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tigerishness

  • a word derived from tiger.
    tiger
    noun
    a large, carnivorous, tawny-colored and black-striped feline, Panthera tigris, of Asia, ranging in several subspecies from India and the Malay Peninsula to Siberia: the entire species is endangered, with some subspecies thought to be extinct.
  • a word derived from tigerish.
    tigerish
    adjective
    tigerlike, as in strength, fierceness, courage, or coloration.

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Goring's jocund tigerishness is embodied by a bulky Hungarian named Alexander Pope.

From Time Magazine Archive

She snarls with a sudden access of tigerishness.

From The Dop Doctor by Richard Dehan