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pantherish

pantherish adjective: like a panther; catlike.

Adjective

pantherish (comparative more pantherish, superlative most pantherish)

  1. Like a panther; catlike.
    • She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had expected to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven, burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter III...

Forms of pantherish

comparativemore pantherish
superlativemost pantherish

Origin of pantherish

From panther + -ish.

Words formed from pantherish

Questions about pantherish

What does pantherish mean?
Pantherish means like a panther; catlike.
What part of speech is pantherish?
Pantherish is an adjective.

Words near pantherish in the dictionary

  1. pantherids
  2. pantherin
  3. pantherine
  4. pantherines
  5. pantherins
  6. pantherish
  7. pantherishly
  8. pantherlike
  9. panthers
  10. pantheum
  11. panthodic

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