doggish
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English doggische, doggissh; equivalent to dog + -ish.
Adjective
[edit]doggish (comparative more doggish, superlative most doggish)
- Resembling or characteristic of a dog.
- 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.
- Resembling a mongrel dog, notably in its worst qualities.
- Synonym: currish
- Stylish in a showy way. (Can we add an example for this sense?)