DCHP-1 Online
dogie † [< dough-guts, with reference to a bloated belly resulting from poor feeding] West 
1 n. a range-herd calf that has lost its mother. Also dogy.
- 1897 There were a few losses among dogies, but these represent an infinitesimal fraction of one per cent. of the entire number of cattle in the district.
- 1963 Under normal weather conditions the cowboys find the dogies sunning themselves in the clearings at fall round-up time and have little difficulty finding them.
2 n. of cattle, a young animal acquired to build up a new herd; a stocker.
- 1897 Owners of dogie cattle--stockers--who have brought their bands through the winter of 1896-7 with any degree of success need not fear that their business will not prove a successful one.
- 1952 About 1890 some of the ranchers decided upon a policy of importing young cattle of the stocker order, called "dogies" or "barnyard cattle."
- 1897 There were a few losses among dogies, but these represent an infinitesimal fraction of one per cent. of the entire number of cattle in the district.