dogbit

A bit used on a dog.

Adjective

  1. Bitten by a dog.
    • Louis say, “I ain't studyin' to git dogbit.” - 1937, Harriet Gift Castlen, That was a Time, page 56:
    • "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.” - 1986, Howard Smead,...
    • 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. - 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 65:

Origin

From dog + bit.

Noun

  1. A bit used on a dog.
    • 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. - 1892, Park Benjamin, Modern Mechanism, page 772:

Forms

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