tigerish
- s resembling a tiger in fierceness and lack of mercy
a tigerish fury
- He and his tigerish prosecutors want no Soviet judges trained up that way, and the Dictator is on his way to get results, even if he has to break every Old Bolshevik in the .
- Born to Be Bad (RKO Radio) casts Joan Fontaine as a wicked lady with kittenish airs and tigerish aspirations.
- This is partly because the playgoer knows from the first skitterish-tigerish encounter that Chicken and Myrtle are fated to be sexmates.