dogged
advEtymology From Middle English dogged, doggid, doggyd (“characteristics similar to that of a dog”), equivalent to dog + -ed.
dogged
adjUK /ˈdɒɡɪd/ · US /ˈdɔɡɪd/
Etymology From Middle English dogged, doggid, doggyd (“characteristics similar to that of a dog”), equivalent to dog + -ed.
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stubbornly persevering, steadfast
- 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.1900 April 7, Jack London, “To the Man on Trail”, in The Son of the Wolf: Tales of the Far North, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC, page 114:
- Rushing out to the point above the reef, we watched the conflict between canoe and sea. When the man reached the gas boat, the screams of the boy stopped. With great risk they loaded the canoe till she began to take water. The boy bailed furiously. The long dogged pull of the man's oars challenged death inch by inch, wave by wave.1941, Emily Carr, chapter 18, in Klee Wyck:
2 more examples
- 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.2004, Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage:
- Using the latest technology, and with the dogged determination of our testing and tracing scheme, we've successfully identified the person in question.2021 March 5, Matt Hancock, quotee, “Mystery person with Brazil variant found thanks to dogged determination, says Matt Hancock”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
- Derived terms
- doggedly, doggedness