dachshunde

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A form of dachshund — A certain breed of dog having short legs and a long trunk, including standard-sized, miniature (smooth-haired, long-haired, and short-haired) varieties.

Scrabble 20

Meanings

dachshunde1

noun
  1. obsoletepluralplural of dachshund

    4) The dog is a dachshund, true. But didn’t someone say that “one cannot indict a whole race . . . of dachshunde”? / 5) There are plenty of dachshunde here in America and elsewhere, who have proven to be excellent dachshunde indeed.

    1945, Belgium, volume 6, page 129, column 1
    2 more examples

    The winning dachshund, Waldmann I., had no opposition. […] Mr. James Mortimer, Babylon, N., Y., mastiffs, great Danes, bulldogs, bull terriers, fox-terriers, collies, greyhounds, deerhounds, wolfhounds, bloodhounds, English foxhounds and dachshunde.

    1890, Forest and Stream. A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun, volume XXXV, pages 152, column 3; 172, columns 2–3

    No. I don't believe it. That has got to be a cover-up for the long "Ultra Streng Geheim" fact that German sub skippers took their dachshunde to sea with them. I never heard that His Majesty or Uncle Sam had to build kennels for their magnetic compasses.

    2005 April 5, Eugene Griessel, “Bloody silly U-boat question ....”, in sci.military.naval (Usenet), archived from the original on 06 Oct 2025
noundachshunde (plural dachshundes)

plural dachshundes

  1. obsoleteObsolete form of dachshund.

    Another dog belonging to the same owner, a dachshunde, presented the same symptoms at about the same time.

    1906, American Veterinary Medical Association, American Veterinary Review, volume 30, page 860
    2 more examples

    […] C. H. Chamberlain, shepherds; Mrs. C. A. Latham, Boston terriers and bulldogs; Henry Oppenheimer, all sporting dogs, with the exception of beagles and dachshundes, all non-sporting not otherwise placed, and groups three, four and five; Earl C. Kruger, working dogs, excepting collies and shepherds, all terriers, all toys and groups, one, two and six; Mrs. Grayce Greenburg, beagles, dachshunde, French […]

    1930, The Dog Fancier, volume 39, page 5, column 3

    My responsibility was not to consider past performance or past condition; it was not to select the best dachshunde on a basis of reputation in interbreed competition; it was not to yield to a very genuine and deepseated fondness for a wonderful canine personality, and recall times such as a June evening in 1938 when a dachshunde I had placed best-of-breed at Onondaga that morning, most engagingly distracted me from impromptu culinary operations in a cottage on the shore of Lake Cayuga …

    1940, “Record Westminster Dachshunde Entry”, in Dog World: The Complete All-breed Magazine, volume 25, “Judge’s Comments”, page 54, column 2

Dachshunde2

noun
  1. obsoletepluralplural of Dachshund

Origin

dachshunde · noun, noun

  1. GermanDachshunde
  2. Englishdachshunde

(plural): From German Dachshunde, plural of Dachshund.

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Dachshunde · noun

  1. GermanDachshunde
  2. GermanDachshunde
  3. EnglishDachshunde

Borrowed from German Dachshunde.

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