Dogged vs Dogger - What's the difference?
dogged | dogger |
(dog)
* 1903 , , The Way of All Flesh :
stubbornly persevering, steadfast
* 1900 , , The Son of the Wolf :
* 2004 , , Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage :
A two-masted fishing vessel, used by the Dutch.
A participant in dogging
A sort of stone, found in the mines with the true alum rock, chiefly of silica and iron.
(Webster 1913)
As a verb dogged
is past tense of dog.As an adjective dogged
is stubbornly persevering, steadfast.As a noun dogger is
a two-masted fishing vessel, used by the Dutch.dogged
English
Etymology 1
From the verb to dog .Verb
(head)- 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), characteristics similar to that of a dog .Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.
- 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.