dogging
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈdɔɡɪŋ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈdɒɡɪŋ/
- (Canada, cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /ˈdɑɡɪŋ/
- Rhymes: -ɒɡɪŋ
Noun
dogging (plural doggings)
- 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 […]
- 1844, George Lillie Craik, Charles MacFarlane, The Pictorial History of England (page 598)
- (Britain) The practice of having sexual intercourse in public places, especially parks, deliberately taking the chance of being watched.
- 2016, Alan Moore, Jerusalem, Liveright, p. 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 […].
- 2016, Alan Moore, Jerusalem, Liveright, p. 21:
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