doghole
A small, shallow bay or inlet, usually surrounded by high cliffs, that is accessible only by smaller boats.
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#1·Apr 27, 2026
A small, shallow bay or inlet, usually surrounded by high cliffs, that is accessible only by smaller boats.
I am proud to welcome you to my house, though 'tis but a doghole, may it please your Grace, a mere doghole.
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#2·Apr 27, 2026
A type of small schooner designed in the 19th century to navigate in shallow waters and to conduct coastal shipping in and out of doghole ports.
Nice was then no glamorous watering hole but a doghole – 'the most doghole I think that be in world', so Mason wrote to Pate.
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#3·Apr 27, 2026
(idiomatic, derogatory) A place regarded as fit only for dogs: a horrid, mean habitation.
This is the first time I was ever weary of England, and longed to be in Ireland, but it is because go I must; for I do not love Ireland better, nor England, as England, worse; in short, you all live in a wretched, dirty Doghole and Priso…
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