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dog-earing

dog-earing is the present participle and gerund of dog-ear.

Meaning of dog-ear

Verb

dog-ear (third-person singular simple present dog-ears, present participle dog-earing, simple past and past participle dog-eared)

  1. (transitive) To fold (the corner of the page of a book or other publication).
    • His eyes went to his book and stayed there long enough to finish a paragraph. He dog-eared it and put it down.1955 October 19, Rex Stout, Die Like a Dog, Three Witnesses, 94 Bantam, →ISBN, page 164

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Questions about dog-earing

What is dog-earing the present participle and gerund of?
Dog-earing is the present participle and gerund of dog-ear.

Words near dog-earing in the dictionary

  1. dog-day cicadas
  2. dog-doo
  3. dog-ear
  4. dog-eared
  5. dog-earedness
  6. dog-earing
  7. dog-ears
  8. dog-eat-dog
  9. dog-egg
  10. dog-end
  11. dog-ends

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dog-earing (page history and authors); dog-ear (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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