dogging

English

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈdɔɡɪŋ/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈdɒɡɪŋ/
  • (cotcaught merger) IPA(key): /ˈdɑɡɪŋ/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɒɡɪŋ

Noun

dogging (countable and uncountable, plural doggings)

  1. The act of one who dogs or harasses.
    • 1844, George Lillie Craik, Charles MacFarlane, The Pictorial History of England, page 598:
      [] free from the doggings of the common informer, but under the superintendence of the bishop []
  2. (UK, uncountable) The practice of having sexual intercourse in public places, especially parks, deliberately taking the chance of being watched.
    • 2016, Alan Moore, Jerusalem, Liveright, page 21:
      Even that [] had been less awful than this date-rape opportunity and likely dogging hotspot, with its hasty skim of tarmac spread like cheap, stale caviar across the pink pedestrian tiles beneath […].

Verb

dogging

  1. present participle and gerund of dog

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English dogging.

Noun

dogging c

  1. dogging (sexual practice)

Declension

Declension of dogging
nominative genitive
singular indefinite dogging doggings
definite doggingen doggingens
plural indefinite
definite

See also