Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A dog of a small breed developed in Germany for hunting badgers, having a long body, a brown or black-and-brown coat, drooping ears, and very short legs. Dachshunds are bred in long-haired, smooth-coat, wire-haired, and miniature varieties, sometimes considered separate breeds.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The German badger-dog; a breed of short-legged, long-bodied dogs used to draw or bait badgers.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (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.
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- noun A certain
breed ofdog havingshort legs and along trunk , includingminiature ,long-haired , and short-haired varieties.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun 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
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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My almost 19 year old dachshund is used to traveling with me and does not need any tranquillizer.
Air travel with cats 2005
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Edward is a dachshund, which is sometimes referred to as a sausage or wiener dog.
Hydrangea Galore 2005
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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 -
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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
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Until the other day, it never occurred to me that "dachshund" was any different.
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One of the boarders was telling a story in which a "dachshund" figured.
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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.
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Enjoy fun contests such as dachshund races, bier barrel bowling, a German Idol yodeling contest, a German spelling bee and more. venue.
bilby commented on the word dachshund
"A little dog, half-a-dog high and a dog-and-a-half long."
- Mary Ellen Herbert.
September 9, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word dachshund
"The World as My Dachshund Sees It."
August 12, 2009
bilby commented on the word dachshund
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.
September 11, 2010