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bedog

bedog verb: to follow like a dog, harass, torment; bully.

Verb

bedog (third-person singular simple present bedogs, present participle bedogging, simple past and past participle bedogged)

  1. (transitive) To follow like a dog, harass, torment; bully.
    • That envy, malice, and hatred bedogged his steps, snarling and snapping, is true, but neither his power nor popularity had declined, nor did he think so.1878, EDWARD JOHN TRELAWNY, RECORDS OF SHELLEY, BYRON, AND THE AUTHOR
    • Bedogging this poor singer, that bebitching, Uniting too a host of damning “Pshas,” And reaped a plenteous harvest of applause; …1892, The Humourist

Examples of bedog in a sentence

  • But the girls at high school had always called him the "little shrimp" (which he had been), and this still bedogged him.1998, Rollo May, Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence:
  • … to discover they have bedogged us and were there, at our backs, all along.2007, Chi-thinking: Chiasmus and Cognition
  • Just as Scottie has a haunted quality, Kaufman's Joel Barish is bedogged by the past as well.2010, Doreen Alexander Child, Charlie Kaufman: Confessions of an Original Mind:
  • So they went to sleep like a pair of chain gangers, and bedogged if during the night Rose didn't get up and start for the bathroom, and down she went.2015, H Allen Smith, Lost in the Horse Latitudes:

Forms of bedog

third-person singular presentbedogs
present participlebedogging
past participlebedogged
pastbedogged

Origin of bedog

From be- + dog.

Words formed from bedog

Questions about bedog

What does bedog mean?
Bedog means to follow like a dog, harass, torment; bully.
How do you use bedog in a sentence?
But the girls at high school had always called him the "little shrimp" (which he had been), and this still bedogged him.
What part of speech is bedog?
Bedog is a verb.
What is the past tense of bedog?
The past tense of bedog is bedogged.

Words near bedog in the dictionary

  1. bedoctor
  2. bedoctored
  3. bedoctoring
  4. bedoctors
  5. bedoes
  6. bedog
  7. bedogged
  8. bedogging
  9. bedogs
  10. bedoing
  11. Bedok

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