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Also Inflected form of dog

dogged

dog·ged

UK/ˈdɒɡɪd/ US/ˈdɔɡɪd/ uncommon dated slang

adjective

1.

stubbornly unyielding

  • “dogged persistence”
  • “dour determination”
  • “the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics”
  • “a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it” T.S.Eliot
  • “men tenacious of opinion”

Origin

From Middle English dogged, doggid, doggyd (“characteristics similar to that of a dog”), equivalent to dog + -ed.

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