bedog

Definitions

To follow like a dog, harass, torment; bully.

transitive

Examples

“That envy, malice, and hatred bedogged his steps, snarling and snapping, is true, but neither his power nor popularity had declined, nor did he think⟳ so.”

“Bedogging this poor singer, that bebitching, Uniting too a host⟳ of damning “Pshas,” And reaped a plenteous harvest⟳ of applause; …”

“But the girls at high school had always called him the "little shrimp" (which he had been), and this still bedogged him.”

“… to discover⟳ they have⟳ bedogged us and were there, at our backs, all along. When catching hold⟳ of us again, which is really our re-registering of their vigilance, these contrarians are up and at the bullying they excel in.”

“Just as Scottie has a haunted quality, Kaufman's Joel Barish is bedogged by the past as well.”

“So they went to sleep⟳ like⟳ a pair of chain gangers, and bedogged if during the night Rose didn't get⟳ up and start⟳ for the bathroom, and down she went.”

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