doge

noun

1. (historical)The 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.”

   “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.”

   “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.”

2. (Internet, alt-of, deliberate, humorous, misspelling)Deliberate misspelling of doggy.
3. (Internet, humorous)Specifically, 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).”

4. (alt-of, historical)Alternative letter-case form of doge (“ruler of Venice or Genoa”).
5. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal)Clipping of Dogecoin (“a unit of the cyptocurrency”).

verb

1. (alt-of)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.”

2. (transitive)To 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.”

   ““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.””

   “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.””

name

1. (alt-of)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.”

2. (US, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of Department of Government Efficiency.

   “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.”

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

   “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.”