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dogan
[? <
Dogan,
an Irish surname]
Slang
n.
an Irish Roman Catholic.
In older use, often a derogatory term for a low-class Irish Roman Catholic; in present use, any Roman Catholic, and, frequently, any Catholic. The connotation of the term is only mildly offensive in itself, if at all.