Dogged
adj, adv, verb, slang ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 simple past and past participle of dog form-of, participle, past
"At night proctors patrolled the street and dogged your steps if you tried to go into any haunt where the presence of vice was suspected."
- 1 stubbornly persevering, steadfast
"Still, the dogged obstinacy of his race held him to the pace he had set, and would hold him till he dropped in his tracks."
- 1 stubbornly unyielding wordnet
- 1 very dated, not-comparable, slang
""I'm afraid I've given him a heap of trouble. You see," he explained, looking at Paul critically, "I never thought of eating before I left town, and one gets so dogged hungry, you know walking. I say it is a long tramp, isn't it?""
Example
More examples"Misfortune dogged him all his life."
Etymology
From the verb to dog.
From Middle English dogged, doggid, doggyd (“characteristics similar to that of a dog”), equivalent to dog + -ed.
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