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dogging around

dogging around is the present participle and gerund of dog around.

Meaning of dog around

Verb

dog around (third-person singular simple present dogs around, present participle dogging around, simple past and past participle dogged around)

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To follow diligently.
  2. (US, idiomatic, slang, transitive) To treat wrongly, especially in a romantic relationship; to insult or nag.

Questions about dogging around

What is dogging around the present participle and gerund of?
Dogging around is the present participle and gerund of dog around.

Words near dogging around in the dictionary

  1. doggiestyle
  2. doggily
  3. doggin'
  4. dogginess
  5. dogging
  6. dogging around
  7. dogging it
  8. dogging out
  9. doggings
  10. doggirl
  11. doggish

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dogging around (page history and authors); dog around (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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