Dogged
Pronunciation
- RP: IPA: /dÉ’É¡d/
- US: enPR: dägd, IPA: /dɑɡd/
Origin 1
From the verb to dog.
Verb
doggeddogged
(past of dog)- 1903, Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh:At night proctors patrolled the street and dogged your steps if you tried to go into any haunt where the presence of vice was suspected.
Pronunciation
- RP: enPR: dÅg'Äd, IPA: /ˈdɒɡɪd/
- US: enPR: däg'Äd, IPA: /ˈdɑɡɪd/
Origin 2
From Middle English, characteristics similar to that of a dog.
Full definition of dogged
Adjective
dogged
- Stubbornly persevering, steadfast.
- 1900, Jack London, The Son of the Wolf:Still, the dogged obstinacy of his race held him to the pace he had set, and would hold him till he dropped in his tracks.
- 2004, Chris Wallace (journalist), Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage:It had taken nine years from the evening that Truman first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.