Tarzan-like

From Tarzan +‎ -like.

Tarzan-like (comparative more Tarzan-like, superlative most Tarzan-like)

1. Resembling the fictional character Tarzan.
   • 1922 June 20, The Sydney Sportsman, page 8, column 1:

     His massive chest is covered with a fine growth of hair that gives him a Tarzan-like appearance.

   • 1936 April 25, Bernard DeVoto, “Genius Is Not Enough”, in Saturday Review of Literature, New York, page 3:

     But also, there were parts that looked very dubious indeed—long, whirling discharges of words, unabsorbed in the novel, unrelated to the proper business of fiction, badly if not altogether unacceptable writing, raw gobs of emotion, aimless and quite meaningless jabber, claptrap, belches, grunts, and Tarzan-like screams.

   • 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 189:

     I could have easily been in the Congo. Trees, Tarzan-like vines, creepy crawlies, spiders and more spiders.

   • 2002 September 9, “Golf: Tree wood keeps Faldo in driving seat”, in South Wales Echo, Cardiff, page 16:

     European tour referee John Paramor came up with a pair of binoculars for Lane to try to see the ball. And when that did not work Joey Jones, a caddie who was watching at the time, clambered up the trunk and then ventured into the branches Tarzanlike in a valiant and daring attempt to help.