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greyhoundish

greyhoundish adjective: resembling or characteristic of a greyhound.

Adjective

greyhoundish (comparative more greyhoundish, superlative most greyhoundish)

  1. (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a greyhound.
    • Gently, gently, friend Aaron: you trot on with those long legs of yours with such a greyhoundish speed, that my trotters can’t at all keep pace with you.[1829?], A[ndrew] L[eonard] V[oullaire] Campbell, The Forest Oracle; or, The Bridge of Tresino: An Operatic Drama, […] (Cumberland’s Minor Theatre, Being a Companion to Cumberland’s British Theatre...
    • I wouldn’t have said you were the pinchable type, Jackie. You models are too greyhoundish to nip well.1966, Gerald Hammond, chapter 4, in The Loose Screw (Linford Mystery Library), large print edition, Leicester, Leicestershire: Linford, published January 1988, →ISBN, page 113

Forms of greyhoundish

comparativemore greyhoundish
superlativemost greyhoundish

Origin of greyhoundish

From greyhound + -ish.

Questions about greyhoundish

What does greyhoundish mean?
Greyhoundish means resembling or characteristic of a greyhound.
What part of speech is greyhoundish?
Greyhoundish is an adjective.

Words near greyhoundish in the dictionary

  1. greyhens
  2. greyhound
  3. greyhound racing
  4. greyhounded
  5. greyhounding
  6. greyhoundish
  7. greyhoundlike
  8. greyhounds
  9. greyiaceous
  10. greyier
  11. greyiest

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