dogwise en · ADV
Etymology
From dog + -wise.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) In the manner of a dog.
He prowls round the neighborhood at nightfall, lying perdu all the day, generally in an inaccessible morass, curled up or lying outstretched dogwise on a round hassock of grass […]
1890, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell, The Living Age, volume 186: