Definition of "doggish" [dog•gish]

• Relating to or suggestive of a dog. (adjective)
• Surly; gruff. (adjective)
• Informal Showily stylish. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The reason you see so many women become the victims of doggish men is because their fathers have not told them anything except that if you go out and do such and such, you're a slut and no daughter of mine."
• "It came to me that their behavior was like that of hungry dogs, and in the fitness of things I should not have been astonished had Zilla suddenly developed a tail and thumped it on the floor in right doggish fashion."
• "Reading it made me think that it might be helpful to create a list of the characters populating this shaggy doggish story to date."