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dog-sit

dog-sit is the alternative form of dogsit.

Meaning of dogsit

Verb

dogsit (third-person singular simple present dogsits, present participle dogsitting, simple past and past participle dogsat or (uncommon) dogsitted)

  1. To babysit for (take care of) a dog in its owner's absence.
    • Our new neighbor down the street asked me to ask you if you want to dogsit for her when she is on vacation?2003, Julia DeVillers, True teamwork

Forms of dog-sit

third-person singular presentdog-sits
present participledog-sitting
past participledog-sat
pastdog-sat

Questions about dog-sit

What is dog-sit the alternative form of?
Dog-sit is the alternative form of dogsit.

Words near dog-sit in the dictionary

  1. dog-sat
  2. dog-shot
  3. dog-shots
  4. dog-shotted
  5. dog-shotting
  6. dog-sit
  7. dog-sits
  8. dog-sitting
  9. dog-sleep
  10. dog-slow
  11. dog-stone

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dog-sit (page history and authors); dogsit (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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