English: "one's pet dog, mentioned as though it were one's daughter" edit

  • 1996, “You Know the Day..15 year old Vent”, in misc.health.infertility[1] (Usenet):
    She and my other "dog-ter" are what I got from the relationship
  • 2000, “Got to take my dog-ter to work today!”, in alt.support.childfree[2] (Usenet):
  • 2003, “OT: my horse”, in alt.support.lupus[3] (Usenet):
    currently going through a rough time with my 9.5 y.o. dog-ter, Bayta
  • 2008, Lisa Wogan, Dog Park Wisdom[4], →ISBN, page 152:
    Since then, she has taken her "dogter," sometimes sporting heart-shaped sunglasses and a pink visor, everywhere.
  • 2013, Ross Matthews, Man Up!: Tales of My Delusional Self-Confidence[5], →ISBN:
    I dropped everything and raced to my prospective new dog-ter's side.

English: "doglike daughter" edit

  • 1998, “Cook-a-Thon & Freeze Ahead Dinners (Recipes)”, in misc.consumers.frugal-living[6] (Usenet):
    My Mum used to refer to me as her "dog"ter, because she always made me go "fetch" stuff for her

Middle English: "daughter" edit

Probably just belongs at doȝter, not "dogter", even though Google Books treats those as equivalent?