- puppylike
- adjective see puppy
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
puppylike
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puppylike — adjective Resembling a puppy. The image is of the young boy next door: sad, thoughtful, pretty, and puppylike. Lyrically his songs are about being let down and stood up, about loneliness … Wiktionary
puppylike — adjective characteristic of a puppy • Syn: ↑puppyish • Similar to: ↑young, ↑immature … Useful english dictionary
puppy — noun (plural puppies) Etymology: Middle English popi, from Middle French poupée doll, toy, from *poupe Date: 1567 1. a young domestic dog; specifically one less than a year old 2. baby 4 < a computer that is one fast puppy > • puppyhood … New Collegiate Dictionary
puppy — puppyhood, puppydom, n. puppyish, adj. puppylike, adj. /pup ee/, n., pl. puppies. 1. a young dog, esp. one less than a year old. 2. Fox Hunting. a foxhound that has hunted regularly for less than one season. 3. pup (def. 2). 4. a presuming,… … Universalium
soft-coated wheaten terrier — /sawft koh tid, soft / one of an Irish breed of medium sized sporting terriers having an abundant, soft, medium length coat, any shade of wheat in color, with its head and face profusely covered with coat. [1945 50] * * * ▪ breed of dog breed of … Universalium
beardless — Synonyms and related words: acomous, bald, bald headed, boyish, boylike, calflike, childish, childlike, clean shaven, coltish, depilous, girlish, girllike, glabrous, hairless, kiddish, maiden, maidenly, puerile, puplike, puppyish, puppylike,… … Moby Thesaurus
boyish — Synonyms and related words: adolescent, airy, attenuate, attenuated, beardless, boylike, calflike, childish, childlike, coltish, delicate, diaphanous, diluted, ethereal, fine, fine drawn, finespun, flimsy, frail, gauzy, girlish, girllike,… … Moby Thesaurus
childish — Synonyms and related words: arrested, asinine, babish, babyish, backward, beardless, boyish, boylike, calflike, childlike, coltish, decrepit, doddering, doddery, doited, doting, fatuous, foolish, girlish, girllike, immature, inexperienced,… … Moby Thesaurus
childlike — Synonyms and related words: angelic, artless, babish, babyish, beardless, blameless, bluff, blunt, born yesterday, boyish, boylike, calflike, candid, childish, clear, coltish, confiding, credulous, decrepit, dependent, depending, direct,… … Moby Thesaurus
coltish — Synonyms and related words: animated, antic, beardless, boyish, boylike, calflike, capersome, childish, childlike, elvish, exuberant, frisky, frolicsome, full of beans, gamesome, gay, girlish, girllike, hearty, impish, kiddish, kittenish, larkish … Moby Thesaurus
