dogging
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English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈdɔɡɪŋ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈdɒɡɪŋ/
- (Canada, cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /ˈdɑɡɪŋ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɒɡɪŋ
Noun
dogging (countable and uncountable, plural doggings)
- The act of one who dogs or harasses.
- 1844, George Lillie Craik, Charles MacFarlane, The Pictorial History of England, page 598:
- […] free from the doggings of the common informer, but under the superintendence of the bishop […]
- (UK, uncountable) The practice of having sexual intercourse in public places, especially parks, deliberately taking the chance of being watched.
- 2016, Alan Moore, Jerusalem, Liveright, page 21:
- 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 […].
Related terms
Verb
dogging
- present participle and gerund of dog
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from English dogging.
Noun
dogging c
- dogging (sexual practice)
Declension
| Declension of dogging | ||||
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| Uncountable | ||||
| Indefinite | Definite | |||
| Nominative | dogging | doggingen | — | — |
| Genitive | doggings | doggingens | — | — |