Spitzn.

Brit.

/spɪts/, U.S.

/spɪts/

Etymology: German (also spitzhund), special use of spitz pointed, peaked.

A dog belonging to one of a group of northern breeds distinguished by thick fur, a pointed muzzle, pricked ears, and a tail curled over the back. Also attributive, as Spitz dog.

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Spitz1842

1842 H. Stanley Let. 18 July in N. Mitford Ladies of Alderley (1938) 38 In this town [sc. Ems] wherever you go you see a white Spitz dog with a curly tail & black eyes.

1845 Zoologist 3 1104 The prevalence of the Spitz in Europe would readily account for such a combination.

1883 Cent. Mag. Apr. 911/1 Madonna was occupied with a spitz, holding it at one minute and pulling it by the tail the next.

1897 Private Life of Queen xviii. 147 The perky little tan-coloured German Spitz-dog, ‘Marco’.

a1910 ‘O. Henry’ Rolling Stones (1912) 181 Six burglars..bore away..a five-hundred-dollar prize Spitz dog.

1948 C. L. B. Hubbard in B. Vesey-Fitzgerald Bk. Dog ii. 517 The Spitz of the Asiatic sphere shew considerable variation, and are consequently divided into many well-defined breeds. These are collectively known as Laiki, and each Laika is called (in most cases) after its province or its people.

1978 Times 11 Feb. 2/4 The Japanese spitz, a small, white prick-eared creature like an undernourished Samoyed, appeared at Crufts for the first time.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

A small sputtering fire-ball made from wetted gunpowder. Also elliptically spitz.

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spitz-devil1880

1880 W. Carnegie Pract. Trapping 15 Light it, and place it in the hole instead of the spitz.

1880 W. Carnegie Pract. Trapping 16 After having made a ‘spitz devil’, as we called it at school, light it in the hole.

单词	spitz
释义	Spitzn. Brit. /spɪts/, U.S. /spɪts/ Etymology: German (also spitzhund), special use of spitz pointed, peaked. A dog belonging to one of a group of northern breeds distinguished by thick fur, a pointed muzzle, pricked ears, and a tail curled over the back. Also attributive, as Spitz dog. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > other types of dog > [noun] > Spitz Spitz1842 1842 H. Stanley Let. 18 July in N. Mitford Ladies of Alderley (1938) 38 In this town [sc. Ems] wherever you go you see a white Spitz dog with a curly tail & black eyes. 1845 Zoologist 3 1104 The prevalence of the Spitz in Europe would readily account for such a combination. 1883 Cent. Mag. Apr. 911/1 Madonna was occupied with a spitz, holding it at one minute and pulling it by the tail the next. 1897 Private Life of Queen xviii. 147 The perky little tan-coloured German Spitz-dog, ‘Marco’. a1910 ‘O. Henry’ Rolling Stones (1912) 181 Six burglars..bore away..a five-hundred-dollar prize Spitz dog. 1948 C. L. B. Hubbard in B. Vesey-Fitzgerald Bk. Dog ii. 517 The Spitz of the Asiatic sphere shew considerable variation, and are consequently divided into many well-defined breeds. These are collectively known as Laiki, and each Laika is called (in most cases) after its province or its people. 1978 Times 11 Feb. 2/4 The Japanese spitz, a small, white prick-eared creature like an undernourished Samoyed, appeared at Crufts for the first time. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > as lemmas spitz A small sputtering fire-ball made from wetted gunpowder. Also elliptically spitz. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > firework > [noun] > made from damp gunpowder peeoy1822 spitz-devil1880 1880 W. Carnegie Pract. Trapping 15 Light it, and place it in the hole instead of the spitz. 1880 W. Carnegie Pract. Trapping 16 After having made a ‘spitz devil’, as we called it at school, light it in the hole. extracted from spitz-deviln. < n.1842 as lemmas
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