bedog

English

Etymology

From be- +‎ dog.

Verb

bedog (third-person singular simple present bedogg, present participle ing, simple past and past participle bedoged)

1. (transitive) to refer to or treat like a dog; (by extension) to follow like a dog, harass, torment; bully
   • 1892, The Humourist:

     Bedogging this poor singer, that bebitching, Uniting too a host of damning “Pshas,” And reaped a plenteous harvest of applause; [...]

   • 1998, Rollo May, Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence:

     But the girls at high school had always called him the "little shrimp" (which he had been), and this still bedogged him.

   • 2007, Chi-thinking: Chiasmus and Cognition:

     [...] to discover they have bedogged us and were there, at our backs, all along. When catching hold of us again, which is really our re-registering of their vigilance, these contrarians are up and at the bullying they excel in.

   • 2010, Doreen Alexander Child, Charlie Kaufman: Confessions of an Original Mind:

     Just as Scottie has a haunted quality, Kaufman's Joel Barish is bedogged by the past as well.

2. (transitive, intransitive, now rare) to become or behave as a dog
   • 1878, EDWARD JOHN TRELAWNY, RECORDS OF SHELLEY, BYRON, AND THE AUTHOR:

     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.

   • 2015, H Allen Smith, Lost in the Horse Latitudes:

     So they went to sleep like a pair of chain gangers, and bedogged if during the night Rose didn't get up and start for the bathroom, and down she went.

Derived terms

• bedogged

Anagrams

• 'Bodge, begod, bodge