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  • noun The state or quality of being doggy.

Etymologies

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doggy +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • I Thought You Were Dead (Algonquin, $23.95) has a low-key, indie-movie vibe, with Stella sounding like Juno's older, world-weary aunt and demonstrating perhaps the most complete lack of dogginess since Scrappy-Doo.

    Five new books about dogs Yvonne Zipp 2010

  • If a dog in a book engages with humans they can still retain their dogginess and that can be funny too.

    Louise Rennison has last laugh by winning Roald Dahl funny prize Michelle Pauli 2010

  • They wanted to take Esme, who they'd adopted not that long before they learned of their move, with them, but they were moving into a small apartment with their two big dogs, and poor Ez wouldn't have had a good place to escape the dogginess.

    What if No One's Watching?: November 2008 Archives 2008

  • We posit that * once set in motion* the same forces that generated diverse forms of dogginess, when coupled with the vast resources of time such as that which carved the grand canyon, can yield the flagellum and far more.

    Analogy, How Scientifically Powerful is It? 2006

  • Ruthie bounds towards me, making a mess of her own spreading puddle of dogginess.

    Archive 2008-03-01 2008

  • We posit that * once set in motion* the same forces that generated diverse forms of dogginess, when coupled with the vast resources of time such as that which carved the grand canyon, can yield the flagellum and far more.

    Analogy, How Scientifically Powerful is It? 2006

  • They wanted to take Esme, who they'd adopted not that long before they learned of their move, with them, but they were moving into a small apartment with their two big dogs, and poor Ez wouldn't have had a good place to escape the dogginess.

    NaBloPoMo #1: Show Me Saturday (What if No One's Watching?) 2008

  • Ruthie bounds towards me, making a mess of her own spreading puddle of dogginess.

    Interview with a puppy 2008

  • On the slightly down-at-heels Upper West Side block where the story unfolds, happiness — or the closest Schine's brightly downbeat characters can come to it — is next to dogginess.

    Doggy Affections Schuessler, Jennifer 2007

  • Luitpold, a place lavish and luxurious, but with a certain touch of dogginess, a taste of salt.

    Europe After 8:15 George Jean Nathan 1920

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