tigerishadj.
/ˈtʌɪɡərɪʃ/ 1.
a. Like, or like that of, a tiger; esp. of the nature or having the qualities of the tiger; cruel, bloodthirsty, fierce, relentless.
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the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > savagery > [adjective]
grimlyc893
retheeOE
grim971
bitterOE
bremec1175
grillc1175
grimfula1240
cruel1297
sturdy1297
fiercea1300
fellc1300
boistousa1387
felonousc1386
savagea1393
bestiala1398
bremelya1400
felona1400
hetera1400
cursedc1400
wicked14..
vengeablec1430
wolvishc1430
unnatural?1473
inhuman1481
brutisha1513
cruent1524
felonish1530
mannish1530
abominate1531
lionish1549
boarish?1550
truculent?c1550
unhumanc1550
lion-like1556
beastly1558
orped1567
raw?1573
tigerish?1573
unmanlike1579
boisterous1581
savaged1583
tiger-like1587
yond1590
truculental1593
savage wild1595
tigerous1597
inhumane1598
Neronian1598
immane1599
Phalarical1602
ungentle1603
feral1604
savagious1605
fierceful1607
Dionysian1608
wolvy1611
Hunnish1625
lionly1631
tigerly1633
savage-hearted1639
brutal1641
feroce1641
ferocious1646
asperous1650
ferousa1652
wolfish1674
tiger1763
savage-fierce1770
Tartar1809
Tartarly1821
Neroic1851
tigery1859
Neronic1864
unmannish1867
inhumanitarian1947
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > fierceness > [adjective]
grimlyc893
wrothc893
reighOE
grima1000
grillc1175
witherc1175
grimfula1240
sturdy1297
wild1297
fiercea1300
man-keenc1300
stoutc1300
cruelc1330
fell?c1335
wicked1375
felonousc1386
felona1400
cursedc1400
runishc1400
keen?c1425
roid?c1425
wolvishc1430
ranishc1450
malicious1485
mankind1519
mannish1530
lionish1549
truculent?c1550
lion-like1556
tigerish?1573
tiger-like1587
truculental1593
Amazonian1595
tigerous1597
feral1604
fierceful1607
efferous1614
lionly1631
tigerly1633
feroce1641
ferocious1646
asperous1650
ferousa1652
blusterous1663
wolfish1674
boarisha1718
savage-fierce1770
Tartar1809
Tartarly1821
wolfy1828
savagerous1832
hawkish1841
tigery1859
attern1868
Hunnish1915
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Felidae (feline) > [adjective] > of or like a tiger
tigrine1656
tigerish1887
tiger-like1905
?1573 L. Lloyd Pilgrimage of Princes f. 168* Her cruell and Tigrishe harte.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) v. sig. Rr1 Were thy eyes so stonie, thy brest so tygreshe?
1604 W. Alexander Aurora xci And with my ashes glut thy Tygrish heart.
1846 Blackwood's Mag. 59 406 [Their] craving for possession is treacherous and tigerish.
1887 E. E. Money Little Dutch Maiden (1888) 95 A wild-cat skin with handsome tigerish stripes.
1909 Daily Chron. 18 Feb. 7/4 There are many predatory and tigerish plants, of which the sundew is a notable example.
b. Loud, flashy: cf. tiger n. 7.
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the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > flashiness or gaudiness > [adjective]
fine1526
garish1545
flaunting1567
gawish1567
taffety1597
showful1607
flaming1609
flaring1610
over-brave1620
showish1675
rantingc1685
gaudy1709
showy1712
tinselled1738
kicky1790
flaunty1796
flashy1801
slangish1813
florid1815
tigerish1831
flash1836
flary1841
loud1850
flashy-looking1852
splurgy1852
cheesy1858
flagrant1858
jingo1859
cheesy1863
orchidaceous1864
flamboyant1879
vociferous1883
voyant1906
grandstanding1908
floozy1911
ritzy1919
like a (or the) dog's dinner1927
plush horse1936
kitsch1953
zazzy1961
pizzazz1969
1831 [see tigerish-looking adj. at Compounds].
1836 New Monthly Mag. 48 458 Whatever deviates from the unique standard of gentlemen's dressing is tigerish.
1853 E. Bulwer-Lytton My Novel II. vi. xx. 174 Nothing could be more vagrant,..and, to use a slang word, tigrish, than his whole air.
2. Abounding in or infested with tigers.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Felidae (feline) > [adjective] > of or like a tiger > abounding in tigers
tigerish1819
1819 Sporting Mag. 4 175 They had crossed again Firoze's canal, which appeared very tigerish.
1851 Fraser's Mag. 44 19 Through the thickest and most tigerish section of the jungle.
Compounds
tigerish-looking adj.
ΚΠ
1831 Society 1 48 A tigerish looking man planted himself where he could very rudely stare at Miss Delamere.
Derivatives
ˈtigerishly adv.
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the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > savagery > [adverb]
grimc893
sternlyc897
bremeOE
bitterlyc1000
etelichec1175
heterlya1225
felonly1303
asperlyc1314
fellc1330
fellyc1330
cruentlyc1380
beastlyc1390
unmanlyc1454
felonmentc1470
cruelly1487
inhumanly1490
unkindfully?1534
boarishlya1563
savagely1563
tiger-like1576
unhumanly1586
inhumanlike1595
inhumanely1598
immanely1612
savagiously1625
wolvishly1628
beastlilya1631
brutisha1645
truculently1654
tigerously1698
brutally1749
tigerishly1878
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > fierceness > [adverb]
grimc893
grimly971
bremeOE
reighlyOE
witherc1200
felonly1303
asperlyc1314
fellc1330
fellyc1330
fiercelya1375
sturdilyc1374
wickedlya1375
sternly1398
runishlyc1400
witherlyc1400
felonmentc1470
cruelly1487
blusterously1548
boarishlya1563
tiger-like1576
sternfully1582
mankindly1606
wolvishly1628
truculently1654
tigerously1698
tigerishly1878
1878 J. Todhunter Alcestis 125 This sudden flood of fearful rapture, which Tugs my heart tigerishly.
ˈtigerishness n.
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the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > [noun]
boast1297
strut1303
bombancec1325
bobantc1330
bobancec1380
ambitionc1384
oliprancec1390
pretence?a1439
ostentationa1475
pransawtea1500
bravity1546
finesse1549
bravery1573
overlashing1579
brave1596
peacockry1596
garishness1598
maggot ostentation1598
ostent1609
flaunta1625
spectability1637
vantation1637
fastuousness1649
fastuosity1656
finery1656
parade1656
phantastry1656
ostentatiousness1658
éclat1704
pretension1706
braw1724
swell1724
showiness1730
ostensibility1775
fanfaronade1784
display1816
showing off1822
glimmer1827
tigerism1836
peacockery1844
show-off1846
flare1847
peacockism1854
swank1854
tigerishness1869
flashness1888
flamboyance1891
peacockishness1892
flamboyancy1896
swankiness1920
plushness1949
glitziness1982
fantasia-
fantastication-
the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun] > dandy > style or condition of
wantonnessc1405
beauship1696
foppery1697
beauetry1702
foppishness1741
buckism1753
macaronism1775
buckishness1803
dandiness1819
dandyism1819
petit maitreship1822
dandyhood1823
petit maitreism1824
dandification1827
exquisitism1833
beauism1844
dandydomc1850
tigerishness1869
dudedom1883
dudeism1883
dudery1883
dudeness1884
1869 Daily News 12 June A well-known plunger, whose attendant tiger is a miracle of tigerishness.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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