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. 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 (from Middle High German dahs, from Old High German; see teks- in Indo-European roots) + Hund, dog (from Middle High German hunt, from Old High German; see kwon- in Indo-European roots).
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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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
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