doggery

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   historical US: a cheap, disreputable saloon or tavern

   The deserted doggery still had a broken bar and cards scattered across the floor.

Formed from dog + -ery, using dog in a disparaging sense for something low or disreputable. In nineteenth-century American English, a doggery was a cheap saloon or dive.

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