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dogey

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do⋅gey

[doh-gee]
–noun, plural -geys.
dogie.

do⋅gie

[doh-gee]
–noun Western U.S.
a motherless calf in a cattle herd.
Also, dogey, dogy.


Origin:
1885–90, Americanism; orig. obscure; alleged to be doughg(uts) + -ie
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dogie 
"motherless calf in a herd," 1888, cowboy slang.
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