/ˈdɒ.ɡi/, /ˈdɔ.ɡi/, /ˈdɑɡ.i/
OriginFrom dog + -y (diminutive suffix).
- childish, countable, endearingA dog, especially a small one.
“That's such a cute little doggy, Keira!”
“"Come on now, there's a good doggie!"”
- UK, countable, informalA 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 […]”
- countable, historical, uncountableSynonym 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.”
- abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, uncountableEllipsis of doggy style.
“Her favourite position is doggy.”
- not-comparable, slangDoggy style.
- informalSuggestive of or in the manner of a dog.
“King Lune […] had just come from making a round of the kennels with his Huntsman and had only stopped for a moment to wash his doggy hands.”
“The house wore the startled doggy air of having been undeservedly rebuked. I knew the feeling.”
- informalFond of dogs.
- not-comparable, slangDoggy style.
Formsdoggies(plural) · doggie(alternative) · doggier(comparative) · doggiest(superlative)