[Ads-l] Odd antedating of "dogey"

[Baker, John]

I’ve heard the minced oath “by dogey(s),” growing up in southcentral Kentucky.  It’s presumably an alteration of “by God.”  Apparently it’s rarer than I had thought.  I don’t think it has anything to do with dogie, a calf.


John Baker


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Enigmatic:

1873 Huntington [W. Va.] Advertiser (Aug. 21) 2: In California..."By
dogeys, gentlemen, just shove your teeth into that!"


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