In working on a translaion I would like to know if "bissig und böss" could be interpreted as "caustic and naughty" in relations to animals?
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Can you please give more contexts for your problem and elaborate what you already know about those words (e.g., from a dictionary)? This may help your question being reopened.– Wrzlprmft ♦May 28, 2016 at 11:32
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Bissig relates to the verb "beissen" - So it's actually biting.
"Böss" should be "böse" - so "bad", or "evil" (your "naughty" is not wrong, though)
The whole thing, provided it relates to animals, as you said, thus is best translated to
biting and bad
In relation to humans, the translation would probably be a bit different, like
snappy and evil
