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Puppyish

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Resembling or characteristic of a puppy.

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adj. With the playful, innocent, eager to please or energetic qualities of a puppy.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Like a puppy.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. characteristic of a puppy

Word Usage

"The jokes worked well, the earnestness of the math student Hal came through as a puppyish eagerness that made it seem like he didn't know most of it was funny, which only added."

Equivalent

immature young

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