greyhoundish

comparative more greyhoundish · superlative most greyhoundish

1. informalResembling or characteristic of a greyhound.

   I wouldn’t have said you were the pinchable type, Jackie. You models are too greyhoundish to nip well.

   1966, Gerald Hammond, chapter 4, in The Loose Screw (Linford Mystery Library), large print edition, Leicester, Leicestershire: Linford, published January 1988, →ISBN, page 113

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   Gently, gently, friend Aaron: you trot on with those long legs of yours with such a greyhoundish speed, that my trotters can’t at all keep pace with you.

   [1829?], A[ndrew] L[eonard] V[oullaire] Campbell, The Forest Oracle; or, The Bridge of Tresino: An Operatic Drama, […] (Cumberland’s Minor Theatre, Being a Companion to Cumberland’s British Theatre; 16), London: John Cumberland, […], →OCLC, act II, scene III, page 34

   The frescoes in the scuola had real dogs in them, too. “Which is your favorite?” she asked Min, who plumped for the scruffy white terrier gazing up at Saint Augustine as he received from Saint Jerome the news of his imminent demise. “The obvious choice,” Eva said, “though for my part I prefer the long-snouted greyhoundish one watching him baptize the Selenites.”

   2020, David Leavitt, chapter 3, in Shelter in Place: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, part I, pages 22–23