单词 | retrieverish |
释义 | retrieverishadj. rare. Of a dog: resembling a retriever. ΚΠ c1858 G. F. Atkinson Curry & Rice (text accompanying Plate 24) Spaniels, with retrieverish and retrogressive tendencies. 1909 H. G. Wells Tono-Bungay (U.K. ed.) iii. ii. 243 There were two or three fox-terriers, a retrieverish mongrel, and an old, bloody-eyed, and very evil-smelling St. Bernard. 2008 Irish Times (Nexis) 22 Mar. (Weekend) 13 He feels a deep connection with a ‘retrieverish’ dog on a Mexico street and frets for a long time after that he did not take her home. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.c1858 |
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