dogger
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 11
- Letters
- 6
/ˈdɒ.ɡə/
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/ˈdɒ.ɡə/ · /ˈdɑ.ɡɚ/
Definition of dogger
8 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- A two-masted fishing vessel, used by the Dutch until around the 18th century.
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noun
- A two-masted fishing vessel, used by the Dutch until around the 18th century.
- (British)A participant in the sexual activity of dogging.
- A sort of stone, found in the mines with the true alum rock, chiefly of silica and iron.
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(Australia)A person employed to kill wild dogs and dingos, in the pastoral industry and rural areas.
“One of the roaming doggers, Anderson, has since been speared.”
- (Australia, New-Zealand)A dogman.
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(diminutive, endearing, humorous)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!”
name
- A sea area centred on the Dogger Bank; also a shipping forecast area.
- An epoch from 175.6 ± 2.0 to 161.2 ± 4.0 million years ago, a subdivision of the Jurassic.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Dutch, from dogger (“codfish”).
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