hot-doggy adjective3 •(informal) Resembling or characteristic of a hot dog.The air around here is starting to get that slight hot-doggy, exhaust smell. Kind of like New York. — 1999 •(informal) With hot dogs.Monday night they enjoyed dancing and Tuesday night they had a “hot-doggy” roast on the beach to which their friends were invited. — 1922 •(informal) Resembling or characteristic of a show-off or daredevil.Of waterskiing, if you can believe it, says retailer Jack Hanna of Nautique Water Ski & Sport Supply, “This is basically a hot-doggy sport. Everyone wants to look like a competitor.” — 1976 formsmore hot doggy · more hot-doggy · most hot doggy · most hot-doggy