doge

plural doges · plural dogi · alternative Doge

1. historicalThe chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa.

   In the thirteenth century, a new method of appointing the doge, by the famous ballot of Venice, a complicated mixture of choice and chance, was adopted.

   1797, John Adams, A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States, page 62

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   This reply was one of the first important pronouncements to be made by Antonio Grimani, who on 6 July had been elected seventy-fourth Doge of Venice in succession to Leonardo Loredan.

   1982, John Julius Norwich, chapter 34, in A History of Venice, page 346

   The doge and the Venetian Senate might still be the servants (douloi) of the emperor, but nonetheless they were able to fix the price of their naval aid.

   2013, Judith Herrin, “The Collapse of the Byzantine Empire in the Twelfth Century: A Study of a Medieval Economy”, in Margins and Metropolis: Authority Across the Byzantine Empire, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, page 114

plural doges

1. InternetdeliberatehumorousmisspellingDeliberate misspelling of doggy.
2. InternethumorousSpecifically, a Shiba Inu, as in the doge meme.

   Bobsled wasn't the only Dogecoin-backed sporting success. Fans of Nascar will recognise the car driven by Josh Wise, emblazoned, as it is, with the adorable little doge on its bonnet (pictured above).

   2015 July 23, Dave Lee, “Six times Reddit wasn't completely awful”, in BBC, archived from the original on 15 Nov 2015

present singular third person doges · participle present dogeing · participle past doged · past doged

1. Alternative letter-case form of DOGE.

   Since the lab has been "doged," a petition posted to Change.org by Evgeny Stambulchik asked for signatures to oppose the layoff of the NIST Atomic Spectroscopy Group and has garnered 2,500 signatures as of reporting time. There is also a campaign website.

   2025 March 28, Andrea Fox, “Lab critical to medical device development 'DOGEd'”, in Healthcare IT News, archived from the original on 02 Apr 2025

plural Doges

1. historicalAlternative letter-case form of doge (“ruler of Venice or Genoa”).

plural Doges

1. abbreviationclippinginformalbusinessClipping of Dogecoin (“a unit of the cryptocurrency”).

1. Alternative letter-case form of DOGE.

   Two senior USAid security officials were suspended on Sunday for blocking Doge officials from a restricted area, a day after the agency’s website went offline, and Musk posted to X that USAid was “beyond repair” and needed to be shut down.

   2025 February 3, Richard Luscombe, “Marco Rubio appoints himself head of USAid as workers locked out of office”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 04 Apr 2025

alternative Doge

1. USabbreviationacronymgovernmentAcronym of Department of Government Efficiency.First known use 2024–

   The DOGE personnel wanted to gain access to USAID security systems and personnel files, three sources said.

   2025 February 2, Jennifer Hansler and Alex Marquardt, “Senior USAID security officials put on leave after attempting to refuse Musk’s DOGE access to agency systems”, in CNN

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   It is not known how big a budget DOGE will have, how many people it will itself employ, or how much of the American taxpayers’ dollars it will require.

   2024 November 14, Rhian Lubin, “What is DOGE? Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency led by Musk and Ramaswamy”, in The Independent

   DOGE has highlighted how USAID spent millions propping up the Marxist ideology of “diversity, equity, and inclusion;” the unfair and divisive transgender orthodoxy; and the climate alarmist movement.

   2025 February 26, “USAID’s Troubling Ties to the Left’s Dark Money Network”, in Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, page 2

   The book ends with Musk’s DOGE rampage: “Musk was doing to the federal government almost note-for-note what he had done to Twitter.”

   2026 May 28, Rebecca Bratten Weiss, “The minds and money behind MAGA”, in Christian Century, volume 143, number 5, via EBSCOhost, →ISSN, page 86

present singular third person DOGEs · participle present DOGEing · participle past DOGEd · past DOGEd · participle past DOGE'd · past DOGE'd · alternative Doge

1. transitiveTo fire, scale back or remove in an attempt to improve efficiency.

   There was a huge exodus over at the National Archives for snickety librarians were getting DOGEd silly.

   2025 February 20, “CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip”, in CNN, spoken by Jesse Watters

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   “I finally found one person I knew who got DOGE’d, and it hit me in the heart,” said Watters, who urged his Fox colleagues to “be a little bit less callous.”

   2025 March 7, Jonathan Lemire, quoting Jesse Watters, “Is DOGE Losing Steam?”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2025

   Hinojosa called it a DOGEing of the TEA: “It is a zero-based budgeting bill to cut through the nonsense and the bureaucracy and the vendor contracts, and reprioritize that money to what matters – teacher pay, school safety, and closing the special education funding gap.”

   2025 March 28, Brant Bigamon, “DOGEing the Texas Education Agency”, in The Austin Chronicle