1871. De Vere, Americanisms, p. 315. Doggeries are only found near
the shanties of Irish laborers or in remote western and southern
settlements.
Doggoned, adj. (American).—A euphemistic oath.—See Oaths.
1852. Gladstone, Englishman in Kansas, p. 46. If there’s a
dog-goned abolitionist aboard this boat, I should like to see him.
I’m the man to put a chunk o’ lead into his woolly head right off.
1873. Carlton, Farm Ballads, p. 80. But when that choir got up to
sing, I couldn’t catch a word; They sung the most dog-gondest thing
A body ever heard!
1879. Eggleston, The Hoosier Schoolmaster. I never knowed but one
gal in my life as had cyphered into fractions, and she was so dog
on stuck up, that she turned up her nose one night at an
apple-peelin’ bekase I tuck a sheet off the bed to splice out the
table-cloth, which was rather short.
Doggy, subs. (mining).—See quot.
1845. Disraeli, Sybil, bk. III., ch. i., note. A Batty in the
mining districts is a middleman; a doggy is his manager.
Adj. (colloquial).—1. Connected with, or relating to dogs.
1883. Graphic, 24 Feb., p. 199, col. 3. Liverpool and the Adelphi
Hotel in particular, are now [time of Altcar coursing meeting] the
headquarters of all the doggy men of the three kingdoms.