Puppylike

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    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..."

Adjective
  1. 1
    characteristic of a puppy wordnet

Example

More examples

"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..."

Etymology

From puppy + -like.

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