单词 | doglike |
释义 | doglikeadj.adv. A. adj. Like a dog; resembling that of a dog. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [adjective] doggish1530 doglike1569 dogged1589 canicular1592 caninal1599 canine1623 doggy1852 1569 N. Haward tr. Seneca Line of Liberalitie ii. xvii. f. 57 Diogenes surnamed Cinicus for his bestly and doglike lyfe. 1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke iii. vii. 86 A Doglike appetite is contrarie to losse of appetite. 1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso 437 To satisfie the ravenous and dog-like unsatiableness of such a company of starvelings. 1695 tr. Martial vii. xciv. 171 Th'Icicles, hanging at thy Dog-like Snout. 1737 H. Bracken Farriery Improved xxiii. 342 The Hungry Evil in Horses, which is the same that in Man we term Malacia and Bulimia, vulgarly called a Canine or Dog-like Appetite. 1781 T. Pennant Hist. Quadrupeds I. ii. i. 213 Loris... M[onkey] with a produced dog-like visage. 1840 R. H. Horne Gregory VII iii. iii. 50 I'll stir up all Rome,..And justify his death; his dog-like death. 1893 W. Cather Clemency of Court in Hesperian 26 Oct. 3/1 That helpless, doglike silence of his always had a bad effect on the guard's temper. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. ii. 20 All the dog-like beasts and all the bear-like beasts are obviously much nearer to the cat-like creatures than to rodents or to whales. 1966 R. Silverberg Forgotten by Time 117 Less cuddly-looking is the Tasmanian devil, a doglike marsupial with a big head and a fierce-looking mouth. 1983 A. O. Epple Amphibians of New Eng. 10 The mudpuppy's supposedly doglike appearance. 2004 Bark Winter 57/3 When you think about how different we are from other primates, you can see how dog-like we are. B. adv. In the manner of a dog. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [adverb] doggedly1591 doglike1860 1860 R. F. Burton in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 1859 29 416 The porters propping their burdens against trees, curl up, doglike, under the shade. 1874 A. C. Swinburne Bothwell iv. vii. 403 Maitland writhed his lip And let his teeth grin doglike. 1986 E. N. O'Neil tr. Love Spell of Attraction in H. D. Betz Greek Magical Papyri iv. 85 Come to me, horned-faced, light-bringer, Bull-shaped, horse-faced goddess, who howl doglike. 2006 Inside Bay Area (Calif.) (Nexis) 8 Sept. He barks doglike for emphasis, ‘rawr! rawr! rawr!’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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