[f. TIGER + -HOOD.] The state or condition of being a tiger (in any sense); in quot. 1846, the post of boy-groom (see TIGER 6).
1846. Mrs. Gore, Eng. Char. (1852), 118. Advantages attached to the tigerhood of his establishment.
1871. Blackie, Four Phases, i. 34. The true humanity of man as distinguished from tigerhood and spiderhood.
1885. Hornaday, 2 Yrs. in Jungle, xiv. 159. A splendid specimen every way, just in the prime of tiger-hood.
