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dogie

 [doh-gee]   Origin

do·gie

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

Origin:
1885–90, Americanism; origin obscure; alleged to be doughg(uts) + -ie
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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dogie, dogy or dogey (ˈdəʊɡɪ)
 
—n , pl -gies, -geys
(Western US), (Canadian) a motherless calf
 
[C19: from dough-guts, because they were fed on flour and water paste]
 
dogy, dogy or dogey
 
—n
 
[C19: from dough-guts, because they were fed on flour and water paste]
 
dogey, dogy or dogey
 
—n
 
[C19: from dough-guts, because they were fed on flour and water paste]

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dogie
"motherless calf in a herd," 1888, cowboy slang.
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