are kept until adopted. 4. a. Dogs collectively. ΚΠ 1843 Morning Herald in Jackson's Oxf. Jrnl. 25 Mar. (Electronic text) The opponents of unharnessed doggery are anxious to legislate upon broad and substantial grounds. 1869 Pall Mall Gaz. 8 Oct. 11 A wolf is soon started, and bolts, scarified, with all the rabble doggery of the country after him. 1880 Graphic (London) 24 Jan. (Electronic text) He was cruelly bitten..by a bull-dog even less erudite than the mastiff. On both these occasions the public opinion of Doggery took part with the stronger side. 1998 Times (Nexis) 31 Oct. Jack Russells, the oicks..of doggery. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > the lowest class > [noun] > the rabble commona1350 rascala1382 rascaldry?1457 routc1475 tag and ragc1535 riff-raff1545 rabble1549 rascabilia1557 rabblement1565 bran1574 rascability1583 rascality1583 canaille1588 canalliary1600 canaglia1607 taga1616 ribble-rabble1635 volge1639 rabble rout1650 tag-rag and bob-tail1660 mobile1676 mobility1690 mob1691 rag-tag (also rag, tag) and bob-tail1725 kennel1726 rough scruff1814 rough scuff1816 tag-rag1826 rascalry1827 rascalment1832 doggery1843 polloi1856 raggle-taggle1958 1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present iv. vii. 392 Doggeries never so diplomaed, bepuffed, gas-lighted, continue Doggeries, and must take the fate of such. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. x. ii. 591 As ugly a Doggery (‘infâme Canaille’ he might well reckon them) as has, before or since, infested the path of a man. 1871 Pall Mall Gaz. 1 Apr. 1/2 The expedient in favour with the first school [sc. Carlyle's] is to chain up all this ‘doggery’. The world is governed by force, they say. 5. Doglike behaviour; mean and contemptible action; mischievousness; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > evil conduct > [noun] unkindheadc1325 unkindnessc1390 disnaturalness1430 unnaturalness1534 unnaturality1548 sluttery1648 malversation1752 doggery1844 Schweinerei1896 society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > [noun] > baseness or moral vileness > conduct slavery1553 smaikry1573 cullionry1611 basery1614 sluttery1648 blackguardism1777 raffery1819 blackguardry1820 doggery1844 Schweinerei1896 1844 W. M. Macmillan Sel. Lett. (1893) 103 Evasive doggeries of every kind. 1857 Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) 26 Mar. (Electronic text) It was unfortunate that on occasions like the present religion should be made a claptrap for political doggery. 1886 T. Hardy Mayor of Casterbridge I. xiii. 158 Such doggery as there was in them ancient days. 1998 Guardian (Nexis) 6 Apr. 7 No matter what he does after the show,..he is a man absolutely intent on depicting men in all their doggery. Especially himself. 6. U.S. Short for hot doggery n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trading place > stall or booth > [noun] > for sale of food or drink shamblec1305 flesh-stall14.. fisher-stall1572 fish-stall1818 whelk-stall1842 coffee stall1850 poultry stall1852 peanut stand1853 raw bar1914 doggery1930 pannam1972 1930 Simpsons' Daily Leader-Times (Ford City, Pa.) 4 June 1/1 I think a hot dog roasting in one of the doggery roasters is too good looking for anything. If only they would taste as good as they look. 1958 Hartford (Connecticut) Courant 5 June 21/5 An Indiana meat packer once made a 7-footer [sc. a hot dog] to celebrate the opening of a Peru Ind. doggery. 2007 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 24 Feb. c5 Hot Doug's isn't quite the standard under-the-el-tracks Chicago doggery. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?1577 |
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