Meaning & use
dogy
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A motherless or stray calf, especially on the open range; a variant spelling of "dogie."
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The young cowhand roped a lone dogy wandering near the herd.
Ranchers separated the dogies, spelled here as dogy in older ledgers, from the main herd for extra feeding.
A note on using this word
A term from nineteenth-century American cattle-drive culture, immortalized in the cowboy song "Git Along, Little Dogies."
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dogiestray calf
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