dogging

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdɔɡɪŋ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdɒɡɪŋ/
• (Canada, cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈdɑɡɪŋ/

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• 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 […].

Related terms

• alpha dogging
• chute dogging
• hog-dogging

 

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
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	dogging	doggingen	—	—
Genitive	doggings	doggingens	—	—

See also

• swinging