variants
or doggie
plural doggies
: a usually small dog
doggier; doggiest
Examples of doggy in a Sentence
Noun
what a good little doggy!
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Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Screenshots from a July 16 TikTok video of a yellow Labrador curling up on a tiny bed every night after his doggy sibling passed.
—Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Aug. 2025
Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Nov. 2025
The doggy school bus, operated by Hope Mehlberg, transports between 22 and 26 dogs of all kinds of breeds, sizes and ages every day, picking them up from their homes and taking them to a three-acre park, where the dogs play and socialize with each other, Mehlberg previously told USA TODAY.
—Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 29 Oct. 2025
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Noun
The suffix -y here is the same as in words like doggy or smarty, used to form nicknames or informal descriptors.
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Screenshots from a July 16 TikTok video of a yellow Labrador curling up on a tiny bed every night after his doggy sibling passed.
—Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Aug. 2025
Adjective
The Barkmore, a pet boarding and daycare facility located in Tennessee, decided to share with one of their doggy residents' owners a photo of how the day was looking.
—Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Nov. 2025
The doggy school bus, operated by Hope Mehlberg, transports between 22 and 26 dogs of all kinds of breeds, sizes and ages every day, picking them up from their homes and taking them to a three-acre park, where the dogs play and socialize with each other, Mehlberg previously told USA TODAY.
—Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 29 Oct. 2025
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“Doggy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/doggy. Accessed 17 Nov. 2025.
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