dogie, dogy U.S.
(ˈdəʊgɪ)
[Of obscure origin.]
A motherless, neglected, or undernourished calf on a cattle range. Also attrib.
| [1888 Cent. Mag. Oct. (Farmer), They were mostly Texan doughies—a name I have never seen written, it applies to young immigrant cattle.] 1892 Outing (U.S.) Feb. 358 A queer, pot-bellied little dogy (a calf prematurely weaned by the death of its mother and developed into a runt). 1903 A. Adams Log of Cowboy vii. 86 Before you could say Jack Robinson our dogies..were running in half a dozen different directions. 1911 H. Quick Yellowstone Nights v. 124 The Old Man..was a one-lunger when this dogie enterprise started. 1920 J. M. Hunter Trail Drivers of Texas 130 A dogie calf that had got into the herd. Ibid. 151 It took us just exactly three months and twenty days to drive a herd of southern ‘dogies’ from Red River. 1962 E. B. Atwood Regional Vocab. Texas 56 For a calf, particularly a ‘range’ calf, unaccompanied by a parent, the usual Texas term is dogie... A dogie, according to various informants is ‘small’, ‘undernourished’..or of ‘inferior breed’. |