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dogwhipping

dogwhipping is the present participle and gerund of dogwhip.

Meaning of dogwhip

Verb

dogwhip (third-person singular simple present dogwhips, present participle dogwhipping, simple past and past participle dogwhipped)

  1. (rare, transitive) To beat with a dogwhip.
    • The officers cursed and dogwhipped their way through to fall into a ragged line before Raj where he waited with the signallers and Battalion standard; the companies fell in to the shouted commands of their NCOs […]2013, David Drake, S. M. Stirling, Hope Reborn

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Questions about dogwhipping

What is dogwhipping the present participle and gerund of?
Dogwhipping is the present participle and gerund of dogwhip.

Words near dogwhipping in the dictionary

  1. dogweed
  2. dogwhelk
  3. dogwhelks
  4. dogwhip
  5. dogwhipped
  6. dogwhipping
  7. dogwhips
  8. dogwhistle
  9. dogwhistles
  10. dogwise
  11. dogwood

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dogwhipping (page history and authors); dogwhip (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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