antedating "dogie"
Jonathan Lighter
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Mon Jun 2 17:52:43 UTC 2014
"An undernourished calf."
OED: 1886
1885 _Lemars [Ia.] Semi Weekly Sentinel_ (Jan. 16) 1: The fact of a few
late-driven and "dogie" cattle dying.
1885 _Austin Weekly Statesman_ (Apr. 23) 1: A large per centage of the
yearlings are "dogies," owing to a dry summer and a hard winter.
The January ex. seems to be based on news from Montana.
JL
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