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- noun A
female dog .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Ten rappers were cited in the legislation, along with an excerpt from an 1811 dictionary that defined the word as "A she dog, or doggess; the most offensive appellation that can be given to an English woman."
David Harsanyi: What's Missing Here? How About "Free Speech"? 2008
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So, in dogdom, if a doggess propagates dogkind, does that mean she is a dogma?
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But on the internet nobody can tell whether one is actually a dog, or a doggess.
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I was awoke from this day-dream by the voice of an old, but very clean doggess, inquiring if my name was Mr. Job?
The Adventures of a Dog, and a Good Dog Too Alfred Elwes
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The poor doggess had died in the darkness between the setting of the sun and the moon's rise.
The Adventures of a Dog, and a Good Dog Too Alfred Elwes
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On her bed of straw, evidently at the point of death, lay my poor doggess.
The Adventures of a Dog, and a Good Dog Too Alfred Elwes
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My principal sensation was that of savage joy, to think I had saved the son of the doggess who had caused me such unkind treatment.
The Adventures of a Dog, and a Good Dog Too Alfred Elwes
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I set down my load just in time to avoid upsetting a very fat and splendidly dressed doggess, who must, if I had run the wheel into her back, and it was very near it, have gone head foremost into the barrow.
The Adventures of a Dog, and a Good Dog Too Alfred Elwes
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The sound even called back the departing senses of the dying doggess.
The Adventures of a Dog, and a Good Dog Too Alfred Elwes
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Every now and then, a howl would break from a doggess in the crowd, as a dead body was seen tossed about by the angry water; and the same dolorous cries might be heard from different quarters, mixed up with the roar of the river.
The Adventures of a Dog, and a Good Dog Too Alfred Elwes
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