noun | DOHJ - Doge goon / Doge bro /Doge big balls
verb | DOHJ - I doge / You doge / She doges / They doge
doge – (dohj, dōj or dōzh)
noun
Intentional misspelling of dog: a meme about a Shiba Inu; a cryptocurrency; a ‘government efficiency’ task force.
Where does doge come from?
The earliest known evidence of doge as an intentional misspelling of dog appears in a 2005 episode of the puppet show Homestar Runner when Homestar calls another character “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him; Elon Musk’s fascination with Shiba Inu, a Japanese dog that thinks it’s human; manipulating the name of a government department (DOGE) to sound like a Bitcoin.
Meaning
noun | entitled, nosy, arrogant.
verb | prying into someone else’s business uninvited.
Examples of use of doge (noun).
Q. What did the doge goon install in his Tesla to impress all his doge friends?
A. A subwoofer!
Q. How do the doge bros get paid?
A. By the pound.
Q. How did the doge big balls get from Palo Alto to D.C.?
A. By Greyhound.
Q. Why did the poor doge goon chase his own tail?
A. He was trying to make both ends meet!
More examples...
Q What do you call a wild doge bro that meditates?
A. Aware wolf.
Q. Why did the doge bro stay out of the sun?
A. So he wouldn’t be a hot doge.
doge/doging (dohj, dohjing)
intransitive verb
The act of pushing into someone else’s business uninvited; sleeping on the floor; brown-nosing your boss; driving a Cybertruck.
Where does doge/doging come from?
A 2025 phenomenon involving teenagers and masturbatory twentysomethings with limited education and experience given the authority to tell five-star generals, former presidents, cabinet secretaries, academics, and ambassadors how to do their jobs.
Examples of the use of doging (verb).
After a long day of doging useless bureaucrats with mortgages and children out of their jobs, he hung out at the General Services Administration and played video games.
It’s a tough job but someone has to doge.
They’re doging so you don’t have to.
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It’s the Daily Beast’s nominee for Word of the Year.
Doge, a new word invented in Washington D.C., has increased in usage frequency by 295% percent between 2024 and 2025. Formerly restricted in common usage to the seven people in the United States who understand Blockchain, it is now used to describe a certain type of obnoxious person, aged 19-29. With few social graces, an unreasonable level of interest in the financial status of strangers, and zero interest in consequences.
Last year’s Oxford University Press choice word of the year: “Brain Rot,” beating out hot contenders “demure,” “slop,” “dynamic pricing,” “romantasy,” and “lore”.
The previous year it was “rizz”, short for charisma.
Does the president have rizz? Some people seem to think so. The jury’s out on Elon Musk.
As for brain rot? Well…
The Collins Dictionary went for “brat”, defined as “characterized by a confident, independent and hedonistic attitude.”
“Gaslighting” was the 2022 pick for the Merriam-Webster.
Maybe “sack of s----” could be a contender for Phrase of the Year. It’s a big favorite of White House Communications Director Steven Cheung.
“You’ve been doged,” is another contender.
Vote for doge for Word of the Year.
Or risk being doged.
