English

Alternative forms

• dog-like

Adjective

doglike ‎(comparative more doglike, superlative most doglike)

1. Similar to a dog; canine.
2. Similar to that of a dog

   doglike nose

   doglike devotion

3. (rare) Befitting a dog

   doglike treatment

Quotations

• Homer, The Odyssey, translated by Edward McCrorie in 2004:

  Nothing is more hateful and doglike than hunger: it tells then forces a man to remember its own needs, however worn the man is, the longing he suffers, the way my heart still mourns.

Adverb

doglike ‎(comparative more doglike, superlative most doglike)

1. In a doglike way.
2. (rare) As one would act toward a dog

   She treated me doglike.

See also

• canine
• doglike bat

Anagrams

• god-like, godlike