dogger

See also: Dogger

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdɒ.ɡə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdɑ.ɡɚ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɒɡə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: dog‧ger

Etymology 1

From Dutch, from dogger (“codfish”).

Noun

dogger (plural doggers)

1. A two-masted fishing vessel, used by the Dutch until around the 18th century.

Derived terms

• doggerman

Etymology 2

From dog (verb) +‎ -er.

Noun

dogger (plural doggers)

1. (British) A participant in the sexual activity of dogging.

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

dogger

1. A sort of stone, found in the mines with the true alum rock, chiefly of silica and iron.

Etymology 4

From dog +‎ -er.

Noun

dogger (plural doggers)

1. (Australia) A wild dog trapper employed in the pastoral industry.

Etymology 5

From dog (“part of a crane that holds the items to be lifted”) +‎ -er, from the fact that such a person would often ride on the load lifted by the crane when carrying out their duty. Created as a gender-neutral substitute for the older term dogman.

Noun

dogger (plural doggers)

1. (Australia, New Zealand) A dogman.

Etymology 6

dog +‎ -er but using this suffix playfully in a way it is not normally used; essentially just a nonsense substitution of syllable -er where the diminutive suffixes -o or -ie or -y would normally stand, while also facetiously construable as the agent noun for being a dog, if to dog meaning to be a dog were a unitary English verb: thus, the agent noun would denote one who exhibits dogness. More at Wikipedia at DoggoLingo § Structure and usage.

Noun

dogger (plural doggers)

1. (humorous, endearing, diminutive) 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!

See also

• anti-dogger

Anagrams

• gorged, rogged

Dutch

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɔ.ɣər/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: dog‧ger
• Rhymes: -ɔɣər

Noun

dogger m (plural doggers)

1. dogger, fishing boat used for catching cod and haddock

   Synonym: dogboot

2. (obsolete) cod and haddock fisherman who works from a fishing boat
3. (obsolete) tubular net or fish trap used for catching cod and haddock