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  • adverb In the manner of a dog.

Etymologies

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dog +‎ -wise

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Examples

  • Actually, I think that's pretty universal, dogwise.

    Lost And Found Foster, Alan Dean 2004

  • Rosemary McClean knew it; the old woman, of the sweeper caste, that is no caste at all, - the hag with the flat breasts and wrinkled skin, who followed her dogwise, and was no more protection than a toothless dog, - knew it well, and growled about it in incessant undertones that met with neither comment nor response.

    Rung Ho Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1914

  • At midnight they left her, curled dogwise on a mat in the hall, to sleep; and at dawn, when they came to wake her, she was gone again - gone utterly, without a trace or sign of explanation.

    Rung Ho Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1914

  • What's lost in this combination of metrical mellifluousness and clunkiness (elbowed dogwise?) is any sense of genuine exasperation.

    3quarksdaily 2009

  • I ask the gods some respite from the weariness of this watchtime measured by years I lie awake elbowed upon the Atreidae's roof dogwise to mark the grand processionals of all the stars of night ....

    3quarksdaily 2009

  • I know a dogwise giant who lives east of the Rivers Elivagar, and who has a strong kettle, fully a mile deep, and large enough to brew ale for all the world. "

    The Story of Siegfried James Baldwin 1883

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