Dictionary

underdoggy en · ADJ

Etymology

From underdog + -y.

Meanings

1. (informal) Characteristic of an underdog.
   • The bar is low, so it’s actually a relief when a zombified Ye does his best impression of his own past music: He’s a little underdoggy, a little indignant, a little meditative, drifting in Auto-Tune and rapping over an array of top-shelf samples. 2026 April 1, Kieran Press-Reynolds, “Kanye West: Bully Album Review”, in Pitchfork:
   • MEN AT WORK […] There was something underdoggy about the name as well that I quite liked. It kind of always struck me as coming up from underneath or something. 2019, Adam Dolgins, The Big Book of Rock & Roll Names:

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Synonyms

underdoggish