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单词 dogsbodying
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dogsbodyingn.

Brit. /ˈdɒɡzbɒdɪɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈdɔɡzˌbɑdiɪŋ/, /ˈdɑɡzˌbɑdiɪŋ/
Forms: 1900s– dog's-bodying, 1900s– dogsbodying.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: dogsbody n., -ing suffix1.
Etymology: < dogsbody n. + -ing suffix1. Compare later dogsbody v.
British colloquial.
The work of a dogsbody; the carrying out of menial tasks.
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1956 Jrnl. Eccl. Hist. 7 46 Lee..was at this time royal chaplain and a master in chancery, offices which commonly involved a general dogsbodying in matters ecclesiastical on behalf of the government.
1989 D. Merwin in A. Stevenson Bitter Fame 346 My own semi-tongue-in-cheek dogsbodying..had started off on a basis of free-range good intentions and deteriorated into a pretty joyless arrangement.
2003 P. Oppenheim Maggie to Margaritas xxxvi. 271 At the very bottom, lumpy, hard-bitten kitchen porters or KPs do the dogsbodying like scraping dishes.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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