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hotdoggy

hotdoggy is the alternative form of hot-doggy.

Meaning of hot-doggy

Adjective

hot-doggy (comparative more hot-doggy, superlative most hot-doggy)

  1. (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a hot dog.
    • The air around here is starting to get that slight hot-doggy, exhaust smell. Kind of like New York.1999 March 25, “The Vent”, in The Atlanta Constitution, volume 131, number 193, Atlanta, Ga., page B2, column 1
  2. (informal) With hot dogs.
    • Monday night they enjoyed dancing and Tuesday night they had a “hot-doggy” roast on the beach to which their friends were invited.1922 June 1, “Girl’s Club Outing at Seashore”, in Monmouth Democrat: A Weekly Compend of News, Politics, Literature, Agriculture, &c., volume LXXXVII, number 22 (whole 4593), Freehold, N.J., front...
  3. (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a show-off or daredevil.
    • Of waterskiing, if you can believe it, says retailer Jack Hanna of Nautique Water Ski & Sport Supply, “This is basically a hot-doggy sport. Everyone wants to look like a competitor.”1976 August 1, “The Affluent Activists”, in Forbes, page 22, columns 2–3

Forms of hotdoggy

comparativemore hotdoggy
superlativemost hotdoggy

Origin of hotdoggy

From hotdog + -y.

Questions about hotdoggy

What is hotdoggy the alternative form of?
Hotdoggy is the alternative form of hot-doggy.

Words near hotdoggy in the dictionary

  1. hotdogger
  2. hotdoggeries
  3. hotdoggers
  4. hotdoggery
  5. hotdogging
  6. hotdoggy
  7. hotdoglike
  8. hotdogs
  9. hote
  10. Hotei
  11. hotel

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