whippet

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Animals, Sportwhippetwhip‧pet /ˈwɪpɪt/ noun [countable] HBADSa small thin racing dog like a greyhoundExamples from the Corpuswhippet• A tangled ball of dried grass raced back towards Aulef like a whippet bound for home.• Nabokov, who is exceedingly peremptory with all translators of Flaubert, renders this as whippet.• He is telling Larry about his whippets.• It took forty-seven stitches to put that whippet back together but it lived.• I knew him once, I knew the whippets.• He ran, often, up the Heath with the whippets, in the deadest night.• Some men thought more about their whippets or their pigeons - they thought nowt of slinging the wife out on the street.Origin whippet (1600-1700) Probably from whip “to move quickly”

单词	whippet
释义	whippet From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Animals, Sportwhippetwhip‧pet /ˈwɪpɪt/ noun [countable] HBADSa small thin racing dog like a greyhoundExamples from the Corpuswhippet• A tangled ball of dried grass raced back towards Aulef like a whippet bound for home.• Nabokov, who is exceedingly peremptory with all translators of Flaubert, renders this as whippet.• He is telling Larry about his whippets.• It took forty-seven stitches to put that whippet back together but it lived.• I knew him once, I knew the whippets.• He ran, often, up the Heath with the whippets, in the deadest night.• Some men thought more about their whippets or their pigeons - they thought nowt of slinging the wife out on the street.Origin whippet (1600-1700) Probably from whip “to move quickly”
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