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Dogger
Definitions
- 1 A sea area centred on the Dogger Bank; the name of a shipping forecast area.
- 1 A two-masted fishing vessel, used by the Dutch until around the 18th century.
- 2 A participant in the sexual activity of dogging. British
- 3 A sort of stone, found in the mines with the true alum rock, chiefly of silica and iron.
- 4 A wild dog trapper employed in the pastoral industry. Australia
- 5 A dogman. Australia, New-Zealand
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- 6 Synonym of doggo (“a dog”). diminutive, endearing, humorous
"Howsabout I feed all you little doggers some dinner?!"
Etymology
From Dutch, from dogger (“codfish”).
From dog (verb) + -er.
From dog + -er.
From dog (“part of a crane that holds the items to be lifted”) + -er, from the fact that such a person would often ride on the load lifted by the crane when carrying out their duty. Created as a gender-neutral substitute for the older term dogman.
dog + -er but using this suffix playfully in a way it is not normally used; essentially just a nonsense substitution of syllable -er where the diminutive suffixes -o or -ie or -y would normally stand, while also facetiously construable as the agent noun for being a dog, if to dog meaning to be a dog were a unitary English verb: thus, the agent noun would denote one who exhibits dogness. More at Wikipedia at DoggoLingo § Structure and usage.
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