"doggery" meaning in All languages combined

See doggery on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: doggeries [plural]
Etymology: From dog + -ery. Etymology templates: {{suf|en|dog|ery}} dog + -ery Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} doggery (countable and uncountable, plural doggeries)
  1. (countable, obsolete) A squalid tavern. Tags: countable, obsolete
    Sense id: en-doggery-en-noun-3dJ9ZlEo
  2. (uncountable, dated) Bestial or underhand behaviour. Tags: dated, uncountable
    Sense id: en-doggery-en-noun-qjD-uaw2 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ery, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 6 73 22 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ery: 6 69 25 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 4 78 18 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 3 88 9
  3. (uncountable) Dogs generally; the realm or sphere of dogs. Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-doggery-en-noun-mK7p7Dgb

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1846, Home Missionary, volume 19, page 125:",
          "text": "There is an enemy of religion here, who […] keeps a public house, and also a \"doggery.\" […] By his \"doggery,\" he keeps around him a gang of ten or fifteen of the most abandoned persons, whom he employs as assistants in carrying out his nefarious schemes. When intoxicated, he is most abusive; […]",
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        "(countable, obsolete) A squalid tavern."
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          "ref": "1935, Frank Philpott Bacon, The Use of Spiritualism in the Drama, page 126:",
          "text": "Then it is all doggery and devilry and there is no God and no mercy.",
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          "ref": "1961, Boys' Life, volume 51, number 11, page 13:",
          "text": "They fed on oily carcasses washed down with rum, brawled away the evenings, and collapsed each night in drunken stupor. After a week of this doggery, they made the rounds again, gathering freshly laid eggs, […]",
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          "ref": "1967, Stanley Romaine Hopper, David LeRoy Miller, Interpretation: the Poetry of Meaning, page 84:",
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          "text": "Then it is all doggery and devilry and there is no God and no mercy.",
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        "(uncountable) Dogs generally; the realm or sphere of dogs."
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