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dogginess

dogginess noun: the state or quality of being doggy.

Noun

dogginess (uncountable)

  1. The state or quality of being doggy.
    • 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.2021, Pat Shipman, Our Oldest Companions: The Story of the First Dogs, page 29

Origin of dogginess

From doggy + -ness.

Questions about dogginess

What does dogginess mean?
Dogginess means the state or quality of being doggy.
What part of speech is dogginess?
Dogginess is a noun.

Words near dogginess in the dictionary

  1. doggies
  2. doggiest
  3. doggiestyle
  4. doggily
  5. doggin'
  6. dogginess
  7. dogging
  8. dogging around
  9. dogging it
  10. dogging out
  11. doggings

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