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Doggedly

Definition: Doggedly

Doggedly

Adverb

1. With obstinate determination; "he pursued her doggedly".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "doggedly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)


Synonym: Doggedly

Synonym: tenaciously (adv). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Doggedly

English words defined with "doggedly": keep one's nose to the grindstone, keep one's shoulder to the wheelpeg away, plug awayslog. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Doggedly

"Doggedly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Doggedly" is used about 128 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adverb (general)100%12828,261

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Doggedly

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

doggedly

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Doggedly

Language Translations for "doggedly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Czech

  

zarputile, tvrdošíjnì. (various references)

   

German

  

verbissene. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kitartóan (assiduously, hard, to peg away at sg). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oggedlyday

   

Thai

  

อย่างà¸"ื้อรั้น (obdurately). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Doggedly

Misspellings

"Doggedly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: diggety, doggel, doggrdly, Dolgelly, dooggedly. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Doggedly"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "doggedly" (pronounced dô"gudlē)
5-g u d l ēruggedly.
4-u d l ēacidly, admittedly, advisedly, allegedly, assertedly, assuredly, avidly, avowedly, belatedly, candidly, contentedly, decidedly, deservedly, determinedly, evenhandedly, excitedly, guardedly, heatedly, markedly, placidly, pointedly, purportedly, rapidly, repeatedly, reportedly, reputedly, rigidly, solidly, splendidly, stupidly, supposedly, timidly, unabashedly, unashamedly, undoubtedly, unexpectedly, unprecedentedly, validly, vividly, wholeheartedly, wickedly, wretchedly.
3-d l ēabsurdly, awkwardly, badly, baldly, blandly, blindly, boldly, broadly, coldly, cowardly, crudely, cuddly, dastardly, deadly, Diddley, downwardly, fondly, friendly, gladly, godly, goodly, grandly, haphazardly, hardly, hurriedly, idly, inwardly, kindly, loudly, madly, medley, mildly, niggardly, oddly, otherworldly, outwardly, profoundly, proudly, Ridley, roundly, rudely, sadly, secondly, shrewdly, soundly, straightforwardly, thirdly, unfriendly, ungodly, upwardly, weirdly, widely, wildly, worldly.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Doggedly

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-d-e-g-g-l-o-y"

-2 letters: dogged, dogleg, lodged, logged, yodled.

-3 letters: dodge, dodgy, dogey, doggy, doled, godly, ledgy, leggy, lodge, loggy, oddly, odyle, ogled, yodel, yodle.

-4 letters: doge, dogy, dole, dyed, eddo, eddy, edgy, eggy, geld, gled, gleg, gley, gold, lode, loge, logy, odyl, ogle, oldy, yegg, yeld.

-5 letters: del, dey, doe, dog, dol, dye, egg, ego, eld, ged.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Doggedly


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 6F 67 67 65 64 6C 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-..    ---    --.    --.    .    -..    .-..    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01101111 01100111 01100111 01100101 01100100 01101100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#111 &#103 &#103 &#101 &#100 &#108 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 006F 0067 0067 0065 0064 006C 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3881737371707891

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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