Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A small dog of a breed developed in Germany for hunting badgers and having a long body, a usually shorthaired brown or black and brown coat, drooping ears, and very short legs.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The German badger-dog; a breed of short-legged, long-bodied dogs used to draw or bait badgers.
Wiktionary
- n. A certain breed of dog having short legs and a long trunk, including miniature, long-haired, and short-haired varieties.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) One of a breed of small dogs with short crooked legs, and long body; -- called also
badger dog . There are two kinds, the rough-haired and the smooth-haired.
WordNet 3.0
- n. small long-bodied short-legged German breed of dog having a short sleek coat and long drooping ears; suited for following game into burrows
Etymologies
- German Dachs ("badger") + Hund ("dog") (Wiktionary)
- German : Dachs, badger (from Middle High German dahs, from Old High German) + Hund, dog (from Middle High German hunt, from Old High German). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“My almost 19 year old dachshund is used to traveling with me and does not need any tranquillizer.”
“Edward is a dachshund, which is sometimes referred to as a sausage or wiener dog.”
“Dogs of every description from the poodle to the St. Bernard and from the wolfhound to the half-breed dachshund, which is half German and half Bolshevik and looks the part.”
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“I think, coming from a dachshund, that is pretty -”
“Next Page 1 | 2 Previous Page In Laura Nichols 'Maplewood, N.J., home, Poochie the dachshund is a hot”
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“- One ounce of cheddar cheese fed to a dachshund is the equivalent of an average woman eating two and a half hamburgers”
“Until the other day, it never occurred to me that "dachshund" was any different.”
“One of the boarders was telling a story in which a "dachshund" figured.”
“It’s raining here this morning, just a light rain instead of the toad strangler we had two days ago, and mercifully no lightning — our dachshund is a huge baby during storms.”
“Enjoy fun contests such as dachshund races, bier barrel bowling, a German Idol yodeling contest, a German spelling bee and more. venue.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dachshund’.
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Genes
Interesting gene names. Some of these may have changed recently (to something less offensive/funny).
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tinman, agnostic, dreadlocks, Van Gogh, fruitless, lava lamp, ariadne, cheap date, ken and barbie, I'm not dead yet, I'm not dead yet 2, manic fringe and 1192 more... -
dogs and their relatives
dog dogs and more dogs anything
I can think of ,canids and their
relatives
my favourite African wild dog
all have 42 teethaffenpinscher, akita, alan, aland, alant, alopecoid, apso, bandog, barbet, basenji, basset, bawtie and 355 more...
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Tricky Words from German
Loanwords from German -- some established, some wet behind the ears -- that are difficult to spell, pronounce, or remember.
Torschlusspanik, Fräulein, weltanschauung, Weltschmerz, sprachgefühl, schadenfreude, katzenjammer, Radfahrer, gemütlich, zeitgeist, gesellschaft, gemeinschaft and 48 more...
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Dachshund
Words to describe a dachshund.
doxie, daks, dachshund, teckel, bassotto, panzerino, mini-dachs, dackel, wiener dog, hot dog dog, low rider, kraut dog
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Dog Breeds according to Simon & Schus...
yugoslavian trico..., yugoslavian mount..., yorkshire terrier, xoloitzcuintle, whippet, wetterhoun, westphalian basset, west highland whi..., welsh terrier, welsh springer sp..., welsh corgi, weimaraner and 121 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, D
dodecahedron, din, diglyceride, dysphotopsia, decoction, deboss, diatonic, dithyramb, divagate, discalced, dishdasha, daft and 281 more...
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Spelling Bee list 2011
Abalone, ablution, absolution, aboriginally, abstemious, academician, acclamation, accommodation, acculturation, acetic, acetone, acme and 590 more...
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words from the German
kindergarten, sturm und drang, schadenfreude, zeppelin, blitzkreig, blitz, krieg, panzer, angst, nazi, zeitgeist, doppelganger and 107 more...
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German Spelling Bee List
need to learn these words!!!!!!!!
angst, haversack, hinterland, streusel, eiderdown, kohlrabi, autobahn, gestalt, gestapo, echt, feldspar, spareribs and 67 more...
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Loanwords of German origin, so-called 'untranslatable' words, compound words, slang, and words which I (dis)like immensely.
verarschen, blitz, rucksack, hinterland, kindergarten, weltanschauung, treppenwitz, drachenfutter, torschlusspanik, katzenjammer, gedankenexperiment, frauenzimmer and 66 more...
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Animal Crackers
camel, dromedary, cabbit, doglet, wren, lynx, ermine, capybara, magpie, mallard, heron, loach and 33 more...
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dog words
cynic, cynosure, procyon, sirius, quinsy, hound, dachshund, keeshond, corgi, canaille, canary, canicular and 14 more...
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ninjapirate's Words
explosive, cesium, elevator, dachshund, sandwich, automobile
Tweets
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bilby There was a 'Puppies for Sale' notice pinned up on the board at my local shopping centre. It offered 6 week old Dashhound x puppies. A peeved speller had crossed out dashhound and written Dachund. Sep 11, 2010
chained_bear "The World as My Dachshund Sees It." Aug 12, 2009
bilby "A little dog, half-a-dog high and a dog-and-a-half long."
- Mary Ellen Herbert. Sep 9, 2008