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ˈtiger-like, a. and adv.
[f. as prec. + -like.]
A. adj. Like, or like that of, a tiger; tigerish.
1577–87Holinshed Chron. I. 126/1 Which is more than tigerlike crueltie. 1828Sewell Oxf. Prize Ess. 40 Tyger⁓like thirst for blood. 1905Westm. Gaz. 28 Jan. 4/2 In colour and markings the wild cat is very tiger-like.
B. adv. In a tigerish manner.
1576Gascoigne Philomene cxxxi. (Arb.) 107 (Tygrelike) she toke The little boy. 1587Turberv. Trag. T. (1837) 67 The tyrants mother Calvia, tygreleeke, Procurde her plagues. 1850R. G. Cumming Hunter's Life S. Afr. (1902) 142/2 My eye fixed tiger-like upon him. |