<B>dogger</B> (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a boat with a broad bow and two masts, used by fishermen in the North Sea. </DL>
<A NAME="dogger">
<B>dogger</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person who dogs. <DD><B> 2. </B>(in lumbering) a person who attaches dogs or hooks to a log when it is to be drawn by means of a cable. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Australian.) a person who traps dingoes. </DL>
<A NAME="doggerel">
<B>doggerel, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> very poor poetry; poetry that is not artistic in form or meaning. <BR> <I>Ex. What the child wrote was doggerel; but what she felt and did was often a lyric (Harper's).</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>of or like doggerel; not artistic; crude; poor. <BR> <I>Ex. doggerel verses. A doggerel ballad ... in which their wrongs were expressed with uncouth vigor (John Motley).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(of verse) comic in style and irregular in form. Also, <B>doggrel.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="doggerelist">
<B>doggerelist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a writer of doggerel. <BR> <I>Ex. English born doggerelist Robert W. Service ... successfully mined a heap of gold with his pen (Time).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="doggerelize">
<B>doggerelize, </B>intransitive verb, transitive verb, <B>-ized,</B> <B>-izing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to write or turn into doggerel. </DL>
<A NAME="doggery">
<B>doggery, </B>noun, pl. <B>-geries.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>mean or mischievous action or conduct. <DD><B> 2. </B>dogs. <DD><B> 3. </B>worthless people; rabble; riffraff. <DD><B> 4. </B>(U.S. Slang.) a cheap saloon; bar. </DL>
<A NAME="doggie">
<B>doggie, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a little dog. <DD><B> 2. </B>a pet name for a dog. Also, <B>doggy.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="doggiebag">
<B>doggie bag,</B> <B>=doggy bag.</B></DL>
<A NAME="doggish">
<B>doggish, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or like a dog; canine. <DD><B> 2. </B>mean; surly; snarling; cynical. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Informal.) stylish. adv. <B>doggishly.</B> noun <B>doggishness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="doggo">
<B>doggo, </B>adjective, adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Slang.) hidden; in hiding. <BR> <I>Ex. to lie doggo.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="doggone">
<B>doggone, </B>adjective, <B>-goner,</B> <B>-gonest,</B> adverb, verb, <B>-goned,</B> <B>-goning.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Slang.) <DD><I>adj. </I> damned; darned. <DD><I>adv. </I> very. <BR> <I>Ex. The test was doggone hard.</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> to damn; darn. <BR> <I>Ex. Doggone it, man! Make haste then! (Mayne Reid).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="doggoned">
<B>doggoned, </B>adjective, adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Slang.) doggone. <BR> <I>Ex. Television might be a lot more exciting if the audience and the networks weren't so doggoned predictable (TV Guide).</I> </DL>
<B>doggy, </B>adjective, <B>-gier,</B> <B>-giest,</B> noun, pl. <B>-gies.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>like a dog. <DD><B> 2. </B>very fond of dogs. <BR> <I>Ex. the doggy set.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Informal.) outwardly showy or stylish. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>=doggie.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="doggybag">
<B>doggy bag,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a bag given to a customer of a restaurant to carry home leftover food supposedly to feed a dog. <BR> <I>Ex. [His] wife couldn't finish her turkey sandwich. The elderly waitress put it in a doggy bag for her (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="dogheaded">
<B>dog-headed, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having a head like that of a dog; cynocephalous. </DL>
<A NAME="doghole">
<B>doghole, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a hole or a kennel for a dog. <DD><B> 2. </B>a burrow of a prairie dog. <DD><B> 3. </B>a place fit only for dogs; dirty place to live. <DD><B> 4. </B>(U.S. Slang.) a small coal mine. </DL>
<A NAME="doghouse">
<B>doghouse, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a small house or shelter for a dog; kennel. <DD><B> 2. </B>a place where the batch is fed into a furnace in glassmaking. <BR><I>expr. <B>in the doghouse,</B> </I>(Slang.) out of favor. <BR> <I>Ex. He is in the doghouse with his mother for stealing cookies. Being in the doghouse, he had already been condemned to some menial task like checking the inventory of bales of carbon paper (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="dogie">
<B>dogie, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Western U.S. and Canada.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a calf without a mother, especially on the range or in a herd of cattle. <DD><B> 2. </B>an undersized calf; runt. Also, <B>dogy.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="doglatin">
<B>dog Latin,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>incorrect Latin. <DD><B> 2. </B>an imitation of Latin; English with Latin endings. </DL>
<A NAME="dogleg">
<B>dogleg, </B>adjective, noun, verb, <B>-legged,</B> <B>-legging.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> bent like a dog's hind leg; having sharp angles; zigzagging. <BR> <I>Ex. a dogleg fence.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> anything shaped like a dog's hind leg: <DD><B> a. </B>a fairway on a golf course of this shape. <BR> <I>Ex. Many of the long holes on the courses ... are characterized by doglegs (New York Times).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>a route, passage, or course of this shape. <BR> <I>Ex. And they don't draw the streets quite straight; they give each a little dogleg (Harper's).</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> to take a dogleg turn; angle off. <BR> <I>Ex. He then proceeded to misplay the thirteenth, a 475-yard par 5 that doglegs sharply to the left (New Yorker).</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> to turn aside from; avoid. <BR> <I>Ex. That particular office tends to be ... doglegged by the City patronage (Manchester Guardian Weekly).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="doglegged">
<B>doglegged, </B>adjective. <B>=dogleg.</B></DL>
<A NAME="doglike">
<B>doglike, </B>adjective, adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> in the manner of or like a dog. <BR> <I>Ex. His doglike faithfulness was touching (adj.). The workers curled up, doglike, under the shade (adv.).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="dogma">
<B>dogma, </B>noun, pl. <B>-mas,</B> <B>-mata.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a belief taught or held as true, especially by authority of a church; doctrine. <BR> <I>Ex. Gist of the charges against them: refusal to accept Biblical authority on essentials of Lutheran dogma, notably the virgin birth and Christ's physical resurrection and ascension (Time).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>any system of established principles and tenets. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) an opinion asserted in a positive manner as if it were of the highest authority. </DL>
<A NAME="dogman">
<B>dogman, </B>noun, pl. <B>-men.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person who breeds or shows dogs; an authority on dogs. <BR> <I>Ex. [He] was my uncle's dogman, as well as butler and groom (New Yorker).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Australian.) a person who directs a crane driver during building operations. </DL>
<A NAME="dogmatic">
<B>dogmatic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or having to do with dogma; doctrinal. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) positive and emphatic in asserting opinions; overbearing. <BR> <I>Ex. The audience disliked the speaker's dogmatic manner in stating his opinions as if they were facts. He is no longer interrogative but dogmatic (Benjamin Jowett).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) asserted in a positive and emphatic manner. <BR> <I>Ex. He has no evidence to prove his dogmatic statement that the textbook was wrong. ... dogmatic jargon learnt by heart (John Gay).</I> adv. <B>dogmatically.</B> </DL>
<B>dogmatism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> positive and emphatic assertion of opinion. <BR> <I>Ex. Dogmatism is likely to arouse opposition. Where there is most doubt there is often the most dogmatism (William H. Prescott).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="dogmatist">
<B>dogmatist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person who asserts opinions as if they were authoritative. <DD><B> 2. </B>a person who states dogmas. </DL>
<A NAME="dogmatization">
<B>dogmatization, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the act of dogmatizing. </DL>
<A NAME="dogmatize">
<B>dogmatize, </B>verb, <B>-tized,</B> <B>-tizing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.i. </I> to assert opinions in a positive or authoritative manner; speak or write in a dogmatic way. <BR> <I>Ex. It is difficult, without intimate knowledge, to dogmatize too freely about the climate of opinion (Wall Street Journal).</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> to assert or deliver as a dogma. </DL>
<A NAME="dogmatizer">
<B>dogmatizer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who dogmatizes; dogmatist. </DL>
<A NAME="dognap">
<B>dognap, </B>transitive verb, intransitive verb, <B>-napped,</B> <B>-napping</B> or <B>-naped,</B> <B>-naping.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to steal (a dog or dogs) to collect ransom or to sell them. noun <B>dognapper,</B> <B>dognaper.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="dogon">
<B>Dogon, </B>noun, pl. <B>-gons</B> or <B>-gon.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a member of a Sudanic-speaking people of Mali in western Africa. They live in rocky cliffs and are farmers. </DL>
<A NAME="dogood">
<B>do-good, </B>verb, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) <DD><I>v.i. </I> to be or act like a do-gooder. <DD><I>adj. </I> of or characteristic of do-gooders or do-goodery. <BR> <I>Ex. ... the cultural vagaries of do-good endeavours that swing from Homes for Old Ladies to Junior League (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="dogooder">
<B>do-gooder, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) a person who is too eager to correct or set things right. <BR> <I>Ex. an emotional, unthinking, compulsive and naive do-gooder (Ellis Magazine).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="dogoodery">
<B>do-goodery, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) the beliefs or actions of a do-gooder or do-gooders. <BR> <I>Ex. Slogans ... well-worn by international do-goodery (New Scientist).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="dogoodism">
<B>do-goodism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) do-goodery. <BR> <I>Ex. the phraseology of do-goodism (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
