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Definition of Doggesses
1. doggess [n] - See also: doggess
Lexicographical Neighbors of Doggesses
Literary usage of Doggesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley by Thomas Henry Huxley, Leonard Huxley (1900)
"It is uncommonly good of the Lord Mayor to stand up for Science, in the teeth of
the row the anti-vivisection pack—dogs and doggesses—are ..."
2. Scinde, Or, the Unhappy Valley by Richard Francis Burton (1851)
"O sons of doggesses ! What shameful work is this?" " Sahib, is it by your order
and direction that thy man smites me upon the lips with his slipper? ..."
3. The Works of Samuel Richardson by Samuel Richardson, Leslie Stephen (1883)
"Pretty dogs and doggesses to quarrel and bark at me, and yet, whenever I appear,
afraid to pop out of their kennels; or, if out before they see me, ..."
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