hotdoggy

See also: hot doggy and hot-doggy

English

Etymology

From hotdog +‎ -y.

Adjective

hotdoggy (comparative more hotdoggy, superlative most hotdoggy)

1. Alternative form of hot-doggy.
   • 1975, Ronald Sukenick, 98.6, New York, N.Y.: Fiction Collective, →ISBN, page 26:

     I mean I don’t want to exaggerate there is something there a kind of soft little end of hotdoggy thing with a frill around it it might be okay to piss through but he doesn’t have to piss.

   • 1996, Dave Margoshes, Long Distance Calls, Regina, Sask.: Coteau Books, →ISBN, page 24:

     […] she smelled of the sea, not the rank, oily waters of the East River that often shouldered its way on the back of fog along the Lower East Side, where he worked, or the flat, hotdoggy smell of the beach at Coney Island, but the bracing salt spray of the pounding surf at Far Rockaway, where he and my mother would sometimes go walking with the girls on Sunday afternoons.

   • 1997, Dewey Gram, Dante’s Peak, New York, N.Y.: Boulevard Books, →ISBN, page 96:

     He’d rather have a slightly hotdoggy good pilot than an unimaginative tyro, in case of trouble.

   • 2001, Mark Baven, Extreme Entrepreneur: Intelligent Information from the Edge, Irvine, Calif.: Entrepreneur Press, →ISBN, page 82:

     The extreme entrepreneur, on the other hand, uses any and all of these techniques to gather seed funding, as well as an array of other, more hotdoggy tactics (that may involve selling his grandmother down the river).

   • 2005 January 17, “Interview: Ian McCammon discusses the factors that lead people to risk their lives in avalanche conditions”, in Day to Day, NPR:

     Mr. [IAN] McCAMMON: Well, it's true. And, in fact, if you look at the total number of people that are caught, the percentage that are women are very, very low. But it's interesting, when you add women into a group of skiers, it seems to change the way they behave, particularly male skiers. Remember that the... / [ALEX] CHADWICK: The hotdogs have to be even more hotdoggy? / Mr. McCAMMON: Perhaps. Perhaps. Remember that the typical avalanche victim is in his late 20s.

   • 2010 October 26, Laura Shantora Nelles, “Trojans drop the ball in opener”, in The Daily Graphic, Portage la Prairie, Man., page 10:

     “We had a couple of guys got hurt, and there were some calls by the referees the guys didn’t like – it was not the best way to start off the year at home,” said Trojans’ head coach Mark Essay. “It’s unfortunate, because early on, everything we had been working on, they were doing it, and then all the systems and everything went by the wayside … guys were being hotdoggy, and we failed miserably.”

   • 2011 January 3, Kelly Fremon Craig, Besties‎^[1], page 33:

     NADINE (CONT’D) / Hey, so any word if your mom's friend can sew the hotdog suits for us? / KRISTA / Yeah, she's gonna make 'em out of polyfiber foam, that way they'll bend and breathe but still maintain their hotdoggy shape.