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doggish, a.|ˈdɒgɪʃ|
[f. dog n.1 + -ish.]
1. Of the nature of, pertaining to, or resembling a dog; canine.
doggish appetite, a ravenous or insatiable appetite (see dog-appetite s.v. dog n.1 20 a). † doggish letter (Minsheu, Span. Gram. 8) = dog's letter.
1530Palsgr. 310/2 Doggysshe, of the condycions or of the nature of a dogge, chienin. a1619M. Fotherby Atheom. i. xv. §2 (1622) 156 Hee was taken..with a doggish Appetite, which called for meat almost euery moment. 1684Bunyan Pilgr. ii. 29 To do to them what his Dogish nature would prompt him to. 1814Cary Dante, Inferno xxxii. 70 Visages..shap'd into a doggish grin. 1874Trollope Lady Anna vii, The..doggish love of fighting prevailed in the man.
2. Having or indicating a dog-like disposition or character, currish; malicious, spiteful, ill-natured; snappish, snarling, cynical. (Now rare.)
c1400Beryn 181 The frere, Howe he lowrith vndir his hood with a doggissh ey? a1420Wyclif's Ecclus. xiii. 22 marg. (MS. Cott. Claud. E 11) A doggische man, and siche is a chidere, and a wrathful man, and a glotoun. a1536Tindale Exp. Matt. To Rdr. Wks. II. 10 Cruel and doggish hypocrites. 1553T. Wilson Rhet. (1567) 77 a note, Diogenes doggish aunswer in despit of women. 1579J. Jones Preserv. Bodie & Soule i. ii. 22 The doggish Philosopher Demetrius. 1672Eachard Hobbs's State Nat. 31 That All Men by nature were doggish, spightful and treacherous. 1863Sala Capt. Dangerous II. iv. 133 You may cry Haro upon me for a Cynic or Doggish philosopher.
†b. Brutish, bestial, sensual. Obs.
1594T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. ii. 588 These doggish epicures and atheists. 1610Rowlands Martin Mark-all 27 Dissolute in behauiour, Apish, doggish, and Swinish.
Hence ˈdoggishly adv.; ˈdoggishness.
1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 319, I am troubled..and doggishly dealt withall. 1592Babington Comf. Notes Gen. xxix. §3 Doggishnesse and currishnesse graceth neither Countrie nor people. 1866Howells Venet. Life vii. 113 All abuse begins and ends with the attribute of doggishness. 1905A. Bennett Tales 5 Towns i. 109 He had seldom felt less doggy... It seemed to him that doggishness was not the glorious thing he had thought. 1928D. H. Lawrence in E. Rickword Scrutinies v. 62 The Forsyte trying to be freely sensual. He can't do it... He can only be doggishly messy. Ibid. v. 66 Next time I'll get properly married and do my doggishness in my own house. |