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dogfooding

dogfooding is the present participle and gerund of dogfood.

Meaning of dogfood

Verb

dogfood (third-person singular simple present dogfoods, present participle dogfooding, simple past and past participle dogfooded)

  1. (slang, transitive) To eat one's own dog food, to use products developed by oneself or by one’s own company as end users.
    • We're dog-fooding that release now, in three-weekly sprints.2012, Sam Guckenheimer, Neno Loje, Agile Software Engineering with Visual Studio: From Concept to Continuous Feedback, Addison-Wesley Professional, →ISBN, page 259

Questions about dogfooding

What is dogfooding the present participle and gerund of?
Dogfooding is the present participle and gerund of dogfood.

Words near dogfooding in the dictionary

  1. dogfluencer
  2. dogfluencers
  3. dogfly
  4. dogfood
  5. dogfooded
  6. dogfooding
  7. dogfoods
  8. dogfought
  9. dogfox
  10. dogfoxes
  11. dogfree

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