Definition of "tigerish" [ti•ger•ish]

• Having the characteristics of a tiger (adjective)

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• "With a fury that may fairly be described as tigerish, women waged holy wars for and against the faith proclaimed by Mohammed."
• "She snatched him into her arms, and held him with a kind of tigerish ferocity."
• "Only there showed in them now and then a kind of tigerish passionateness, as when I fell off the sea-wall among the boulders and howled so dismally."