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Definition: Doggie |
DoggieNoun1. Informal terms for dogs. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "doggie" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1814. (references) |
Synonyms: DoggieSynonyms: barker (n), bow-wow (n), doggy (n), pooch (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Nice doggie. (The Pink Panther Strikes Again; writing credit: Blake Edwards; Frank Waldman) | |
Lyrics | Ah doggie is nuttin' if he don' have a bone (Who Let The Dogs Out; performing artist: Baha Men) All doggie hold it (Who Let The Dogs Out; performing artist: Baha Men) If you a doggie on a chain (What Would You Say; performing artist: Dave Matthews Band) We do it to you doggie style (Bow Wow [That's My Name]; performing artist: Lil Bow Wow) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Doggie Bag (1969) Ding Dong Doggie (1937) Hot Doggie (1925) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | Doggie Miller. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Here, doggie, doggie, doggie : Say sister, cut out th' pet names ... Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Doggie Dallas 3" by Marcus Piskura Commentary: "Shots of my ole friend before he was put down." | "Doggie" by Jim Robinson Commentary: "A friends lab." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Right now, the doggie seems to be in fairly good shape. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Doggie" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 86.54% of the time. "Doggie" is used about 52 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 86.54% | 45 | 50,900 |
| Noun (proper) | 13.46% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 52 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "doggie": doggie bag. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "doggie": doggie-fashion. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
doggie style | 3,749 | snoop doggie style | 20 |
doggie | 471 | doggie doorbell | 19 |
doggie bag | 359 | blonde doggie style | 18 |
doggie door | 325 | doggie fizzle televizzle | 18 |
big doggie | 253 | black doggie style | 18 |
doggie day care | 197 | doggie style movie | 16 |
snoop dog doggie style | 133 | augie doggie | 16 |
doggie style pic | 67 | asian doggie style | 15 |
doggie girl gone style wild | 47 | doggie treat | 15 |
doggie style record | 47 | doggie style thumb | 15 |
doggie dooley | 47 | doggie position | 14 |
teen doggie style | 35 | doggie free movie style | 14 |
how much is that doggie in the window | 31 | big doggie net | 14 |
doggie style picture | 28 | doggie style position | 12 |
doggie diaper | 26 | doggie style video | 12 |
free doggie style | 25 | doggie mature style | 12 |
free doggie style pic | 22 | couple doggie style | 11 |
doggie fizzle | 21 | doggie girl style | 11 |
snoop doggie dog | 21 | snoop doggy dog doggie style | 11 |
doggie ebony style | 20 | doggie teen | 11 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "doggie"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | bubi. (various references) | |
Arabic | هزلي (burlesque, comic, comical, farcical, funny, humorous, joker, prankish, priceless, quizzical, waggish), ردئ (bad, base, bastard, bum, coarse, common, evil, fearful, fiendish, foul, ill, inferior, nice, paltry, poor, poorness, putrid, second rate, slim, sour, tacky, tinpot, unhealthy, vicious, villainous, watery). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | кученце (antirrhinum, pup, puppy, snapdragon, whelp). (various references) | |
Czech | psíèek (lap dog, lapdog), pejsek, pejsánek. (various references) | |
French | de chien, toutou, chien-chien. (various references) | |
German | Hündchen (doggies, doggy, pooch, pup, puppy, puppy dog). (various references) | |
Greek | σκυλάκι (doggy, lapdog, pup, puppy, snapdragon, whelp). (various references) | |
Hebrew | כלבלב (mutt, puppy, whelp), כלבון (pup, puppy), כלב (dog). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kutyus (bow-wow, doggy, puppy), kutyuska (doggy), kutyaszerű (doggish, doggy), jampecos (doggy, foppish, swagger). (various references) | |
Italian | cagnolino (lapdog, pup, puppy). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ドイツ連邦共和国 (a do-it-yourself store, cancel at the last minute, Debussy, dock, docking, doctor, doctor course, doctrine, document, documental, documentary, documentary drama, documentation, dodecaphony, dodge ball, doeskin, dog racing, dogfight, doggie bag, dogma, dogmatic, dogmatism, dogmatist, doily, do-it-yourself, dominant, domino, donor, doom, doo-wop, dot, dot map, dot matrix, dot printer, dwell, dwelling, Federal Republic of Germany, referee's stop, thud, to be noisy, to make noise, yakuza sword), ワラント債 (110 camera, 6-8 seat automobile with sliding door, bonds with warrants, bow-wow, cost of maintaining a pet dog, doggie fashion, down one out, katakana for "we", katakana for "wi", migratory bird, minivan, non-returnable bottle, once through, one, one down, one step at a time, one touch, one two, one way bottle, one-length, one-man, one-man bus, one-man show, one-piece dress, one-point relief, one-sided, one-step, people-mover, punch, studio apartment, studio flat, version, version-up, violin, vitality, wand, warrant loan, wonder, wonderland). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ドギーバッグ (doggie bag), ワンワンスタイル (doggie fashion). (various references) | |
Manx | moddey beg (toy dog). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oggieday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | totó (doggy), cãozinho (puppy). (various references) | |
Romanian | cãţeluş (doggy, puppy), cãţel (cub, doggy, flunkey, pup, puppy, toady, whelp, young dog), câinişor (puppy dog), câine (beast, bow-bow, brute, dog, hound, wow-wow). (various references) | |
Russian | собачка (arresting device, click, detent, dog, doggy, pawl). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kuče. (various references) | |
Spanish | perro pequeño, perrito (doggy, hot dog, puppy). (various references) | |
Swedish | vovve (bowwow, doggy). (various references) | |
Turkish | kuçu kuçu (bow wow, doggy), küçük köpek. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | собачка (doggy). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | chó má thích chó (doggy), chó con (doggy), chó (doggy, sled, sleigh). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "doggie": doggier, doggies, doggiest. (additional references) | |
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"Doggie" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Coggie, daggy, Dgiii, diggy, dogga, dogge, doggel, doggen, doggid, doggle, d'orgue, droggy, Dugie, Dugue, Dxgiii, dzongri, hoggie, Oggie, ogie, togie. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "doggie" (pronounced dô"gē) |
| 4 | d ô" g ē | doggy. |
| 3 | -ô" g ē | smoggy. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-g-g-i-o" | |
-1 letter: dogie, geoid. | |
-2 letters: doge, gied. | |
-3 letters: die, dig, doe, dog, egg, ego, ged, gid, gie, gig, god, ode. | |
-4 letters: de, do, ed, go, id, od, oe. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-g-g-i-o" | |
+1 letter: doggier, doggies. | |
+2 letters: disgorge, doggiest. | |
+3 letters: defogging, demagogic, disgorged, disgorges, dogearing, doggeries, pedagogic. | |
+4 letters: demagogies, demagoging, derogating, dingdonged, doglegging, dungeoning, geologized, gorgonized, gudgeoning, guerdoning, pedagogics, pedagogies, undergoing. | |
+5 letters: bludgeoning, codesigning, decoupaging, demagoguing, doggishness, dogsledding, forejudging, ganglioside, goaltending, longsighted, overgilding, overgirding, overgoading, pedagogical, pettifogged. | |
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