Middle English Dictionary Entry
dogged adj. & adv.
Entry Info
| Forms | dogged adj. & adv. Also dog(g)et. |
| Etymology | From dogge . |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Dog-like or currish in some respect:vicious, mean, surly, malicious, fierce; (b) adv. doggedly, viciously.
Associated quotations
a
- c1300 SLeg.Inf.Chr.(LdMisc 108)1228 : So is folun and doget þat ilke luytel Jesuet..ich i-leue..þat he habbe a wei i-bore..mine cloþus.
- ?c1335 Whose þenchiþ vp (Hrl 913)p.136 : Þe fals wolf stode behind, He was doggid and ek felle.
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)4028 : Yf Bialacoil be sweete and free, Dogged and fell thou shuldist be, Froward and outrageous.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)125 : Doggyd: Caninus. Doggyde, malycyowse: Maliciosus, perversus, bilosus.
- a1450 Gener.(1) (Mrg M 876)3376 : A proude Knight, Dogged and fel, For he was doughty, war, and strong.
- c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)10379 : How found þou þat filthe in þi fals wille, Of so dogget a dede in þi derf hert?
b
- a1400 Cursor (Frf 14)23142 : Þat man riȝt now his life..ledis squa dogged in þaire wikked dedis.