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doge¹

  • /dəʊdʒ/ UK
  • /dəʊʒ/ UK
  • /ˈdəʊ.dʒeɪ/ UK
  • /doʊd͡ʒ/ US
  • /doʊʒ/ US
  • /ˈdoʊ.d͡ʒeɪ/ US

Rhymes with -əʊdʒ, -əʊʒ, -əʊdʒeɪ

Where it comes from

Partly from Middle French doge and partly from its etymon, Italian doge, from Venetan doxe, from Latin ducem, accusative of dux (“leader; commander; ruler”). Doublet of duc, duce, duke, and dux.

noun doges · dogi · Doge

  1. historical The chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa. In the thirteenth century, a new method of appointing the doge, by the famous ballot of Venice, a complicated mixture of choice and chance, was adopted.

doge²

  • /dəʊdʒ/ UK
  • /dəʊʒ/ UK
  • /dəʊɡ/ UK
  • /ˈdɒɡ.i/ UK, also
  • /ˈdəʊ.ɡi/ UK
  • /doʊdʒ/ US
  • /doʊʒ/ US
  • /doʊɡ/ US
  • /ˈdɑɡ.i/ US, also
  • /ˈdoʊ.ɡi/ US

Rhymes with -əʊdʒ, -əʊʒ, -əʊɡ, -ɒɡi, -əʊɡi

Where it comes from

From dog, probably as a sensational spelling of doggy like monke. First attested in the 2005 episode "Biz Cas Fri 1" from Homestar Runner.

noun doges

  1. Internet, deliberate, humorous, misspelling Deliberate misspelling of doggy
  2. Internet, humorous Specifically, a Shiba Inu, as in the doge meme. Bobsled wasn't the only Dogecoin-backed sporting success. Fans of Nascar will recognise the car driven by Josh Wise, emblazoned, as it is, with the adorable little doge on its bonnet (pictured above).

doge³

Where it comes from

See DOGE.

verb doges · dogeing · doged

  1. Alternative letter-case form of DOGE Since the lab has been "doged," a petition posted to Change.org by Evgeny Stambulchik asked for signatures to oppose the layoff of the NIST Atomic Spectroscopy Group and has garnered 2,500 signatures as of reporting time. There is also a campaign website.

Doge⁴

noun Doges

  1. historical Alternative letter-case form of doge (“ruler of Venice or Genoa”).

Doge⁵

noun Doges

  1. abbreviation, clipping, informal Clipping of Dogecoin (“a unit of the cryptocurrency”).

Doge⁶

proper noun

  1. Alternative letter-case form of DOGE Two senior USAid security officials were suspended on Sunday for blocking Doge officials from a restricted area, a day after the agency’s website went offline, and Musk posted to X that USAid was “beyond repair” and needed to be shut down.

DOGE⁷

  • /dəʊdʒ/ UK
  • /dəʊʒ/ UK
  • /doʊd͡ʒ/ US
  • /doʊʒ/ US

Rhymes with -əʊdʒ, -əʊʒ

Where it comes from

Back-formation from doge as a backronym, an Internet meme, or from dogecoin, a cryptocurrency that Elon Musk has supported.

proper noun Doge

  1. US, abbreviation, acronym Acronym of Department of Government Efficiency It is not known how big a budget DOGE will have, how many people it will itself employ, or how much of the American taxpayers’ dollars it will require.

verb DOGEs · DOGEing · DOGEd · DOGE'd

  1. transitive To fire, scale back or remove in an attempt to improve efficiency. There was a huge exodus over at the National Archives for snickety librarians were getting DOGEd silly.

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noun chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa

Españoldux, dogo
हिन्दीडोगे ḍoge
Portuguêsdoge
Françaisdoge
DeutschDoge
Italianodoge
Ελληνικάδόγης dógis
Românădoge
Русскийдож dož
العربيةدُوق dūq, دوج dōj

noun internet slang

Русскийпёсель pjóselʹ, соба́кен sobáken

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"doge." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/doge. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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Chicago

"doge." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/doge.

BibTeX
@misc{doge_2026,
  title = {doge},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/doge},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}