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dogged, a. (adv.)|ˈdɒgɪd|
Also 5 dogget, doggid, doggyd(e, 6 Sc. doggit.
[f. dog n.1 + -ed2: cf. crabbed, which appears to be of about the same age.]
A. adj.
1. gen.
a. Like a dog; having the character, or some characteristic, of a dog.
b. Of or pertaining to a dog or dogs, canine. † dogged appetite, hunger: = canine appetite, bulimy (obs.). (Now rare in gen. sense.)
c1440Promp. Parv. 125/2 Doggyd, caninus. 1589Pasquil's Ret. 12 This dogged generation, that is euer barking against the Moone. 1595Shakes. John iv. iii. 149 Now for the bare-pickt bone of Maiesty, Doth dogged warre bristle his angry crest, And snarleth in the gentle eyes of peace. 1608Hieron 2nd Pt. Def. Reas. Refus. Subscript. 121 That hunger which Phisitions cal the dogged appetite. 1658J. Jones Ovid's Ibis 594 Dianas guard the Tragic poet slew, So be thou torn by a watchful dogged crew. 1740Pineda Sp. Dict. s.v. R, This Letter..They call..dogged, because it sounds like the Noise a Dog makes when he growls.
2. Having the bad qualities of a dog; currish.
†a. Ill-conditioned, malicious, crabbed, spiteful, perverse; cruel. (Of persons, their actions, etc.) Obs.
a1307Pol. Songs (Camden) 199 The fals wolf stode behind; He was doggid and ek felle. c1400Destr. Troy 10379 Of so dogget a dede. c1440Promp. Parv. 125/2 Doggyde, malycyowse, maliciosus, perversus, bilosus. 1540Morysine Vives' Introd. Wysd. H viij b, It is a token of a dogged harte, to rejoyce in an other mans mysfortune. 1663Butler Hud. i. i. 632 Fortune unto them turn'd dogged. For they a sad Adventure met. 1684Roxb. Ball. (1895) VIII. 40 This dogged answer cut this poor soul to the heart.
†b. transf. Of things: Awkward, ‘crabbed’, difficult to deal with. Obs.
1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 66 The most craggie, steepe, and dogged Hils in Persia. 1677A. Yarranton Eng. Improv. 147 The Spanish [Iron] works tough, churlish and dogged.
c. Ill-tempered, surly; sullen, morose. Now with some mixture of sense 3: Having an air of sullen obstinacy.
c1400Rom. Rose 4028 If Bialacoil be sweete and free, Dogged and felle thou shuldist be. 1593Nashe Christ's T. 55 There is vaine-glory in..being Diogenicall and dogged. 1667Pepys Diary (1879) IV. 424 My wife in a dogged humour for my not dining at home. 1757J. Rutty Diary 5 Feb. in Boswell Johnson, Very dogged or snappish. 1852Mrs. Stowe Uncle Tom's C. xli, Legree..looked in with a dogged air of affected carelessness, and turned away.
3. Having the persistency or tenacity characteristic of various breeds of dogs; obstinate, stubborn; pertinacious. (The current use.) Esp. in colloq. phr. it's dogged as does it: persistency and tenacity win in the end.
1779Johnson 1 Apr. in Boswell, [He commended one of the Dukes of Devonshire for] ‘a dogged veracity’. 1818Scott Rob Roy xxx, An air of stupid impenetrability, which might arise either from conscious innocence or from dogged resolution. 1855Prescott Philip II, I. ii. viii. 229 The dogged tenacity with which he clung to his purposes. 1863Kingsley Water Bab. vii. (1878) 323 He was such a little dogged, hard, gnarly, foursquare brick of an English boy. 1864M. B. Chesnut Diary 6 Aug. (1949) 429 ‘It's dogged as does it,’ says Isabella. 1867Trollope Chron. Barset lxi, There ain't nowt a man can't bear if he'll only be dogged... It's dogged as does it. 1874Blackie Self-Cult. 20 In this domain nothing is denied to a dogged pertinacity. 1896Daily News 27 June 8/1 All his own writing seems to have been done in about three hours a day. ‘It's dogged as does it,’ he has been wont to explain. 1942N. Marsh Death & Dancing Footman x. 195 ‘If we stick..they can damn' well produce a farm animal to lug us out...’ ‘It's dogged as does it,’ said Chloris.
4. Comb., as † dogged-sprighted a., having a ‘dogged’ or malicious spirit (obs.).
1600Rowlands Let. Humours Blood vii. 84 Enuie's the fourth: a Deuill, dogged sprighted.
B. as adv. ‘As a dog’; very, extremely. colloq. or slang. (Cf. dog n.1 19 d.)
1819Sporting Mag. IV. 272 He [a horse] was dogged ‘rusty’ when your man passed our house. 1847–78Halliwell, Dogged, very; excessive. Var. dial. |