A low drinking-place.
1835. A sort of Dutch doggery, or sailor’s hotel, situated near the wharf.—D. P. Thompson, ‘Timothy Peacock,’ p. 140.
1848. The drunkard, while reeling homeward from the doggery, is attracted by both sides of the street, which accounts for his diagonal movements.—Dow, Jun., ‘Patent Sermons,’ i. 99.
1850. A doggery is too contemptible for any man who has a soul more elevated than the swine to condescend to.—Frontier Guardian, March 20 (Orson Hyde, editor).
1850. [I heaved] a delectable morsel [of mud], as I passed the “doggery,” full in the mouth of a picayune demagogue, and hit him “vim” in the patent orifice.—H. C. Lewis (‘Madison Tensas’), ‘Odd Leaves,’ p. 91 (Phila.).
1854. An altercation had arisen at the grocery (fashionably called doggery).—J. G. Baldwin, ‘Flush Times,’ p. 65.
1854. And then the doggery-keepers got to sellin’ licker by the drink, instead of the half-pint, and a dime a drink at that; and then the Devil was to pay, and NO mistake.—Id., p. 308.
1855. Some say that this fellow-feeling between him and the marshal results from the fact that he was a doggery-keeper in the States.—Weekly Oregonian, April 7.
1856. The present law does not prevent doggeries.—Id., Feb. 2.
1857. You may take a constable; he has got to pledge his honour to support such a man, no matter whether he keeps a doggery, a groggery, or whether he is an honest man or a rogue.—John Taylor at the Bowery, Salt Lake City, Aug. 9: ‘Journal of Discourses,’ v. 119.
1858. I found copies stuck up on every blacksmith shop, doggery, and store-door in the Frog Mountain Range.—‘Sut Lovengood’s Lizards,’ in the Olympia (W.T.) Pioneer, Feb. 26.
1864. It took only a few years of your peculiar management to fill Jonesville with doggeries and loafers, and to prove to you that your village management had been a sorry failure.—J. G. Holland, ‘Letters to the Joneses,’ p. 15.
