Thursday, February 12, 2015

Word of the Day

doggo
 \ DAW-goh, DOG-oh \, adverb;  
1.
Informal . in concealment; out of sight.

Quotes:
Others have walked 20 or 30 miles to freedom, lying doggo  by day, bluffing past challenges at night.
-- Alan Moorehead, "Desert Tank Fighting," Life , January 19, 1942

He was lying doggo  in a village about fifteen miles off, waiting to get a fresh gang together.
-- Rudyard Kipling, "Life's Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own People ," 1891

Origin:
Doggo  is thought to come from the word dog , alluding to the light sleep characteristic of that animal. The suffix -o  is used in formation of slang terms. Doggo  entered English in the late 1800s.

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