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puppyish, a.|ˈpʌpɪɪʃ|
[f. as prec. + -ish1.]
Of the nature or character of a puppy (sense 2, 3).
1775F. Burney Early Diary, Let. 14 Apr., He is conceited, self-sufficient, and puppyish. 1828Blackw. Mag. XXIII. 34 Your stage fops are to be..silly in stays, puppyish in pantaloons. 1852F. E. Smedley Lewis Arundel xl. 351 His whole demeanour blasé and puppyish in the extreme. 1925F. Scott Fitzgerald Great Gatsby (1926) iii. 61 Girls were putting their heads on men's shoulders in a puppyish, convivial way. 1931[see pawing vbl. n. and ppl. a.]. 1978P. Harcourt Agents of Influence ii. 45 ‘My daughter, Sally.’.. She was round, puppyish, charming.
Hence ˈpuppyishly adv.; ˈpuppyishness.
1817H. C. B. Campbell Jrnl. 10 Oct. in Journey to Florence (1951) 103 Mr Cornwall was puppieshly vulgar. 1941Scrutiny X. 77 He becomes in short by an inevitable process Frank Churchill,..a suspicion of the original puppyishness and lack of nice feeling still attached to his character. 1949M. Mead Male & Female iii. 67 There is..much giggling puppyishness among boys. |