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dogging en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈdɑɡɪŋ/ (cot-caught-merger)
  • /ˈdɔɡɪŋ/ (General-American)
  • /ˈdɒɡɪŋ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • (US) audio

Meanings

  1. (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:
  2. (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:
  3. (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:

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Relateds

hog-dogging · alpha dogging · chute dogging

dogging en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /ˈdɑɡɪŋ/ (cot-caught-merger)
  • /ˈdɔɡɪŋ/ (General-American)
  • /ˈdɒɡɪŋ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • (US) audio

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of dog
    form of dog