spaniel

span·iel

S0601900 (spăn′yəl)n.1. Any of several breeds of small-sized to medium-sized dogs, usually having drooping ears, short legs, and a wavy, silky coat.2. A docile or servile person.

[Middle English spainol, from Old French espaignol, Spaniard, Spanish dog, from Vulgar Latin *Hispāniōlus, Spanish, from Hispānia, Spain.]

spaniel

(ˈspænjəl) n1. (Breeds) any of several breeds of gundog with long drooping ears, a silky coat, and formerly a docked tail. See clumber spaniel, cocker spaniel, field spaniel, springer spaniel, Sussex spaniel, water spaniel2. (Breeds) either of two toy breeds of spaniel. See King Charles spaniel3. an obsequiously devoted person[C14: from Old French espaigneul Spanish (dog), from Old Provençal espanhol, ultimately from Latin Hispāniolus Spanish]

span•iel

(ˈspæn yəl)

n. 1. any of several breeds of small or medium-sized sporting dogs usu. having long, drooping ears and a long, silky coat with feathering on the legs and tail. 2. a submissive, fawning, or cringing person. [1350–1400; Middle English spaynel < Old French espaignol Spanish (dog), probably directly < Sp español Spanish]

Thesaurus

Noun

spaniel - any of several breeds of small to medium-sized gun dogs with a long silky coat and long frilled earsgun dog, sporting dog - a dog trained to work with sportsmen when they hunt with gunsBrittany spaniel - tall active short-tailed French breed of bird dog having a usually smooth orange- or liver-and-white coatclumber, clumber spaniel - a thickset spaniel with longish silky hairfield spaniel - large usually black hunting and retrieving spaniel with a dense flat or slightly wavy coat; cross between cocker and Sussex spanielspringer spaniel, springer - a large spaniel with wavy silky coat usually black or liver and whitecocker, cocker spaniel, English cocker spaniel - a small breed with wavy silky hair; originally developed in EnglandSussex spaniel - an English breed with short legs and a golden liver-colored coatwater spaniel - any dog of two large curly-coated breeds used for hunting waterfowl

Translations

拍马屁者长毛垂耳狗

spaniel

(ˈspӕnjəl) noun a breed of dog with large ears which hang down. 长毛垂耳狗

spaniel

→ 拍马屁者zhCN

spaniel

spaniel:

see sporting dogsporting dog,
classification used by breeders and kennel clubs to designate dogs bred for pointing, flushing, and retrieving game. These dogs hunt by air scent—as opposed to most hounds, which are ground scenters—and their quarry is primarily game birds.
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classification used by breeders and kennel clubs to designate very small breeds of dogs kept as pets. Some are selectively bred diminutive forms of larger breeds and others are naturally small.
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Spaniel

any one of several breeds of hunting dogs. Spaniels are used for hunting game birds in marshy places and in dense thickets. The dogs are native to Spain, where they have been known since the 15th century. Modern spaniel breeds, for example, the cocker spaniel, springer spaniel, field spaniel, and Norfolk spaniel, were developed in Great Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries. In the USSR a local type of spaniel was developed from the cocker spaniel.

Spaniels are distinguished by a keen sense of smell and good vision. They have a developed instinct for scenting and flushing out birds, then finding the dead bird and retrieving it. Spaniels have a rather large body, short legs, a relatively long head, and long, pendant ears. The tail is docked to half its original length. The coat is long, straight, and soft; the coloring may be black, various shades of red, cinnamon-brown, or white, with speckles and spots of the same colors. The height at the withers is 36–44 cm. The spaniel’s beautiful appearance and even temperament have made it a popular house pet. In Great Britain a number of pet breeds have been developed, for example, the King Charles spaniel and English toy spaniel, whose height at the withers is 18–22 cm.

A. P. MAZOVER

spaniel

1. any of several breeds of gundog with long drooping ears, a silky coat, and formerly a docked tail 2. either of two toy breeds of spaniel: see King Charles spaniel

spaniel

Related to spaniel: cocker spaniel

noun

Words related to spaniel

noun any of several breeds of small to medium-sized gun dogs with a long silky coat and long frilled ears

Related Words

gun dog
sporting dog
Brittany spaniel
clumber
clumber spaniel
field spaniel
springer spaniel
springer
cocker
cocker spaniel
English cocker spaniel
Sussex spaniel
water spaniel