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dogan

[? < Dogan, an Irish surname]

Slang

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

This entry may contain outdated or offensive information, terms, and examples.

an Irish Roman Catholic.

In older use, often a derogatory term for a low-class Irish Roman Catholic; in present use, any Roman Catholic, and, frequently, any Catholic. The connotation of the term is only mildly offensive in itself, if at all.

Quotations

1854

I would be overly liberal if I estimated their number as a couple of Dogans! [Irish Catholics].

1875

The "Dogans" were taken into favour, and the priests and nuns ceased to be vile and unprincipled.

1924

He was a harsh taskmaster over me, and many a time I got a smart clout on the lug and was told to take that for a dirty little dogan.

1965

. . . he [was] a drunken Orangeman at peace with his "dogan friends". . . .