dachshund

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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noun small long-bodied short-legged German breed of dog having a short sleek coat and long drooping ears; suited for following game into burrows

From German Dachshund (“badger dog”); Dachs (“badger”) + Hund (“dog”).

His dachshund coat becomes a brown mortuary habit. — Ulysses, James Joyce
“That's my uncle Ethelbert's dachshund,” he remarked, at the beginning of the lecture. — Penrod, Booth Tarkington
If mere quaintness of design be desired, is there not already the Dachshund! — Three men on the bummel, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

dachsie, badger dog

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