doggishness

She does some great work, but she's got a bit of blue-doggishness in her.

Klobuchar: Minn. Senate Race Will Be Over By July 4 -- Or "I'll Just Be Mad" 2010

           Little by little he coaxed from the snow he'd rolled together, animal forms — generic at first, and then you'd begin to see the kind, asgoatordog, and in course of time, from general doggishness there arose — up into his own once and forever mortal frame, the very image of the animal most recently lost.

Ezekiel Rising 2009

I saying Tony, the behavior level, the dating doggishness that many women ...

CNN Transcript Jun 3, 2006 2006

Is not that manger-doggishness one of the most common phases of the human heart?

Framley Parsonage 2004

With what an inimitable air of wisdom, cynicism, ancientry, learned aloofness and desire to be observed do they stroll to and fro across the quads, so keenly aware in their inmost bosoms of the presence of visitors and determined to grant an appearance of mingled wisdom, great age, and sad doggishness!

Pipefuls Christopher Morley 1923

The Englishman, when he makes use of coinages of that sort, does so in conscious relaxation, and usually with a somewhat heavy sense of doggishness.

Chapter 6. Tendencies in American. 1. General Characters Henry Louis 1921

It seemed to him that doggishness was not the glorious thing he had thought.

Tales of the Five Towns Arnold Bennett 1899

The lamp-post remained bent for three days -- a fearful warning to all dogs that doggishness has limits.

Tales of the Five Towns Arnold Bennett 1899

Charlie leaned back in his chair, drew down the corners of his mouth, nodded his head knowingly, and then quite spoiled the desired effect of doggishness by his delightfully candid smile.

Clayhanger Arnold Bennett 1899

(The vocabulary of Venetian abuse is inexhaustible, and the Venetians invent and combine terms of opprobrium with endless facility, but all abuse begins and ends with the attribution of doggishness.)

Venetian Life William Dean Howells 1878