Spaniel

Word SPANIEL
Character 7
Hyphenation span iel
Pronunciations /ˈspænjəl/

Definitions and meanings of "Spaniel"

What do we mean by spaniel?

Any of several breeds of small-sized to medium-sized dogs, usually having drooping ears, short legs, and a wavy, silky coat. noun

A docile or servile person. noun

To fawn; cringe; be obsequious.

To follow like a spaniel.

A dog of a domestic breed, of medium and small sizes, with a long silky and usually curly coat, long, soft, drooping ears, feathered tail and stern, of docile, timid, and affectionate disposition, much used for sporting purposes and as pets. noun

Figuratively, a mean, cringing, fawning person; a blindly submissive follower: from the characteristics of the spaniel in relation to its master, or when in a state of fear. noun

Like a spaniel; fawningly submissive; mean; servile; cringing.

One of a breed of small dogs having long and thick hair and large drooping ears. The legs are usually strongly feathered, and the tail bushy. See Illust. under clumber, and cocker. noun

A cringing, fawning person. noun

To follow like a spaniel. transitive verb

Cringing; fawning. adjective

To fawn; to cringe; to be obsequious. intransitive verb

Any of various small breeds of gun dog having a broad muzzle, long, wavy fur and long ears that hang at the side of the head, bred for flushing and retrieving game. noun

To follow loyally, like a spaniel. verb

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

Any of various small to medium-sized breeds of gun dog having a broad muzzle, long, wavy fur and long ears that hang at the side of the head, bred for flushing and retrieving game.

A cringing, fawning person.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Spaniel

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The word "spaniel" in example sentences

I think you chose a great breed for training as the Boykin spaniel is very smart dog (not biased or anything). ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Boykin spaniel is the state dog of South Carolina. ❋ Unknown (2009)

My eight year old daughter with our eight month old Boykin spaniel ❋ Unknown (2009)

I can upland hunt with a lab or a chessie or a boykin, but I'm not dumb enough to suggest a retriever or a flushing spaniel is as good a pure bird finder as a brit, a setter or a pointer. ❋ Unknown (2009)

With my dad's old boykin spaniel, we had pretty much set ourselves up for failure because we didn't have a set plan, but everything ended up working out anyhow. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Along with the Boykin spaniel and the American water spaniel, it's a uniquely American dog. ❋ Dave Hurteau (2008)

She’s a 12-week-old Boykin spaniel who, if I don’t ruin her in the training process, will be retrieving doves by September and ducks by the fall. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This fit the description of a Cavalier King Charles spaniel, which is a toy breed. ❋ Stanley Coren (2010)

The spaniel was a generic term used to describe a type of dog. ❋ Ann Althouse (2009)

Though, truly, in spite of its bright glass eyes, the spaniel was the least successful assumption in the collection: being perfectly flat, and dismally suggestive of a recent mistake in sitting down on the part of some corpulent member of the family. ❋ Unknown (2007)

If that is so, rabbits, bushes, dogs, soldiers — the whole of that romantic and pleasant picture, must be dismissed from the mind; and we must simply suppose that the Spaniel is called a spaniel because Spain is called Espa馻. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The tobacco-plant consoled me when I was depressed; and the affection of my spaniel was a compensation for the loss of human sympathy and society. ❋ Various (N/A)

If anyone thinks that I occupied what the XVIIIth century people were wont to call the spaniel position to Lord Cromer, they are mistaken. ❋ Strachey, John St Loe (1922)

The spaniel was a great bore, begging and doing small tricks first at one and then at the other of us. ❋ Unknown (1906)

My father didnt want me to grow up a broken-spirited spaniel, which is your idea of a man, I suppose. ❋ George Bernard Shaw (1903)

Her spaniel is a gay playfellow, -- a beautiful creature, with long silky hair and drooping ears. ❋ Unknown (1893)

Cross Reference for Spaniel

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