different between nogging vs dogging

English

Verb

nogging

1. present participle of nog

Noun

nogging (countable and uncountable, plural noggings)

1. A horizontal beam used in the construction of a building, especially to strengthen upright posts.
2. Rough brick masonry used to fill open spaces.

Anagrams

• gonging

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d????/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d????/
• (Canada, cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /?d????/
• Rhymes: -????

Noun

dogging (plural doggings)

1. The act of one who dogs or harasses.
   • 1844, George Lillie Craik, Charles MacFarlane, The Pictorial History of England (page 598)

     […] free from the doggings of the common informer, but under the superintendence of the bishop […]

2. (Britain) The practice of having sexual intercourse in public places, especially parks, deliberately taking the chance of being watched.
   • 2016, Alan Moore, Jerusalem, Liveright, p. 21:

     Even that […] had been less awful than this date-rape opportunity and likely dogging hotspot, with its hasty skim of tarmac spread like cheap, stale caviar across the pink pedestrian tiles beneath […].

Verb

dogging

1. present participle of dog