dogged

English

Etymology 1

From the verb to dog.

Pronunciation

• (RP): IPA: /dɒɡd/, X-SAMPA: /dQgd/
• (US): enPR: dägd, IPA: /dɑɡd/, X-SAMPA: /dAgd/

Verb

dogged

1. simple past tense and past participle 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.

Etymology 2

From Middle English, characteristics similar to that of a dog.

Pronunciation

• (RP): enPR: dŏg'ĭd, IPA: /ˈdɒɡɪd/, X-SAMPA: /"dQgId/
• (US): enPR: däg'ĭd, IPA: /ˈdɑɡɪd/, X-SAMPA: /"dAgId/

Adjective

dogged (comparative more dogged, superlative most dogged)

1. 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, 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.

Synonyms

• committed
• determined
• persistent
• steadfast
• See also Wikisaurus:obstinate

Derived terms

• doggedly adv
• doggedness n

Translations

stubbornly persevering, steadfast

• Bulgarian: твърдоглав (bg) (tvǎrdoglav)
• Dutch: hardnekkig (nl)
• Finnish: sinnikäs (fi), hellittämätön (fi), peräänantamaton (fi)
• German: hartknäckig (de)

• Italian: tenace (it)
• Scottish Gaelic: leanailteach (gd)
• Spanish: aperrado (Chile) (es)