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 Do’gares’sa (g = j).Doge (1 syl., g = j). 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Dogberry.
 
An ignorant, self-satis fied, overbearing, but good - nature night-constable in Shakespeare’s Muct Ado about Nothing.   1
 


 Do’gares’sa (g = j).Doge (1 syl., g = j). 

 
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