ˈtiger-like, a. and adv.
[f. as prec. + -like.]
A. adj. Like, or like that of, a tiger; tigerish.
| 1577–87 Holinshed Chron. I. 126/1 Which is more than tigerlike crueltie. 1828 Sewell Oxf. Prize Ess. 40 Tyger⁓like thirst for blood. 1905 Westm. Gaz. 28 Jan. 4/2 In colour and markings the wild cat is very tiger-like. |
B. adv. In a tigerish manner.
| 1576 Gascoigne Philomene cxxxi. (Arb.) 107 (Tygrelike) she toke The little boy. 1587 Turberv. Trag. T. (1837) 67 The tyrants mother Calvia, tygreleeke, Procurde her plagues. 1850 R. G. Cumming Hunter's Life S. Afr. (1902) 142/2 My eye fixed tiger-like upon him. |