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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Colloquial a Pekingese.

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  • noun a Chinese breed of small short-legged dogs with a long silky coat and broad flat muzzle

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Examples

  • I've got a springer spaniel called Bracken, after Australian bowler Nathan Bracken, and a peke, Hoggard after England's Matthew Hoggard.

    Jonathan Agnew: 'I love winding up Geoffrey Boycott' William Skidelsky 2010

  • Hold in your head an approximate picture of the quantity of difference between a peke and a pye-dog.

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • If we imagine the sheer quantity of difference that separates a pye-dog from a peke, which took only a few centuries of evolution, how much longer is the time that separates us from the beginning of evolution or, say, from the beginning of the mammals?

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • If we imagine the sheer quantity of difference that separates a pye-dog from a peke, which took only a few centuries of evolution, how much longer is the time that separates us from the beginning of evolution or, say, from the beginning of the mammals?

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • Hold in your head an approximate picture of the quantity of difference between a peke and a pye-dog.

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • Editorial PS: I is alwaes sorree for teh peke-fase purshiuns an dis shows why.

    Flu Kitteh is in your haus - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • I also like the explanation of the seat in the parts list the most, which details a “peke devaunt” for elbow room, which turns out to be a “short beard trimmed to a pretty polywigge sparrows tayle peake.”

    Flushed W. Hodding Carter 2006

  • I also like the explanation of the seat in the parts list the most, which details a “peke devaunt” for elbow room, which turns out to be a “short beard trimmed to a pretty polywigge sparrows tayle peake.”

    Flushed W. Hodding Carter 2006

  • The peke had shed loose fur all over him, and he needed to be rid of it.

    Moon Dance Mariah Stewart 1999

  • The peke had shed loose fur all over him, and he needed to be rid of it.

    Moon Dance Mariah Stewart 1999

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