dogitude

alternative doggitude

1. uncountableThe state or quality of being or resembling a dog.

   All cells reach toward dogitude. I need dog breath, eyes, fur, smell.

   2003, Cynthia Heimel, Advanced Sex Tips for Girls: This Time It's Personal, →ISBN, page 171

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   Some essence of dogitude shines through all the caprices of taste and breeding that humans have applied to the animal.

   1988 April 8, Jerry Sullivan, “Field & Street”, in Chicago Reader

   “We are all dogs. No one should ever have to publicly defend their dogitude.”

   2012 February 16, Suzi Parker, “Some Arkansas Dems still waiting for Clinton’s ‘thank you’”, in Washington Post, retrieved 30 Jun 2015

   Synonyms: doghood, dogness, caninity