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US
/ˈspænjəɫ/
]
[ UK /spˈænjəl/ ]
[ UK /spˈænjəl/ ]
NOUN
- any of several breeds of small to medium-sized gun dogs with a long silky coat and long frilled ears
How To Use spaniel In A Sentence
- Which one do you want, the spaniel with the crown or the bug-eyed chihuahua?
- Well-known breeds -- including dachshunds, poodles and collies -- will participate, as well as breeds you'll seldom see outside a dog show, such as the Chinese crested, Tibetan spaniel and spinone Italiano. Post-gazette.com - News
- As the fisherman approaches, the falconer's spaniels look enquiringly at each other, and his whippet, all four paws at attention, stares respectfully at such an admirable salmon.
- The cocker spaniel puppy stopped abruptly, then eyed the spinning leaf overhead.
- With pure-bred pups selling for as much as £500, dealing involving Labradors, Shih Tzus, German Shepherds, Spaniels and other breeds brought in from Ireland and Eastern Europe is a growing, multimillion-pound business.
- For example in Sweden, more than one-third of English Springer Spaniels are diagnosed with mammary tumours, analogous to breast cancers in humans.
- I've got a springer spaniel called Bracken, after Australian bowler Nathan Bracken, and a peke, Hoggard after England's Matthew Hoggard. Jonathan Agnew: 'I love winding up Geoffrey Boycott'
- She stoops over her heavy tambour frame, at work that fascinates her black spaniel dog, which stands with its forepaws on the front bar to watch her dexterity.
- The Bloodhound can track a scent better, a German Shepherd guards better, a Greyhound is faster, and the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel fits much better on your lap than a Timber Wolf ever can!
- In Fairview, N.C., clumber spaniel owner Kim Smith McLendon would do whatever was necessary to make sure her dogs were taken care of. Creature Comforts