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bedog

verb

Etymology

From be- + dog.

  1. derived from dox — “dark, swarthy”
  2. inherited from dogga
  3. inherited from dogge
  4. prefixed as bedog — “be + dog”

Definitions

  1. To follow like a dog, harass, torment

    To follow like a dog, harass, torment; bully.

    • That envy, malice, and hatred bedogged his steps, snarling and snapping, is true, but neither his power nor popularity had declined, nor did he think so.
    • Bedogging this poor singer, that bebitching, Uniting too a host of damning “Pshas,” And reaped a plenteous harvest of applause; …
    • But the girls at high school had always called him the "little shrimp" (which he had been), and this still bedogged him.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bedog. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA