doggery

noun

1. (countable, obsolete)A squalid tavern.

   “There is an enemy of religion here, who […] keeps a public house, and also a "doggery." […] By his "doggery," he keeps around him a gang of ten or fifteen of the most abandoned persons, whom he employs as assistants in carrying out his nefarious schemes. When intoxicated, he is most abusive; […]”

2. (dated, uncountable)Bestial or underhand behaviour.

   “"There's a lot of 'doggery' about this business," my informant added musingly.”

   “Then it is all doggery and devilry and there is no God and no mercy.”

   “They fed on oily carcasses washed down with rum, brawled away the evenings, and collapsed each night in drunken stupor. After a week of this doggery, they made the rounds again, gathering freshly laid eggs, […]”

3. (uncountable)Dogs generally; the realm or sphere of dogs.

   “[…] we'd distinguish an "entelechial" dog, the "compleat" dog toward which all doggery variously aspires […]”