Definition of Doggishness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Doggishness

dogget
doggets
doggie
doggie bag
doggie bags
doggie door
doggier
doggies
doggiest
doggily
dogginess
dogging
doggings
doggish
doggishly
doggishness (current term)
doggishnesses
doggo
doggone
doggoned
doggoneder
doggonedest
doggoner
doggones
doggonest
doggoning
doggrel
doggrels
doggy
doggy-paddle

Literary usage of Doggishness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1887)
"We try the Captain, a bluff seaman, who replies, with a pleasant sort of sea-doggishness, that ."he is ready to take the ship wherever Mr. ..."

2. Macmillan's Magazine by John Morley, Mowbray Morris, David Masson, George Grove (1867)
"“As to you, my dear Richard, and your comments on my ‘tame doggishness' in Lady Charlotte's house, I advise you to beware of again touching on that subject. ..."

3. The American Language: An Inquiry Into the Development of English in the by Henry Louis Mencken (1921)
"The Englishman, when he makes use of coinages of that sort, does so in conscious relaxation, and usually with a somewhat heavy sense of doggishness. ..."

4. Venetian Life by William Dean Howells (1883)
"... and the Venetians invent and combine terms of opprobrium with endless facility, but all abuse begins and ends with the attribution of doggishness. ..."

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