dogbit
English
Etymology
dog + bit
Adjective
dogbit (not comparable)
- (dialect) Bitten by a dog.
- 1937, Harriet Gift Castlen, That was a Time, page 56:
- Louis say, “I ain't studyin' to git dogbit.”
- 1986, Howard Smead, Blood Justice: The Lynching of Mack Charles Parker, page 146:
- "I got dogbit on Easter Sunday and I took me a club to beat off the dogs, and they (the FBI) took the clubs,” Davis complained. “The FBI has been aggravating people and worrying them to death.”
- 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 65:
- I was settin pins in a bowlin alley in Ardmore Oklahoma and I got dogbit by a bulldog took a chunk out of my leg the size of a Sunday roast.
Noun
dogbit (plural dogbits)
- A bit used on a dog.
- 1892, Park Benjamin, Modern Mechanism, page 772:
- To operate the upper dog, the dogbit is dropped on the log, and is forced downward into the timber by drawing downward upon the long lever.