dogger
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈdɒ.ɡə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈdɑ.ɡɚ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɒɡə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: dog‧ger
Etymology 1
From Dutch, from dogger (“codfish”).
Noun
dogger (plural doggers)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Noun
dogger (plural doggers)
Etymology 3
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
dogger
Etymology 4
Noun
dogger (plural doggers)
- (Australia) A wild dog trapper employed in the pastoral industry.[1]
Etymology 5
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.
Noun
dogger (plural doggers)
- (Australia, New Zealand) A dogman.
Etymology 6
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.
Noun
dogger (plural doggers)
- (humorous, endearing, diminutive) Synonym of doggo (“a dog”).
- Howsabout I feed all you little doggers some dinner?!
- Get over here you little dogger! That belly needs some scritchin!
References
- ^ Gun for hire Don Sallway leads assault against Queensland's wild dogs ABC News, 28 August 2013. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
See also
Anagrams
Dutch
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdɔ.ɣər/
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: dog‧ger
- Rhymes: -ɔɣər
Noun
dogger m (plural doggers)