ˈdog-like, a. and adv.
Like, or in the manner of, a dog.
| 1605 Timme Quersit. i. xv. 75 A doglike appetite. 1859 R. F. Burton Centr. Afr. in Jrnl. Geog. Soc. XXIX. 416 The porters propping their burdens against trees, curl up, doglike, under the shade. 1874 L. Stephen Hours in Library (1892) I. iii. 123 There is something which rises to the dog-like in his affectionate admiration for Swift. |