d 2 o 1 g 2 i 1 e 1
5 letters · 7 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun motherless calf in a range herd of cattle
originUnknown. Possibly an abbreviation of dough-guts, the pot bellied appearance of a malnourished calf. Possibly the transliteration of the slang word dobie/dobe/doby, pejoratively meaning inferior. Since dogie and dobie in reference to an orphaned calf both appeared in print around the same time (1880-1888), it is possible that dogie is the original and dobie is the transliteration.
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