doggish

English

Etymology

From Middle English doggische, doggissh; equivalent to dog +‎ -ish.

Adjective

doggish (comparative more doggish, superlative most doggish)

1. Resembling or characteristic of a dog.

   Synonyms: doggy, doglike

   • 1998 December 4, Roberta Smith, “ART IN REVIEW; 'The Risk of Existence'”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     The show's high point is Jim Nutt's "Pug," an image of a woman whose slightly doggish face and coiled hair has all the concentrated perfection of a Northern Renaissance portrait.

2. Resembling a mongrel dog, notably in its worst qualities.

   Synonym: currish

3. Stylish in a showy way. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Derived terms

• doggishly
• doggishness

Translations

currish

• Bulgarian: кучешки (bg) (kučeški)
• Dutch: honds (nl), rekels (nl)
• Irish: conúil