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  • adverb In a puppyish manner.

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Examples

  • And he, for all his grey years and sage experience, behaved quite as puppyishly and even a little more foolishly.

    The Battle of the Fangs 2010

  • In fact, he's boisterously, puppyishly enthusiastic about the show.

    John Hannah: 'I play a devious, lying, cheating, ambitious mother******. It's great!' 2010

  • My desk companions were those two blonde girls, already puppyishly pretty, whose names and bodies were to distract and haunt me for the next fifteen years of my life.

    Cider With Rosie Lee, Laurie 1959

  • And he, for all his gray years and sage experience, behaved quite as puppyishly and even a little more foolishly.

    The Battle of the Fangs 1906

  • And he, for all his grey years and sage experience, behaved quite as puppyishly and even a little more foolishly.

    White Fang Jack London 1896

  • On set, the young Clark, puppyishly enthusiastic and flirtatious on the one hand, formidably well connected and confident on the other, attracted Marilyn's attention.

    Evening Standard - Home David Sexton 2011

  • On set, the young Clark, puppyishly enthusiastic and flirtatious on the one hand, formidably well connected and confident on the other, attracted Marilyn's attention.

    Evening Standard - Home David Sexton 2011

  • They were backed by squads of cheerleading male bloggers, and, I'm sorry, if there's anything as ridiculous as a middle-aged man cluessly offering himself up to the scorn and derision of cool and intelligent young women, it's sensitive young men puppyishly jumping up and down and yipping about how they get it, they're ok with women being smarter and more talented than they are, and look at my blog roll, aren't I a good little feminist?

    Lance Mannion: 2005

  • They were backed by squads of cheerleading male bloggers, and, I'm sorry, if there's anything as ridiculous as a middle-aged man cluessly offering himself up to the scorn and derision of cool and intelligent young women, it's sensitive young men puppyishly jumping up and down and yipping about how they get it, they're ok with women being smarter and more talented than they are, and look at my blog roll, aren't I a good little feminist?

    Blogging on the right side of your brain 2005

  • As a teenager, he was "quite puppyishly keen to make friends and never quite understanding why that didn't happen.

    unknown title 2009

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