doggy

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɒ.ɡi/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdɔ.ɡi/, /ˈdɑɡ.i/
• Rhymes: -ɒɡi

From dog +‎ -y (diminutive suffix).

doggy (countable and uncountable, plural doggies)

1. (countable, childish or endearing) A dog, especially a small one.

   Synonyms: pup, puppy, puppy dog, pooch, poochie

   That's such a cute little doggy, Keira!

   • 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 33:

     "Come on now, there's a good doggie!"

2. (countable, military, UK, informal) A junior temporarily assigned to do minor duties for a senior; a gofer.
   • 2008, Iain Ballantyne, HMS Rodney: The Famous Ships of the Royal Navy Series:

     The Torpedo Officer and I were on the lower bridge and we each had a doggy, a young midshipman […]

3. (mining, historical) Synonym of corporal.
   • 1847, The Annual Register, page 175:

     […] 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.

4. (uncountable, sex) Ellipsis of doggy style.

   Her favourite position is doggy.

• doggie

• doggy woggy

doggy (not comparable)

1. (slang, of sexual intercourse) Doggy style.

doggy (not comparable)

1. (slang, of sexual intercourse) Doggy style.

• dogie

From Middle English doggi, equivalent to dog +‎ -y (adjectival suffix).

doggy (comparative doggier, superlative doggiest)

1. (informal) Suggestive of or in the manner of a dog.
   • 1954, C. S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy:

     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.

   • 1993, John Banville, Ghosts:

     The house wore the startled doggy air of having been undeservedly rebuked. I knew the feeling.

2. (informal) Fond of dogs.