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dogbit en · ADJ

Etymology

From dog + bit.

Meanings

1. (dialectal, not-comparable) Bitten by a dog.
   • "I got dogbit on Easter Sunday and I took me a club to beat off the dogs, and they (the FBI) took the clubs,” Davis complained. “The FBI has been aggravating people and worrying them to death.” 1986, Howard Smead, Blood Justice: The Lynching of Mack Charles Parker, page 146:
   • I was settin pins in a bowlin alley in Ardmore Oklahoma and I got dogbit by a bulldog took a chunk out of my leg the size of a Sunday roast. 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 65:
   • Louis say, “I ain't studyin' to git dogbit.” 1937, Harriet Gift Castlen, That was a Time, page 56:

dogbit en · NOUN

Etymology

From dog + bit.

Meanings

1. A bit used on a dog.
   • To operate the upper dog, the dogbit is dropped on the log, and is forced downward into the timber by drawing downward upon the long lever. 1892, Park Benjamin, Modern Mechanism, page 772:

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