What is "puppyish"

Usage examples of "puppyish".

He did, in fact, carry a torch for her, a crush that made him even more puppyish than usual whenever she was in the room.

His puppyish eagerness to touch her already gives the ache hopelessly away.

This caused her much embarrassment, since he persisted in being near her, making a puppyish nuisance of himself.

With a final, almost puppyish yelp it crumpled to the floor, blood gushing into the tan carpet.

It was this quality, this puppyish wistfulness that caught my sympathy.

By the time they stood before the ruin, Stanton had lost his puppyish ways.

The baby wolf decided that these four-legged giants were part of his pack, too, and with his normal puppyish eagerness to please, reached up to touch his tiny black nose to the soft warm nose of the mare.

She had been there when Ayla brought the tiny wolf pup to the lodge, and she had watched him grow up, but looking at Wolf as a stranger might see him, she realized he would not be seen as a puppyish young animal.

Tails whirring, sniffling with puppyish pleasure, the dogs now gamboled about the black-trousered legs.

Certainly she had spoken with none of the puppyish enthusiasm for rocks and landforms of the geologists that had briefed them.

Sissy had long, smooth dark hair, huge breasts, and a cute puppyish face.

Daffyd thought he knew Sally Iselin fairly well but thisfrom a girl characteristically full of puppyish goodnature and exuberance?