Small long-bodied short-legged German breed of dog having a short sleek coat and long drooping ears; suited for following game into burrows.
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Examples for "dachshund"
Examples for "dachshund"
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A dachshund has absolutely no sense of humour or lightness of spirits.
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Carter had a theory that she slipped them under a dachshund's collar.
3
Closing the door, she reached over to rub the dachshund's russet head.
4
I read that Jeep's dog and a little wire-haired dachshund found Hitchens.
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The little dachshund came scampering into the shop and frisked about my feet.
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Slightly older than Ifor, he had much about him of a good badger dog.
2
Dachshund means " badger dog," and it is a title fairly and squarely earned in his native Germany.
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In fact, that's what they were originally bred for; " badger dog," that's what dachshund means in German.