dogwise

adv

dogwise

adv

Etymology From dog + -wise.

1

In the manner of a dog.

He prowls round the neighborhood at nightfall, lying perdu all the day, generally in an inaccessible morass, curled up or lying outstretched dogwise on a round hassock of grass […]1890, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell, The Living Age, volume 186:

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