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doggery

/daw-guh-ree, dog-uh-/US // ˈdɔ gə ri, ˈdɒg ə- //UK // (ˈdɒɡərɪ) //

狗仔队,狗窝,狗肉,犬舍

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural dog·ger·ies.

    • : doglike behavior or conduct, especially when surly.
    • : dogs collectively.
    • : rabble; mob.
    • : Older Slang. a place where liquor is sold; saloon.

Examples

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

  • Berry subsequently kept a doggery, a whiskey saloon, as I do now, or did.

  • Snatches of drunken song and rude jest came up from an unseen doggery, and vile odors came with them.

  • Desfontaines is dead, safe down in Sodom; but wants not for a successor, for a whole Doggery of such.

  • He is prone in life's very gutter; bloated, reeking and polluted with the doggery's slops and filth.