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doggings

doggings is the plural of dogging.

Meaning of dogging

Noun

dogging (countable and uncountable, plural doggings)

  1. The act of one who dogs or harasses.
    • […] free from the doggings of the common informer, but under the superintendence of the bishop […]1844, George Lillie Craik, Charles MacFarlane, The Pictorial History of England, page 598
  2. (UK, uncountable) The practice of having sexual intercourse in public places, especially parks, deliberately taking the chance of being watched.
    • We do it because we've found / When people crowd around / It is somehow more profound / When you're dogging.2011, Adele Anderson and Dillie Keane, “Dogging”, performed by Fascinating Aida
  3. (Australia, uncountable) The job of killing wild dogs and dingos in a rural area.
    • ‘Has a good plant. Wanders around on his own doing a bit of dogging (dingo-hunting).’1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 77

Phrases with doggings

Questions about doggings

What is doggings the plural of?
Doggings is the plural of dogging.

Words near doggings in the dictionary

  1. dogginess
  2. dogging
  3. dogging around
  4. dogging it
  5. dogging out
  6. doggings
  7. doggirl
  8. doggish
  9. doggishly
  10. doggishness
  11. doggitude

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