Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

dogi

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.11 in modern English

Syllables: do-gi
IPA

6

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

2

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A judo or karate uniform.

American usage

noun

plural of doge (“chief magistrate”)

Example Sentences

"Ninpo is a living art and that means the shidoshi-level teachers are all artists of a very physical nature with their own creative viewpoint being exercised to bring the traditional learnings of the schools into alignment with their own personality and the reality of our times. This means that dogi are sometimes replaced with cammies when people are training in the woods or street clothes when training in town."
"We were standing on the lawn near the pool in our bright white dogis, he with his black belt and I with my white."

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 道(どう)着(ぎ) (dōgi).

Origin

Source language: Japanese

Word Breakdown

Root: -

Usage

American usage

Inflected Forms

dogis (plural) dōgi (alternative) dougi (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

gi

Synonyms

keikogi

Questions

What does dogi mean?: A judo or karate uniform.
Where does dogi come from?: It is traced to Japanese.

How to pronounce dogi

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