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dogsbodying

dogsbodying is the present participle and gerund of dogsbody.

Meaning of dogsbody

Verb

dogsbody (third-person singular simple present dogsbodies, present participle dogsbodying, simple past and past participle dogsbodied)

  1. To act as a dogsbody, to do menial work
    • Perhaps because, having been brought up in all those different countries and languages, and then studying economics of all things for just a year, followed by four years dogsbodying for a haulage company, he had never got any serious reading done.1989, Tim Parks, Family Planning

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Questions about dogsbodying

What is dogsbodying the present participle and gerund of?
Dogsbodying is the present participle and gerund of dogsbody.

Words near dogsbodying in the dictionary

  1. dogsbane
  2. dogsbanes
  3. dogsbodied
  4. dogsbodies
  5. dogsbody
  6. dogsbodying
  7. dogsbreath
  8. dogsbreaths
  9. dogshank
  10. dogshanks
  11. dogship

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dogsbodying (page history and authors); dogsbody (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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