puppyismn.
/ˈpʌpɪɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈpəpiˌɪz(ə)m/ The character or behaviour of a puppy; impertinence; conceit; affectation (see puppy n. 2a); (also) youthful naivety, inexperience. Also occasionally: an instance of this.
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the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > [noun] > pertness or brashness
sauciness1534
pertness1573
puppyism1776
sauce1786
puppyhood1849
puppydom1855
puppyishness1879
freshness1880
brashness1883
whipper-snapping1925
1776 S. Crisp Let. Nov. in F. Burney Early Diary (1889) II. 144 To compare the vanities and puppyisms of the Greek and Roman..fine gentlemen..must be a high entertainment.
1784 New Spectator No. 21. 6 There was a grand display of puppyism. The front boxes were much crowded with beardless young fellows.
1799 E. Dubois Piece Family Biogr. II. 123 The affectation and puppyism of literature are less tolerable and more ridiculous than the puppyism of all other puppies in the world.
1825 Lancet 23 July 87/2 [The House Surgeon]..sent a pupil, remarkable for his puppyism and ignorance, to perform the operation... I daily witness the event of the sick poor being placed in the hands of inexperienced boys.
1862 W. M. Thackeray Adventures of Philip III. xi. 228 What do you know of him, with his monstrous puppyism and arrogance?
1872 E. Chamberlin Struggle of '72 554 It is a quiet satire on the dandyism, the puppyism and the shallow affectation of our fashionable exquisities.
1907 Lake County Times (Hammond, Indiana) 3 May 4/1 The Masonic fraternity of Hammond with whom I have mingled all my life will not countenance the display of splenetic puppyism in the criticism of my conduct as a reporter and a gentleman.
1992 Evening Standard (Nexis) 16 Apr. 11 He is like millions of young men in their twenties now, whose adulthood seems delayed by a kind of strange, winsome puppyism.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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