b : for being a persistent source of issues or distress to (another person) : plague Rumors dogged him all over his public life.—Blasphemous Puppy, I ponder the earth / Doth cease from renting vnderneath thy feete, / To swallow vp those cankred corpes of thine.Never give pet dogs what on earth is holy; and don't Solid pearls just before swine,