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dogger¹

  • /ˈdɒ.ɡə/ UK
  • /ˈdɑ.ɡɚ/ US

Rhymes with -ɒɡə(ɹ)

Where it comes from

From Dutch, from dogger (“codfish”).

noun doggers

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

dogger²

  • /ˈdɒ.ɡə/ UK
  • /ˈdɑ.ɡɚ/ US

Rhymes with -ɒɡə(ɹ)

noun doggers

  1. UK A participant in the sexual activity of dogging.

dogger³

  • /ˈdɒ.ɡə/ UK
  • /ˈdɑ.ɡɚ/ US

Rhymes with -ɒɡə(ɹ)

noun

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

dogger⁴

  • /ˈdɒ.ɡə/ UK
  • /ˈdɑ.ɡɚ/ US

Rhymes with -ɒɡə(ɹ)

noun doggers

  1. Australia A person employed to kill wild dogs and dingos, in the pastoral industry and rural areas. One of the roaming doggers, Anderson, has since been speared.

dogger⁵

  • /ˈdɒ.ɡə/ UK
  • /ˈdɑ.ɡɚ/ US

Rhymes with -ɒɡə(ɹ)

Where it comes from

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 doggers

  1. Australia, New Zealand A dogman.

dogger⁶

  • /ˈdɒ.ɡə/ UK
  • /ˈdɑ.ɡɚ/ US

Rhymes with -ɒɡə(ɹ)

Where it comes from

From dog + -er (suffix forming slang or colloquial equivalents of words).

noun doggers

  1. diminutive, endearing, humorous Synonym of doggo (“a dog”). Howsabout I feed all you little doggers some dinner?!

    Similar: doggo

Dogger⁷

proper noun

  1. A sea area centred on the Dogger Bank; also a shipping forecast area.
  2. An epoch from 175.6 ± 2.0 to 161.2 ± 4.0 million years ago, a subdivision of the Jurassic.

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

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@misc{dogger_2026,
  title = {dogger},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/dogger},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}