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puppily

puppily adjective: befitting a puppy.

Adjective

puppily (comparative more puppily, superlative most puppily)

  1. (obsolete) Befitting a puppy.

Adverb

puppily (comparative more puppily, superlative most puppily)

  1. (rare) In a puppyish manner.
    • Sometimes I was puppily in love, sometimes I was pettily in love, and sometimes — due to my OCD — I was even pathologically in love.2012, Jordan Rex Jensen, Psalms of Life

Forms of puppily

Adjective
comparativemore puppily
superlativemost puppily
Adverb
comparativemore puppily
superlativemost puppily

Origin of puppily

From puppy + -ly.

Questions about puppily

What does puppily mean?
Puppily means befitting a puppy.
What part of speech is puppily?
Puppily can be an adjective or an adverb.

Words near puppily in the dictionary

  1. puppie
  2. puppied
  3. puppies
  4. puppification
  5. puppihood
  6. puppily
  7. pupping
  8. Puppis
  9. puppodum
  10. puppodums
  11. PUPPP

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