Green’s Dictionary of Slang

dogged adj.

1. a euph. for damned adj.

[UK]R. Brome Covent-Garden Weeded II ii: What dirty dogged humour was I in when I got him troe?

2. amazed.

[UK]Comic Almanack Oct. 331: He stands and listens, sad and dogged, / To ‘fined five bob’ for being grogged.