tigrish
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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Nothing could be more vagrant, devil-me-carish, and, to use a slang word, tigrish, than his whole air.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. by Various
She turned on me with what I can only describe as tigrish ferocity.
From Greener Than You Think by Moore, Ward
Nothing could be more fragrant, devil-me-carish, and to use a slang word, tigrish, than his whole air.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 by Various
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