What is "puppylike"

Usage examples of "puppylike".

There was something floppy and puppylike about him — a certain heavy cloddishness in his feet — that suggested he would one day be a very large and imposing dog.

There was something floppy and puppylike about him—a certain heavy cloddishness in his feet—that suggested he would one day be a very large and imposing dog.

The teeners were agog with puppylike willingness, anxious to question him on what simply had to be exciting, and too often taking the more prosaic truth for some veiled criticism of their feminine worth.