puppylike
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling a puppy.
Example Sentences
- "The image is of the young boy next door: sad, thoughtful, pretty, and puppylike. Lyrically his songs are about being let down and stood up, about loneliness..."
- "The dog's appearance and behavior have been strongly influenced by a pervasive process of neoteny, causing it to remain more puppylike as an adult..."
Etymology
Etymology tree English puppy Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-West Germanic *-līk Old English -līċ Middle English -like English -like English puppylike From puppy + -like.
Inflected Forms
more puppylike (comparative)
most puppylike (superlative)