doggish
adjEtymology From Middle English doggische, doggissh; equivalent to dog + -ish.
1
Resembling or characteristic of a dog.
- The show's high point is Jim Nutt's "Pug," an image of a woman whose slightly doggish face and coiled hair has all the concentrated perfection of a Northern Renaissance portrait.1998 April 12, Roberta Smith, “ART IN REVIEW; 'The Risk of Existence'”, in The New York Times:
2
Resembling a mongrel dog, notably in its worst qualities.
3
Stylish in a showy way.
- Derived terms
- doggishly, doggishness