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Puppyism   Listen
noun
Puppyism  n.  Extreme meanness, affectation, conceit, or impudence.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Puppyism" Quotes from Famous Books



... appearance of having caught the fox himself and stuck its brush below his nose. His neck is very stiff; and the exact Jackson-like fit of his coat, which almost nips him in two at the waist, and his superlatively well-cleaned leather Andersons,[2] together with the perfume and the general puppyism of his appearance, proclaim that he is a "swell" of the very first water, and one that a Surrey sportsman would like to buy at his own price and sell at the other's. In addition to this, his boots, which his "fellow" has just denuded from a ...
— Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities • Robert Smith Surtees



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