puppydomn.
/ˈpʌpɪd(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈpəpid(ə)m/ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > [noun] > impudent person > young man > collectively
puppydom1822
1822 L. Hunt in Liberal 1 246 I've a notion Will set the whole of Puppydom in motion.
1891 H. Lynch G. Meredith 5 The bites and barks of literary puppydom at his heels.
2. = puppyhood n. 1. Also figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > [noun] > pertness or brashness
sauciness1534
pertness1573
puppyism1776
sauce1786
puppyhood1849
puppydom1855
puppyishness1879
freshness1880
brashness1883
whipper-snapping1925
1855 W. MacCall National Missions 355 That blessed British constitution, which presents us a choice of statesmen and generals between puppydom and dotage.
1894 Westm. Gaz. 29 Sept. 2/1 Mrs. B..nurses them through all the troubles of puppydom to old age.
1952 L. Durrell Let. May in A. J. Thomas Spirit of Place (1969) 110 Sappho-Jane is great fun and awfully pretty now in her first puppydom.
2006 Palm Beach (Florida) Post (Nexis) 3 Mar. 1 e Is that what the previous 43 years amounted to? Puppydom? He started to feel ashamed.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1822