dogfood

See also: dog food

English

Alternative forms

• dog food, dog-food

Etymology

From dog +‎ food.

Pronunciation

• Audio (General Australian):

  (file)

Verb

dogfood (third-person singular simple present dogfoods, present participle dogfooding, simple past and past participle dogfooded)

1. (transitive, computing, slang) To eat one's own dog food, to use products developed by oneself or by one’s own company as end users.
   • 2012, Sam Guckenheimer, Neno Loje, Agile Software Engineering with Visual Studio: From Concept to Continuous Feedback, Addison-Wesley Professional, →ISBN, page 259:

     We're dog-fooding that release now, in three-weekly sprints.

Noun

dogfood (countable and uncountable, plural dogfoods)

1. (US) Alternative spelling of dog food