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单词 dogie
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dogie


do·gie

also do·gy D0323100 (dō′gē)n. pl. do·gies Western US A stray or motherless calf.
[Origin unknown.]Word History: In the language of the American West, a stray or motherless calf is known as a dogie. The origin of this word remains uncertain, but Ramon F. Adams, the author of numerous works on western Americana and a cowboy himself, offered one possible etymology for dogie in his book Western Words. During the 1880s, when a series of harsh winters left large numbers of orphaned calves, the little calves, weaned too early, were unable to digest coarse range grass, and their swollen bellies "very much resembled a batch of sourdough carried in a sack." Such a calf was referred to as dough-guts. The term, altered to dogie according to Adams, "has been used ever since throughout cattleland to refer to a pot-gutted orphan calf." Another possibility is that dogie is an alteration of Spanish dogal, "lariat." Still another is that it is simply a variant pronunciation of doggie.

dogie

(ˈdəʊɡɪ) ,

dogy

or

dogey

n, pl -gies or -geys (Agriculture) Western US and Canadian a motherless calf[C19: from dough-guts, because they were fed on flour and water paste]

do•gie

(ˈdoʊ gi)

n., pl. -gies. Western U.S. a motherless calf. [1885–90, Amer.; orig. obscure; alleged to be doughg(uts) + -ie]
Thesaurus
Noun1.dogie - motherless calf in a range herd of cattledogy, leppycalf - young of domestic cattle
EncyclopediaSeecalf

dogie


  • noun

Synonyms for dogie

noun motherless calf in a range herd of cattle

Synonyms

  • dogy
  • leppy

Related Words

  • calf
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