Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A dog belonging to any of several northern breeds, such as the Pomeranian or Samoyed, characterized by a long, thick, usually white coat, pointed muzzle and ears, and a tail curled over the back.
Wiktionary
- n. Any of several Nordic breeds of dog such as the Pomeranian or Samoyed
Etymologies
- German Spitz, from spitz, pointed, from Middle High German spiz, from Old High German spizzi. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“They shotgunned a few - just giver! we also ate dill pickle flavored spitz, which is my new favorite. also, we watched an old man, in a motorized wheel chair do laps around my neighborhood. when I say laps, I mean, like hundreds of fucking times around. every lap he'd stop at this one driveway, sit there for a second and then throw something.”
“It will be interesting to see whether the mutations which delete the midline structures, the ventral portion of the neuroectoderm and head in Drosophila, such as spitz and others (75), are homologous to the fish midline genes.”
Nobel Lecture The Identification Of Genes Controlling Development In Flies And Fishes
“Finnish Spitz: The national dog of Finland, this dog sounds like what a teutonic dentist might say, "Finish spitz?”
“Ai wuns saw wayr Janet Scott fot wun ov dem dat spitz poyzun n kilz.”
Release the Kraken! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“DNA analysis showed Loogie to be a bluetick-spitz mix.”
“He wuz a spitz-beegul cross an teh silliest lukin goggeh you ever saw, liek a footstool wif a curly spitz tail an a beegle hed.”
Dumb dog. I always hide in the - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“Aifinkso teh pore kitteh nawt memburz hur iz poyzun adn swallowd sum spitz when hur wuz grooming.”
I can’t go on any further……. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“We spitz on him an attaks wif all teh poynty enz, in eckstreemely painful plases!”
i srry…reely. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“Ai noes how ya feelz…mai werk chewed me upp an spitz me owt…nao Ai iz owttta werk, lukkin fur noo job..::::sighz::::::”
YOUR MAMA LOVES U - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“I spitz on him! an skratches him in tender plases!”
Lists
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Tweets
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chained_bear I always think of polar exploration when I think of Spitzbergen.
On the other hand, I always think of the nasty dog belonging to one of my former neighbors, or Olympic swimmers of the 1970s, when I think of spitz. May 18, 2009
nuxiy As in Spitzbergen May 18, 2009
yarb My mom made the neighbour's spitz her pal by poisoning it with the gin she sprinkled on the table scraps.
- William Gass, The Tunnel May 18, 2009