Definitions
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- noun The state of being a
puppy ;puppyhood .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The difficulties of puppydom will be minimized by the live in staff who will help with the "incidentals".
Obama, Don't Get a Puppy aka TBTAM 2008
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Our husky is so cat-like that several people mistook her for a cat during her puppydom.
A Mouse in the House & Other Tidbits. Field Notes 2007
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It's just the exuberance of puppydom, and it's charming to watch, if you manage not to get run over in the process.
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It's just the exuberance of puppydom, and it's charming to watch, if you manage not to get run over in the process.
October 2004 2004
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Alike in the sports of puppydom and the non-sexual activities of adult age; alike in the possession of the initial sexual instinct which draws the sex to the sex, the moment active sexual reproduction is concerned, there is opened to the female a certain world of sensations and experiences, from which her male companion is for ever excluded.
Woman and Labour 2003
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With the quick instinct which belongs to well-bred puppydom, and is not unknown even in children, the dogs had caught the graver note which changed her voice.
The Justice of the King Hamilton Drummond 1896
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Besides, some play he did not share was in progress, and he owed it to the dignity of his puppydom to know what it was.
The Justice of the King Hamilton Drummond 1896
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Charlemagne vouched for him, Charlemagne who was their oracle as grown-up brothers so often are, and they could let loose the exuberance of their puppydom without a fear that a sudden cuff would teach their youth that wild delights find an end in sorrow.
The Justice of the King Hamilton Drummond 1896
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Alike in the sports of puppydom and the non-sexual activities of adult age; alike in the possession of the initial sexual instinct which draws the sex to the sex, the moment active sexual reproduction is concerned, there is opened to the female a certain world of sensations and experiences, from which her male companion is for ever excluded.
Woman and Labour Olive Schreiner 1887
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Does he think that literature went to the dogs when Thackeray wrote about puppydom?
Miscellanies Oscar Wilde 1877
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