name
Meaning 1
Alternative letter-case form of DOGE.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of
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Standard Lemma guide
doge
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /dəʊdʒ/
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UK: /dəʊʒ/
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US: /doʊd͡ʒ/
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US: /doʊʒ/
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rhymes with -əʊdʒ
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rhymes with -əʊʒ
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UK: /ˈdəʊ.dʒeɪ/
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US: /ˈdoʊ.d͡ʒeɪ/
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rhymes with -əʊdʒeɪ
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UK: /dəʊɡ/
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UK, also: /ˈdɒɡ.i/
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UK: /ˈdəʊ.ɡi/
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US: /doʊdʒ/
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US: /doʊɡ/
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US, also: /ˈdɑɡ.i/
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US: /ˈdoʊ.ɡi/
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rhymes with -əʊɡ
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rhymes with -ɒɡi
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rhymes with -əʊɡi
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CMU ARPABET: D OW1 JH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
Acronym of Department of Government Efficiency.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
Topics: government, politics
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noun
Meaning 3
The chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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noun
Meaning 4
Deliberate misspelling of doggy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet, alt-of, deliberate, humorous, misspelling
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noun
Meaning 5
Specifically, a Shiba Inu, as in the doge meme.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet, humorous
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noun
Meaning 6
Alternative letter-case form of doge (“ruler of Venice or Genoa”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, historical
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noun
Meaning 7
Clipping of Dogecoin (“a unit of the cryptocurrency”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal
Topics: business, cryptocurrencies, cryptocurrency, finance
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verb
Meaning 8
Alternative letter-case form of DOGE.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of
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verb
Meaning 9
To fire, scale back or remove in an attempt to improve efficiency.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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noun
Meaning 10
formerly the chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: judge, justice, jurist
History
Etymology
Back-formation from doge as a backronym, an Internet meme, or from dogecoin, a cryptocurrency that Elon Musk has supported.
Partly from Middle French doge and partly from its etymon, Italian doge, from Venetan doxe, from Latin ducem, accusative of dux (“leader; commander; ruler”). Doublet of duc, duce, duke, and dux.
From dog, probably as a sensational spelling of doggy like monke. First attested in the 2005 episode "Biz Cas Fri 1" from Homestar Runner.
See DOGE.
Across languages
Translations
48 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: دُوق (dūq) — chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa
- Arabic: دوج (dōj) — chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa
- Armenian: դոժ (dož) — chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa
- Azerbaijani: doj — chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa
- Belarusian: дож (dož) — chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa
- Bulgarian: дож (dož) — chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa
- Catalan: dux — chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa
- Czech: dóže — chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa
- Danish: doge — chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa
- Dutch: doge — chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa
- Esperanto: doĝo — chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa
- Estonian: doodž — chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa
- Finnish: doge — chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa
- French: doge — chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa
- Friulian: dûs — chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa
- Georgian: დოჟი (doži) — chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa
- German: Doge — chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa
- Greek: δόγης (dógis) — chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa
- Hindi: डोगे (ḍoge) — chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa
- Hungarian: dózse — chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa
- Ido: dojo — chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa
- Irish: dóg — chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa
- Italian: doge — chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa
- Kazakh: дож (doj) — chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa
- Latvian: dodžs — chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa
- Ligurian: dûxe — chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa
- Lombard: dus — chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa
- Macedonian: дужд (dužd) — chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa
- Persian: دوجه — chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa
- Polish: doża — chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa
- Portuguese: doge — chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa
- Romanian: doge — chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa
- Russian: дож (dož) — chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa
- Serbo-Croatian: дужд — chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa
- Serbo-Croatian: dužd — chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa
- Spanish: dux — chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa
- Spanish: dogo — chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa
- Swedish: doge — chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa
- Turkish: doj — chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa
- Ottoman Turkish: دوژ (doj) — chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa
- Ukrainian: дож (dož) — chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa
- Venetan: doxe — chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa
- Zulu: inqola — chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa
- Polish: pieseł — internet slang
- Russian: пёсель (pjóselʹ) — internet slang
- Russian: соба́кен (sobáken) — internet slang
- Turkish: köpke — internet slang
- Ukrainian: доге (dohe) — internet slang