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dogging en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈdɑɡɪŋ/ (cot-caught-merger)
- /ˈdɔɡɪŋ/ (General-American)
- /ˈdɒɡɪŋ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
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Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) The act of one who dogs or harasses.
[…] free from the doggings of the common informer, but under the superintendence of the bishop […]
1844, George Lillie Craik, Charles MacFarlane, The Pictorial History of England, page 598:
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(UK, uncountable) The practice of having sexual intercourse in public places, especially parks, deliberately taking the chance of being watched.
Even that […] had been less awful than this date-rape opportunity and likely dogging hotspot, with its hasty skim of tarmac spread like cheap, stale caviar across the pink pedestrian tiles beneath […].
2016, Alan Moore, Jerusalem, Liveright, page 21:We do it because we've found / When people crowd around / It is somehow more profound / When you're dogging.
2011, Adele Anderson and Dillie Keane, “Dogging”, performed by Fascinating Aida:
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(Australia, uncountable) The job of killing wild dogs and dingos in a rural area.
‘Has a good plant. Wanders around on his own doing a bit of dogging (dingo-hunting).’
1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 77:
Forms
Relateds
hog-dogging · alpha dogging · chute dogging
dogging en · VERB
Pronunciation
- /ˈdɑɡɪŋ/ (cot-caught-merger)
- /ˈdɔɡɪŋ/ (General-American)
- /ˈdɒɡɪŋ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- (US) audio
Meanings
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(form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of dog