Lexicographical Neighbors of Doggishness
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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