Doggy vs Dogged - What's the difference?
doggy | dogged |
(childish, or, endearing) A dog, especially a small one.
doggy style
Suggesting of, or in the manner of a dog.
(dog)
* 1903 , , The Way of All Flesh :
stubbornly persevering, steadfast
* 1900 , , The Son of the Wolf :
* 2004 , , Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage :
As adjectives the difference between doggy and dogged
is that doggy is suggesting of, or in the manner of a dog while dogged is stubbornly persevering, steadfast.As a noun doggy
is (childish|or|endearing) a dog, especially a small one.As a verb dogged is
(dog).doggy
English
Alternative forms
* doggieNoun
(doggies)- That's such a cute little doggy , Keira!
- Her favourite position is doggy .
Synonyms
* (small dog) pup, puppy, puppy dog, pooch, poochieSee also
* dogieAdjective
(er)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.
