Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Like a dog; churlish.

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  • adjective Of, like, or pertaining to dogs or the dog family; canine.
  • adverb In the manner of a dog.

Etymologies

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From Middle English *dogly, *doglich, equivalent dog +‎ -ly. Compare doglike.

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Examples

  • The first monkeys here were her baby and her boy and their parents (porphyrin and crew), so that was a good thing from the dogly perspective, and then there was 1crowdedhour, whose fine traits are not only readily apparent to monkeys, which we knew, but also to my dog, which we did not: Caroline got wagging right away, which is pretty unusual.

    Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway matastas 2008

  • Flurry of wagging, scruffing of bedclothes, knocking pillows around, looking at me with her head upside down and her wiggly little butt in the air, much dogly happiness.

    Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway markgritter 2008

  • It is the right whining. markgritter is out in California for his last trip with Sun, and my mom's taken the dogbeast for most of the week so that I don't have to haul her vertiginously through the snow, bend over nearly on my head to wipe off muddy paws, etc.etc. et-dogly-c.

    Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway markgritter 2008

  • Trotters jogged along between Tom and Dick, pausing at intervals to struggle with both forefeet to remove a collar bossed with solid gold that he regarded as an outrage to his dogly dignity.

    Guns of the Gods Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1921

  • Trotters jogged along between Tom and Dick, pausing at intervals to struggle with both forefeet to remove a collar bossed with solid gold that he regarded as an outrage to his dogly dignity.

    Guns of the Gods Talbot Mundy 1909

  • When he joined the regiment, he had passed beyond the period of puppyhood and was in the full flush of dogly beauty.

    The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories William Patten 1902

  • Sneeshing uttered a series of short barks, shook his head, and shuffled backwards, evidently laughing dogly with delight, and ending by getting his muzzle on Kenneth's breast and lying quite still.

    Three Boys or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai George Manville Fenn 1870

  • _ I know the respect thou bearest to the dogly character, and can attribute to nothing else the complacency with which thou hast listened to me since I released thy cloak.

    Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection Walter Savage Landor 1819

  • They spent almost an hour this morning and another hour this evening alternatively humping each other, barking nonsensically at everything, and prancing and dancing around each other and me in what can only be described as a religious, dogly praise of the universe and all its bounty.

    Rachel Lucas 2008

  • Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't most self-respecting dogs consider it their dogly duty to accompany their people everywhere they go whenever possible?

    xml's Blinklist.com 2008

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