doglike

English

Alternative forms

• dog-like

Etymology

From dog +‎ -like.

Adjective

doglike (comparative more doglike, superlative most doglike)

1. Similar to that of a dog; canine.

   doglike nose

   doglike devotion

   • 2011 August 1, Sean B. Carroll, “Call of the Thylacine: Protect the Wild”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Weighing about 60 pounds and bearing powerful jaws, the thylacine had a doglike skull, was about the height and shape of a Doberman, and had tigerlike stripes on its back that may have helped conceal it in the bush from its prey.

2. (rare) Befitting a dog.

   doglike treatment

Quotations

• Homer, The Odyssey, translated by Edward McCrorie in 2004:

  Nothing is more hateful and doglike than hunger: it tells then forces a man to remember its own needs, however worn the man is, the longing he suffers, the way my heart still mourns.

Derived terms

• undoglike

 

Translations

Similar to, or of, dogs

• Esperanto: hundeca
• Portuguese: canino (pt)

Adverb

doglike (comparative more doglike, superlative most doglike)

1. In a doglike way.
2. (rare) As one would act toward a dog

   She treated me doglike.

See also

• canine

Anagrams

• god-like, godlike