bedog
verbEtymology From be- + dog.
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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.1878, EDWARD JOHN TRELAWNY, RECORDS OF SHELLEY, BYRON, AND THE AUTHOR:
- Bedogging this poor singer, that bebitching, Uniting too a host of damning “Pshas,” And reaped a plenteous harvest of applause; …1892, The Humourist
4 more examples
- But the girls at high school had always called him the "little shrimp" (which he had been), and this still bedogged him.1998, Rollo May, Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence:
- … 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.2007, Chi-thinking: Chiasmus and Cognition
- Just as Scottie has a haunted quality, Kaufman's Joel Barish is bedogged by the past as well.2010, Doreen Alexander Child, Charlie Kaufman: Confessions of an Original Mind:
- 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.2015, H Allen Smith, Lost in the Horse Latitudes:
- Derived terms
- bedogged