doggery

English

Etymology

dog +‎ -ery

Noun

doggery (countable and uncountable, plural doggeries)

  1. (countable, obsolete) A squalid tavern.
  2. (uncountable, dated) Bestial behaviour.
    • 1961, Boys' Life, volume 51, number 11, page 13:
      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, […]
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