But even as I said it, I looked at her and felt that doggishness come over me again - or doggishness, perhaps, is not the term for it.

Even if she'd been able to conceptualize such things, she would never have known, for her children would never tell her, and there was something both hilarious and poignant in watching them revert to utter doggishness in her presence.

He knew he was playing his young doggishness for all it was worth, and was even conflicted about it, resolving not to act the "jolly dog," but lapping it up when Johnson calls him "a wild young dog" or a "drunken dog."