Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A short-haired hunting dog of a breed originating in France and having a long body, short legs, and long drooping ears.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A long-bodied, short-legged breed of dogs, similar in build to the dachshund, but larger and heavier. The color varies, but it is frequently white with liver-colored or black blotches.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Zoöl.) A small kind of hound with a long body and short legs, used as an earth dog.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a short-legged breed of
dog of the hound family
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun smooth-haired breed of hound with short legs and long ears
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[French basset, short, basset hound, diminutive of basse, feminine of bas, low; see base.]
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From French basset ("basset hound"), nominalization of Old French adjective basset ("short-legged"), from bas ("short, low").
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