doggery

[ daw-guh-ree, dog-uh- ]

noun

, plural dog·ger·ies.

1. doglike behavior or conduct, especially when surly.
2. dogs collectively.
3. rabble; mob.
4. Older Slang. a place where liquor is sold; saloon.

doggery

/ ˈdɒɡərɪ /

noun

1. surly behaviour
2. dogs collectively
3. a mob

Word History and Origins

Origin of doggery¹

First recorded in 1605–15; dog + -ery

Example Sentences

“It was the most dangerous, being the finest. The low doggery will take the low and keep them low, but these so-called respectable ones will take the respectable, make them low, then kick them out.”

From Slate

What is more certain is that German immigrants began serving frankfurters in New York City in the second half of the nineteenth century, and Nathan’s Famous, the Coney Island hot doggery, founded in 1916, helped to put the city’s franks on the map.

From The New Yorker

On the opposite side of the river the dam-head and the camp street were deserted, but there were lights in the commissary, in the office shack, and in Blue Pete Simms's canteen doggery.

From Project Gutenberg

In Colfax the chief sources of exciting amusement are dog fights and an occasional row at Sheehan's saloon, a doggery of the regular old-fashioned, drink, gamble, rob and fight sort—a low place, known to all the hard bats in the State.

From Project Gutenberg

So much had this doggery become frequented by these gentlemen that it became jocularly known among them as the "club annex."

From Project Gutenberg