10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DOGGESS»
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The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
doggess. , see DOG'S LADY. doggie,. doggy . A pet name (coll) for a dog: from ca
1800. 2. In coal-mining, a middleman's underground manager (–1845). Disraeli
in Sybil. 3. (Esp. a cavalry) officer's servant: military: mid-C.19–20; ob. 4.
George Augustus H.F. Sala. ready yet, and five hour by San Nicolas he strike
already gone. Soon come the Seiiori and Senoriti, and you have yet the soup to
adjust. Eh, doggess, dello!" Sefior Harispe's English was fluent — indeed, he had
...
George Augustus H.F. Sala, 1860
Soon come the Sefiori and Senoriti, and you have yet the soup to adjust. Eh,
doggess, dello!" Sefior Harispe's English was fluent; indeed, he had resided
fifteen years in England and in Liverpool; but it was peculiar, and its syntax was
defective ...
George Augustus Sala, 1865
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Pictures of Comical People, with Stories about Them: For ...
The poor doggess had died in the darkness between the setting of the sun and
the moon's rise. I was sure that she was dead, yet I howled no, more. My grief
was very great ; for it is a sad, sad thing when you are young to find you are
without ...
Alfred Elwes, Richard H. Horne, 1856
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The Adventures of a Dog and a Good Dog Too
EARLY. DAYS. I was not born in this city of Caneville, but was brought here at so
young an age, that Ihavenorecollection ofany other place. I do not remember
either my father or my mother. An old doggess,[A] who was the only creature I can
...
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Lexicon Balatronicum. A dictionary of Buckish slang, ...
A' she dog or doggess; the most offensive appellation ' that can be given to an
English woman, even more provoking than that of whore, as may be gathered
from the regular Billingsgate or St. Giles's answer—“ I may be a whore but can't
be a ...
Francis Grose, Pierce Egan, 1823
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The Baddington Peerage: who Won, and who Wore it: A Story of ...
Shure then, Misther Harisp," replied the lady so ungallantly apostrophised asa "
doggess," "an' it's all the haste in the wurrold I'm makin', an' all to plaze ye ; an' it's
little harrum the p'hoor dum craturs of p'higs and things can do, takin' jest a ...
George Augustus Sala, 1860
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A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. By Francis Grose
A she dog, or doggess: the most ofl'ensiii'e 33>P§llit1€n that can be given to an
English woman, even more provokigg 'than that of whore, as may be gathered
from the-regular lingsgate or St.Giles's answer—“ I may he a whorg'bubcaxgt be
3.
He was very fond of George Sancton, and he looked upon Dorothea as a most
sage and pleasant elder sister, and all the family at the tea-shop, including a little
doggess called Prim, which Dorothea had recently adopted, were very fond of ...
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The Synonymous, Etymological, and Pronouncing English ...
LANGUAGE. XXV. Male. Female. bachelor maid boar sow boy girl bride
bridegroom brother sister buck doe bull cow cock hen dog bitch, doggess drake
duck drone bee earl countess father mother Male. Female. moor moiisco nephew
niece ...
William Perry (lecturer in the Academy at Edinburgh.), William Perry (of Kelso, Scotland.), Samuel Johnson, 1805
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DOGGESS»
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The Perfect Sentence Construction for Speaking Truth to Power …
As degendered as the proemial bitch might seem, she can't shake her origins as a misogynist slur: “a she dog or doggess,” as Francis Grose ... «Slate Magazine, May 15»
A woman's right to abuse: WTF Not?
... are problematic to me (and people like Priyanka, who reacted to Ankush's comment), and probably why I invented the word 'doggess' at 13. «Daily News & Analysis, Dec 13»
