doggy
noun
- domestic animal
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈdɒ.ɡi/ / /ˈdɔ.ɡi/ / /ˈdɑɡ.i/
adj
Etymology: From Middle English doggi, equivalent to dog + -y (adjectival suffix).
- Suggestive 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.”
- Fond of dogs.
“I know that, without becoming maudlin as so many doggy people unfortunately do, he thought a great deal of his faithful little companion.”
adv
Etymology: Etymology tree Old English [Term?]? Proto-Germanic *-gô Proto-West Germanic *-gō Old English -ga Old English dogga Middle English dogge English dog Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English doggy From dog + -y (diminutive suffix).
- Doggy style.
noun
Etymology: Etymology tree Old English [Term?]? Proto-Germanic *-gô Proto-West Germanic *-gō Old English -ga Old English dogga Middle English dogge English dog Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English doggy From dog + -y (diminutive suffix).
- A dog, especially a small one.
“That's such a cute little doggy, Keira!”
“"Come on now, there's a good doggie!"”
- A 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 […]”
- Synonym 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.”
- Ellipsis of doggy style.
“Her favourite position is doggy.”