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dogbit

dogbit adjective: bitten by a dog.

Adjective

dogbit (not comparable)

  1. (dialectal) Bitten by a dog.
    • Louis say, “I ain't studyin' to git dogbit.”1937, Harriet Gift Castlen, That was a Time, page 56
    • "I got dogbit on Easter Sunday and I took me a club to beat off the dogs, and they (the FBI) took the clubs,” Davis complained. “The FBI has been aggravating people and worrying them to death.”1986, Howard Smead, Blood Justice: The Lynching of Mack Charles Parker, page 146

Noun

dogbit (plural dogbits)

  1. A bit used on a dog.
    • To operate the upper dog, the dogbit is dropped on the log, and is forced downward into the timber by drawing downward upon the long lever.1892, Park Benjamin, Modern Mechanism, page 772

Forms of dogbit

pluraldogbits

Origin of dogbit

From dog + bit.

Questions about dogbit

What does dogbit mean?
Dogbit means bitten by a dog.
What part of speech is dogbit?
Dogbit can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near dogbit in the dictionary

  1. dogbanes
  2. dogberries
  3. dogberry
  4. dogberryism
  5. dogberryisms
  6. dogbit
  7. dogbits
  8. dogbolt
  9. dogbolts
  10. dogbone
  11. dogbones

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