dogbit

English

Etymology

From dog +‎ bit.

Adjective

dogbit (not comparable)

1. (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)

1. 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.