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English
Etymology
From dog + food.
Pronunciation
Verb
dogfood (third-person singular simple present dogfoods, present participle dogfooding, simple past and past participle dogfooded)
- (transitive, computing, slang) To eat one's own dog food, to use products developed by oneself or by one’s own company as end users.
2012, Sam Guckenheimer, Neno Loje, Agile Software Engineering with Visual Studio: From Concept to Continuous Feedback, Addison-Wesley Professional, →ISBN, page 259:We're dog-fooding that release now, in three-weekly sprints.
Noun
dogfood (countable and uncountable, plural dogfoods)
- (US) Alternative spelling of dog food