adj. and adv. [f. as prec. + -LIKE.]
A. adj. Like, or like that of, a tiger; tigerish.
1577–87. Holinshed, Chron., I. 126/1. Which is more than tigerlike crueltie.
1828. Sewell, Oxf. Prize Ess., 40. Tyger-like thirst for blood.
1905. Westm. Gaz., 28 Jan., 4/2. In colour and markings the wild cat is very tiger-like.
B. adv. In a tigerish manner.
1576. Gascoigne, Philomene, cxxxi. (Arb.), 107. (Tygrelike) she toke The little boy.
1587. Turberv., Trag. T. (1837), 67. The tyrants mother Calvia, tygreleeke, Procurde þer plagues.
1850. R. G. Cumming, Hunter’s Life S. Afr. (1902), 142/2. My eye fixed tiger-like upon him.
