doggo

doggo

1. Hidden or in hiding. Often used in the phrase "lie doggo." Primarily heard in UK. I was looking for something else when I finally found my keys lying doggo behind some boxes on the shelf.
2. slang A dog or puppy. This word is commonly used in memes. What a cute doggo!

lie doggo

To be unseen. I couldn't find that picture because it had been lying doggo behind some boxes.
See also: doggo, lie
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

lie doggo

Fig. to remain unrecognized (for a long time). This problem has lain doggo since 1967. If you don't find the typos now, they will lie doggo until the next edition.
See also: doggo, lie
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

lie doggo

remain motionless or quiet. British
Lie doggo is of uncertain origin, but probably arose from a dog's habit of lying motionless or apparently asleep but nonetheless alert.
See also: doggo, lie
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

lie ˈdoggo

(old-fashioned, informal) be very still or hide somewhere so that you will not be found: I lay doggo in the yard while the police searched the house for me.
See also: doggo, lie
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

doggo

(ˈdɔgo)
mod. hidden away; quiet and waiting. (see also lie doggo.) This error was there, doggo, for nearly thirty years.

lie doggo

(ˈlɑɪ ˈdɔgo)
in. to remain unrecognized (for a long time). (see also doggo. Old, but Standard English.) If you don’t find the typos now, they will lie doggo until the next edition.
See also: doggo, lie
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • (one's) best foot forward
  • Battle Ends And Down Goes Charles' Father
  • Charles
  • Father Charles Goes Down And Ends Battle
  • (as) sure as eggs (is eggs)
  • 57
  • and how
  • pull a U-ie
  • hang a U-ie
  • Uey
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In his second premiere, nodrog doggo, seven males with lights attached to their hands resembled a wedge of motorcyclists on a nighttime foray.
No self-pity, no "poor little me"-just a starkly honest account of how he climbed up all the ladders from non-racing son of a steel-fixer to become apprentice champion and then, with the world lying doggo at his feet, he proceeded to slide headlong down every available snake.
William Marx, examining Mon Faust (yet another Ebauche!), explains why Valery who famously detested fiction was happy to choose dialogue form since for him 'drama is not subject to the same criticisms as the novel, as dramatic speech may become a truly autonomous act rather than a mere imitation of reality.' He does however omit to point out that the echo 'pire' depends on the final syllable of 'expire' - and, surely, the last words of Chanson part mean 'lie doggo' not 'to be dead'.
or the five black hens playing doggo? Will she remember squatting on the grass to pee?
You could sing like Chaliapin you could fight like Alexander Nevsky but you might as well lie doggo and just pray for snow like Sergei Mikhailovich in Alma Alta.
A Colonial Office clerk minuted, "The outlook is an anxious one for Hong Kong but our best chance of saving the New Territories is to lie doggo and assume that the lease will run its normal course (another 70 years)."(4) In 1929, the Foreign Office sought the views of Sir Miles Lampson, British Minister in Beijing, on whether the Chinese government would accept a package of Weihaiwei, money, and certain disputed tracts of land on the Burmese border in return for cession of the New Territories.
They may lie doggo for years but inevitably, they resurface to plague and confuse mankind.
If anyone deserved a proper farewell, at least a boop on the nose, it was this good doggo, and Jon just walked away.
The new line includes three Big Doggo Faux Fur Throws with odor control and a calming pack in Grey Wolf, Tawny Fox, and Ivory Llama in both medium and large sizes.
One Toronto Pride supporter wrote, "Doggo gots #PRIDE @PrideToronto."
With its latest achievement, the SpotMini doggo adds to its list of abilities which include - handlingobjects, climbingstairs, and operating in offices, homes and outdoors.
She lay doggo for a bit and when I was in the bathroom left the house.
x Daughter Ann, soninlaw Adam, granddaughter Ruth, brother Bob and doggo George B.
And because they have been lying doggo in their pools, they have recovered their strength and fight like veritable demons.
For instance: "...I turned my head slightly and took a sly dekko through the glasses..." "...I asked, biting a wodge off my salami baguette..." "...I lay doggo on the other side of the privet shield." Using such colorful language, Newman is adept at stringing out the clues and revelations while maintaining a constant sense of forward motion.