▪ I. dogging, n.2 Brit. slang.
Brit. /ˈdɒgɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈdɔgɪŋ/, /ˈdɑgɪŋ/
[Probably <dog v. (compare sense 1a at that entry) + -ing suffix1; perhaps compare quot. 1972 bird-dogging n. Compare earlier dogger n.5, dogging n.1]
The practice of watching or engaging in exhibitionist sexual activity in a public place, typically a car park, esp. as part of a gathering arranged for this purpose.
| 1986 Sex Maniac's Diary 1987 58 Ravers wanting instantaneous action..can find comrades in the traditional dogging haunts of Great Britain. 1993 J. Green It: Sex since Sixties 75 Then there's dogging; it goes on in carparks. People drive up in their car and watch other people screwing. 2003 Observer 10 Aug. i. 15/6 A recent survey of 260 country parks found that 60 per cent had recorded an increase in ‘dogging’ and other outdoor sexual activity. 2004 Evening Standard (West End Final ed.) 5 Mar. 84/4 [He] admitted that he visited ‘dogging’ sites to have sex with strangers. 2007 Sun (Nexis) 27 Jan. My husband is into swinging, dogging, sex with strangers—you name it, he wants it. |
▪ II. dogging, vbl. n.
(ˈdɒgɪŋ)
[f. dog v. + -ing1.]
The action of dog v.; spec. (a) grouse-shooting using dogs to rouse the birds, as distinguished from ‘driving’; (b) Austral., the hunting of dingoes. Also attrib.
| 1611 Cotgr., Espies, ambushes, waylayings..treacherous dogging, of people. 1688 R. L'Estrange Brief Hist. Times ii. A vj b, The Dogging of a Plot out at Length. 1886 Walsingham & Payne-Gallwey Shooting i. 8 Wet weather is always bad for ‘dogging’. 1894 Times 25 Aug. 3/1 Mr. Stuart-Wortley..holds the balance evenly between ‘dogging’ and driving. 1904 Westm. Gaz. 19 Aug. 4/2 On the ‘dogging’ moors..the actual shooting will begin as soon as it becomes legal. 1928 Daily Tel. 26 June 13/5 The shooting extends to 16,000 acres and is an excellent dogging moor. 1934 A. Russell Tramp-Royal in Wild Australia iv. 37 Tuck had told me what he had made on his dogging expeditions. 1935 H. H. Finlayson Red Centre xiv. 142 More profitable is ‘dogging’. |