dogly

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1. Of, like, or pertaining to dogs or the dog family; canine.

   [Seminole Sam to the Dog:] It ain't dogly to bark "ahem".

   1959 June 4, Walt Kelly, Pogo, comic strip, →ISBN, page 47

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   I had a little dog who practiced all the dogly virtues. He never tried to get into any chairs or on any couches.

   1908, Ernest Hamlin Abbott, Lyman Abbott, Francis Rufus Bellamy, The Outlook

   If a chicken invades your garden to steal seed and your dog barks at it in the line of dogly duty, the chicken's owner has the legal right to kill your dog.

   1966, Kiplinger's Personal Finance

   It was a halfhearted attempt to get him to stop, because truly, I was hoping the dog would do the dogly thing and chew up the Frisbee.

   2006, Linda Johns, Hannah West in Deep Water

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1. In the manner of a dog.