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tigerish

[ tahy-ger-ish ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

First recorded in 1565–75; tiger + -ish ¹

Brazzier was a man of tigerish temper, and he became infuriated in a few seconds at this repeated baffling of his purpose.

"Not one shall escape," Koyala reiterated, the tigerish light glowing in her eyes.

This was a side of him—a tigerish side—of which she had never dreamed, but she did not shrink from it, not one atom.

Shadow sprang to her side even as I secured the tigerish woman, and he said that she had only fainted.

At length the tigerish determination of Bascomb's foe began to drive the big fellow back again.

April 18, 2024petrichor

[pet-ri-kawr]

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