doggy
/ˈdɔ.ɡi/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.33 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "That's such a cute little doggy, Keira!"
- ""Come on now, there's a good doggie!""
- "The Torpedo Officer and I were on the lower bridge and we each had a doggy, a young midshipman […]"
- "[…] 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."
- "Her favourite position is doggy."
- "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."
Etymology
Etymology tree Old English [Term?]? Proto-Germanic *-gô Proto-West Germanic *-gō Old English -ga Old English dogga Middle English dogge English dog Proto-Germanic *-j-, *-ij- Proto-West Germanic *-i, *-ī Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English doggy From dog + -y (diminutive suffix).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈdɔ.ɡi/
- British English: /ˈdɒ.ɡi/
Usage
- Countable
- British usage
- Informal
- Uncountable
- Slang