doglike
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Adjective [edit]
doglike (comparative more doglike, superlative most doglike)
- Similar to a dog; canine.
- Similar to that of a dog; as, a doglike nose, doglike devotion.
- (rare) Befitting a dog; as, doglike treatment.
Quotations [edit]
- Homer, The Odyssey, translated by Edward McCrorie in 2004:
- Nothing is more hateful and doglike than hunger: it tells then forces a man to remember its own needs, however worn the man is, the longing he suffers, the way my heart still mourns.
Adverb [edit]
doglike (comparative more doglike, superlative most doglike)
- In a doglike way.
- (rare) As one would act toward a dog; as, to treat someone doglike.
