doggery

== English == === Etymology === From dog +‎ -ery. === Noun === doggery (countable and uncountable, plural doggeries) (countable, obsolete) A squalid tavern. 1829. Atwater Remarks Made on a Tour to Prairie du Chien.... Page 59 in context of mixed race community at of Am. Fur Co. station at Keokuck, Iowa: "their lights on the rapids, in a dark night, were darting about, appearing and disappearing like so many fire flies; the constant roaring of the waters on the rapids, the occasional Indian yell, the lights of their fires on the shore, and the boisterous mirth of the people at the doggery, attracted my attention occasionally, while we were lying here." and at Galena in lead region p.192 "Mr Gratiot has a large lead furnace here; and there is a store of dry goods, but no doggery in the village." (uncountable, dated) Bestial or underhand behaviour. (uncountable) Dogs generally; the realm or sphere of dogs. ==== Related terms ==== hot doggery ==== References ==== John Camden Hotten (1873), The Slang Dictionary Caleb Atwater (1831), Remarks Made on a Tour to Prairie du Chien; thence to Washington City in 1829