English

Adjective

1. Similar to a dog
2. Similar to that of a dog; as, a doglike nose, doglike devotion
3. Befitting a dog; as, doglike treatment

Quotations

• Homer, The Odyssey, translated by Edward McCrorie in 2004:

  Nothing is more hateful and doglike than hunger: it tells then forces a man to remember its own needs, however worn the man is, the longing he suffers, the way my heart still mourns.

Adverb

1. In a doglike way
2. As one would act toward a dog; as, to treat someone doglike

See also

• canine
• doglike bat