dogliness
nounEtymology From dogly + -ness.
1
The state, quality, or condition of being dogly.
- My own observations would endorse that concept, especially in the case of Dido, my ninth dog and first Labrador, who epitomizes the spirit of dogliness more than any other I have encountered.1995, Chapman Pincher, My Life as a Real Dog, page ix:
- The moment when the wolf took its first step toward dogliness is no more specific than any other moment in evolutionary history.2019, Maggie Ryan Sandford, Consider the Platypus: