puppy

i. [PUPPY, s.] To bring forth puppies or whelps; to pup. "The skin which cometh away after she hath pup pied."-P. Holland: Plinie , bk. xxx., ch. xiv. pup-pỹ-hood, s. [English puppy; -hood.] The condition or state of a puppy. "A hound that had not yet quite thrown off the instincts of puppyhood ."- Field , Feb. 20, 1886.