Wiktionary http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Main_Page MediaWiki 1.16alpha-wmf case-sensitive Media Special Talk User User talk Wiktionary Wiktionary talk File File talk MediaWiki MediaWiki talk Template Template talk Help Help talk Category Category talk Appendix Appendix talk Concordance Concordance talk Index Index talk Rhymes Rhymes talk Transwiki Transwiki talk Wikisaurus Wikisaurus talk WT WT talk Citations Citations talk 7616 6157596 2009-02-24T03:25:46Z Vahagn Petrosyan 75989 Reverted edits by [[Special:Contributions/67.188.161.72|67.188.161.72]] ([[User_talk:67.188.161.72|Talk]]); changed back to last version by [[User:DCDuring|DCDuring]] ==English== ===Etymology 1=== From the verb ''to [[dog]]''. ====Pronunciation==== * {{a|RP}}: {{IPA|/dɒgd/}}, {{SAMPA|/dQgd/}} * {{a|US}}: {{enPR|dägd}}, {{IPA|/dɑgd/}}, {{SAMPA|/dAgd/}} ====Verb==== '''dogged''' # {{past of|[[dog]]}} #* '''1903:''' [[w:Samuel Butler|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. ===Etymology 2=== From {{etyl|enm}}, characteristics similar to that of a ''[[dog]]''. ====Pronunciation==== * {{a|RP}}: {{enPR|dŏg'ĭd}}, {{IPA|/ˈdɒgɪd/}}, {{SAMPA|/"dQgId/}} * {{a|US}}: {{enPR|däg'ĭd}}, {{IPA|/ˈdɑgɪd/}}, {{SAMPA|/"dAgId/}} ====Adjective==== {{en-adj}} # Stubbornly persevering, [[steadfast]]. #* '''1900:''' [[w:Jack London|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:''' [[w: Chris Wallace (journalist)|Chris Wallace]], ''Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage'' #*: It had taken nine years from the evening that [[w:Harry Truman|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. =====Synonyms===== * [[committed]] * [[determined]] * [[persistent]] * [[steadfast]] * See also [[Wikisaurus:obstinate]] =====Derived terms===== * [[doggedly]] {{pos_adv}} * [[doggedness]] {{pos_n}} =====Translations===== {{trans-top|stubbornly persevering, steadfast}} * Finnish: [[sinnikäs]], [[hellittämätön]], [[peräänantamaton]] {{trans-mid}} {{trans-bottom}} [[Category:English heteronyms]] [[bg:dogged]] [[fr:dogged]] [[io:dogged]] [[hu:dogged]] [[pt:dogged]] [[te:dogged]] [[vi:dogged]] [[zh:dogged]]