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Definition of Dogie
1. Noun. Motherless calf in a range herd of cattle.
Definition of Dogie
1. Noun. (context: cowboy slang colloquial) A motherless calf in a range herd of cattle; a calf separated from its cow. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dogie
1. a stray calf [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dogie
Literary usage of Dogie
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads by John Avery Lomax (1918)
"dogie SONG THE cow-bosses are good-hearted chunks, Some short, some heavy, more
long; But don't matter what he looks like, They all sing the same old song. ..."
2. The lyre: a collection of the most approved Scottish, English, and Irish by Lyre (1824)
"... coming: Wi' his blue bonnet on his head, And his dogie running; Wi' his blue
bonnet on his head, And his dogie running, quo' she, And his dogie running? ..."
3. Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, Heroic Ballads, Etc. by David Herd, Sidney Gilpin, George Paton (1870)
"... faw ye JOHNY cumin, quo' fhe, Saw ye JOHNY cumin ; O faw ye JOHNY cumin, quo'
fhe, Saw ye JOHNY cumin ; * WT his blew bonnet on his head, And his dogie ..."
4. A Pedlar's Pack of Ballads and Songs: With Illustrative Notes by William Hugh Logan, James Maidment (1869)
"See you Jonnie coming," quoth she, See you Jonnie coming, Wi' his coat of hodden
gray, And his dogie running ? See him coming o'er the lee, And his dogie ..."
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