doggy

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɒ.ɡi/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdɔ.ɡi/, /ˈdɑɡ.i/
• Rhymes: -ɒɡi

Etymology 1

From dog +‎ -y (diminutive suffix).

Noun

doggy (countable and uncountable, plural doggies)

1. (countable, childish or endearing) A dog, especially a small one.

   Synonyms: pup, puppy, puppy dog, pooch, poochie

   That's such a cute little doggy, Keira!

   • 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 33:

     "Come on now, there's a good doggie!"

2. (countable, military, UK, informal) A junior temporarily assigned to do minor duties for a senior; a gofer.
   • 2008, Iain Ballantyne, HMS Rodney: The Famous Ships of the Royal Navy Series:

     The Torpedo Officer and I were on the lower bridge and we each had a doggy, a young midshipman […]

3. (mining, historical) Synonym of corporal
   • 1847, The Annual Register, page 175:

     […] the "doggy" sometimes took a safety-lamp, and sometimes not, when he entered the mine in the morning; whether he did on the morning of the catastrophe was not apparent.

4. (uncountable, sex) Short for doggy style.

   Her favourite position is doggy.

Alternative forms

• doggie

Derived terms

• doggy woggy

Related terms

• coconut doggy
• doggy bag
• doggy biscuit
• doggy dinner bowl look
• doggy dog
• doggy fashion
• doggy paddle
• doggy style
• doggy treat
• doggy woggy
• hoo doggy
• whoo doggy
• woo doggy

Translations

a dog, especially a small one

• Armenian: շնիկ (hy) (šnik)
• Bulgarian: ку́ченце (bg) n (kúčence)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 狗仔 (gau² zai²)

  Hokkien: 狗仔 (zh-min-nan) (káu-á)

  Mandarin: 狗狗 (zh) (gǒugou, gǒugōu), 小狗 (zh) (xiǎogǒu)

• Czech: psík (cs) m, pejsek (cs) m
• Danish: vovse (da) c
• Dutch: hondje (nl) n
• Estonian: kutsa, aua (et), koerake, penike, hundu
• Finnish: koira (fi), hauva (fi), koiruli, hauveli (fi)
• French: toutou (fr) m, chienchien (fr) m
• Gallurese: catteddu
• German: Hündchen (de) n, (regional) Hundchen (de), (Bavarian German) Zamperl (de) n, Hündlein (de) n
• Greek: σκυλάκι (el) n (skyláki)
• Hebrew: כלבלב (he) n
• Hungarian: kutyus (hu)
• Ido: hundeto (io)
• Italian: cagnolino (it), cagnolotto m, cagnolotto m
• Marathi: भूभू m (bhūbhū)
• Persian: هاپو (fa) (hâpu)
• Portuguese: cachorrinho (pt) m, totó (pt), au au m
• Russian: соба́чка (ru) f (sobáčka), пёсик (ru) m (pjósik)
• Sardinian:

  Campidanese: catteddu, cacciurru, calleddu

  Logudorese: cacciùcciu, catteddu

• Sassarese: catteddu
• Spanish: perrito (es) m
• Swedish: vovve (sv) c, voffsing (sv) c
• Turkish: köpüş, köpecik
• Volapük: (♂♀) dogil (vo), (♂) hidogil, (♀) jidogil

Adjective

doggy (not comparable)

1. (slang, of sexual intercourse) Doggy style.

Adverb

doggy (not comparable)

1. (slang, of sexual intercourse) Doggy style.

See also

• dogie

Etymology 2

From Middle English doggi, equivalent to dog +‎ -y (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

doggy (comparative doggier, superlative doggiest)

1. (informal) Suggestive of or in the manner of a dog.
   • 1954, C. S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy:

     King Lune […] had just come from making a round of the kennels with his Huntsman and had only stopped for a moment to wash his doggy hands.

   • 1993, John Banville, Ghosts:

     The house wore the startled doggy air of having been undeservedly rebuked. I knew the feeling.

2. (informal) Fond of dogs.

Derived terms

• doggily
• dogginess

Related terms

• lap-doggy

Translations

suggestive of or in the manner of a dog

• Estonian: koeralik, krantslik, penitsi
• German: (in compounds) Hunde-
• Greek: σκυλίσιος (el) (skylísios)
• Ido: hundala (io)
• Italian: canino (it) m
• Russian: соба́чий (ru) (sobáčij)
• Swedish: hundaktig (sv)
• Volapük: dogik (vo)