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tygerish

tygerish is the obsolete form of tigerish.

Meaning of tigerish

Adjective

tigerish (comparative more tigerish, superlative most tigerish)

  1. Having the characteristics of a tiger.
    • Thomas P. Puccio, a tigerish New York lawyer who won fame prosecuting congressmen in the 1980s Abscam scandals, then switched sides and defended Claus von Bülow, corrupt politicians, an accused rapist who ran off to the ski slopes of Europe and other notorious clients, died on Monday in New Haven.2012 March 13, Robert D. McFadden, “Thomas Puccio, Ex-Prosecutor and Lawyer for Notorious Clients, Dies at 67”, in The New York Times
    Synonyms:
    tigerlike

Forms of tygerish

comparativemore tygerish
superlativemost tygerish

Questions about tygerish

What is tygerish the obsolete form of?
Tygerish is the obsolete form of tigerish.

Words near tygerish in the dictionary

  1. TYFYATTM
  2. TYFYS
  3. tyg
  4. Tygalgah
  5. tyger
  6. tygerish
  7. tygers
  8. Tygert
  9. Tygerts
  10. Tygh
  11. tygre

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tygerish (page history and authors); tigerish (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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