Dogginess
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The state or quality of being doggy. uncountable
"What the first dogs had, like the last wolves, was what I call dogginess. Dogginess is the essence of dogdom writ large. Clearly the first dogs had dogginess, or we would not recognize them as related to modern dogs, but they certainly were not dogs as we know them now."
Example
More examples"What the first dogs had, like the last wolves, was what I call dogginess. Dogginess is the essence of dogdom writ large. Clearly the first dogs had dogginess, or we would not recognize them as related to modern dogs, but they certainly were not dogs as we know them now."
Etymology
From doggy + -ness.
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