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lol!
The joys of incomprehension :)
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dogging it
Yeah I'd think that underperforming would about cover it.
I think you'd have to add deliberately underperforming....because the nuance implies a sports player (for instance) is dogging it out of laziness and/or indifference...not out of a lack of ability. As in "not hustling." i.e If the fastest runner on the team takes his time and gets thrown out, then you'd say "man, he was really doggin' it." BTW, the USn idiom would seem to be dogging it...don't think I've ever heard dogging without the it.
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Am I the only one feeling somewhat anticlima ctic? Mav, I wasted some good time on your poser, I'll have you know!  Nintendo indeed!
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I never realized that 'dogging' something meant one was deliberately underperforming. I'll look it up tomorrow, but now it's late again.
It would be pretty interesting if dogging something really meant what you all are saying it means because hounding someone means quite the opposite: going after someone or something with dogged determination. Very, very interesting. Dog can mean both going at something with determination and going at something with no determination. I just love these linguistic idiosyncrasies.
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>Am I the only one feeling somewhat anticlimatic?
oh, I don't think so (although my post would probably have to be classified as ante-anticlimactic, or in the expectation thereof.. :)
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deliberately underperforming
That's a friendly amendment.
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My uncle told me of a use of "dogging" over a hundred years ago. Down in Belfast,ME, the city let a contract for care of the poor in a separate residence provided by a farmer.
One of the residents on the "poor farm" had a daughter who got pregnant without benefit of clergy. When the girl's father tried to arrange a "shotgun wedding" but did not own a shotgun, he was told:"Keep your bitches to home when they are dogging."
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BTW, dogging it also takes the form dog it in certain instances. i.e:
Don't dog it like that!
He dogs it all the time.
He can really dog it when he wants to.
And I've heard and used it many a time in referring to a day, for instance, when I'm feeling particularly lackadaisical and indifferent towards work:
I think I'll just dog it today.
(which could actually take another meaning of "just going through the motions" in this variation)
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"Am I the only one feeling somewhat anticlimatic? "
Was a "c" left out of that word?
Who would want to abolish climaxes?
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yeahbut® who'd want to abolish weather?
Sorry maahey! ~ but it genuinely interested me that walking the dog led to dogging led to doggers, in the linguistic progression I described.
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