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puppyish

puppyish adjective: with the playful, innocent, eager-to-please or energetic qualities of a puppy.

Adjective

puppyish (comparative more puppyish, superlative most puppyish)

  1. With the playful, innocent, eager-to-please or energetic qualities of a puppy.
    • He found his subordinate's puppyish enthusiasm a trifle wearing.

Forms of puppyish

comparativemore puppyish
superlativemost puppyish

Origin of puppyish

From puppy + -ish.

Words formed from puppyish

Questions about puppyish

What does puppyish mean?
Puppyish means with the playful, innocent, eager-to-please or energetic qualities of a puppy.
What part of speech is puppyish?
Puppyish is an adjective.

Words near puppyish in the dictionary

  1. puppygirlhood
  2. puppygirls
  3. puppyhood
  4. puppyhoods
  5. puppying
  6. puppyish
  7. puppyishly
  8. puppyism
  9. puppyisms
  10. puppyless
  11. puppylike

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