Tarte?

[technomc]

We have touched on 'dogging' before...well not us personally, i mean in the chi sense...
And we have some very nice little doggies wandering about, with their owners with their doggie bags...
 

[Mancklin]

Re dogging:
I just bought a book called "Dogging it in the Mid-Atlantic" listing the pathetic few places where you can take your dogie for a walk with slightly less than the normal risk of being told to put that animal on a leash. It's a new usage to me.
Mancks

[technomc]

The word 'dogging' here is used for a very nasty hobby that hit the headlines a couple of years ago....
several TV personalities and football players were quite publicly humiliated by it...Not nice..

[Alan W]

O GAGL:

Am I noticing a Down Under bias in what is considered common? "Dingo" is common while "Dogy" is not. Up here in Ohio--even in Ohio, which is not the Wild West--Dogy is more common than Dingo.

Phooey.

E

Yes, E, there is a Down Under bias, and I'm not proud of it! Previous instances brought to light include, I think, nong, drongo and toey. I have vowed to review the common/rare word boundary, to eliminate some of the more blatant anomalies.

However, I'm not sure if I agree about dingo cf dogy/dogie. A Google search on dingo gets about 4.8 million results, whereas dogy gets 363,000 and dogie gets 146,000.

[biggerbirdbrain]

Must be the Aussies' version of Google you keep looking at ...