different between dachshund vs beagle

English

Alternative forms

• dachshunde, dachshound

Etymology

Borrowed from German Dachshund (“badger dog”); Dachs (“badger”) +? Hund (“dog”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d??ks.?h?nd/, /?dæks.?h?nd/, /?dæk.s?nd/
• (US) enPR: /däks?-ho?ont'/, /d?ks?-ho?ond'/, IPA^(key): /?d?ks.?h?nt/, /?dæks.?h?nd/, /?d?k.s?nd/

Noun

dachshund (plural dachshunds or dachshunde)

1. A certain breed of dog having short legs and a long trunk, including miniature, long-haired, and short-haired varieties.

Synonyms

• sausage dog
• wiener dog

Translations

See also

• chondrodystrophic
• dwarf
• degenerative disk disease

Portuguese

Noun

dachshund m, f (plural dachshunds)

1. dachshund (breed of dog)

   Synonym: bassê

Spanish

Noun

dachshund m (plural dachshunds)

1. dachshund

English

Etymology

Origin uncertain, possibly a corruption of beadle in the sense of "constable, detective"; or alternatively from Middle French beegueule (“gaping throat, noisy person, whiner”), from Old French beer (variation of Old French bayer) + Old French gueule. The French bigle is from the English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [bi????]
• Rhymes: -i???l

Noun

beagle (plural beagles)

1. A small short-legged smooth-coated scenthound, often tricolored and sometimes used for hunting hares. Its friendly disposition makes it suitable as a family pet.
2. A person who snoops on others; a detective.
   • 2002, Susan Isaacs, Long Time No See, page 243

     […] whereas burying a body in the wooded area beyond the backyard was the quickest way to make a Nassau County Police Department beagle look good.

3. A bailiff.
4. A small kind of shark.

Translations

Verb

beagle (third-person singular simple present beagles, present participle beagling, simple past and past participle beagled)

1. To hunt with beagles.
   • 1933, Charles Pascoe Hawkes, Heydays: a salad of memories and impressions, page 20

     […] reading men who beagled for fresh air and exercise, impecunious hunting men who beagled for economy […]

2. To search.
   • 1997, Fletcher Pratt, A Short History of the Civil War: Ordeal by Fire, page 150

     […] Pope clapped his hand to his forehead and beagled like a maniac; he had clean forgotten Thorofare Gap.

Translations

Anagrams

• Belgae, glebae

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English beagle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bi???l/
• Hyphenation: bea?gle

Noun

beagle m (plural beagles, diminutive beagletje n)

1. beagle (hound)

Anagrams

• belage

Finnish

Noun

beagle

1. beagle (dog)

Declension

Compounds

• beagle-harrier
• elizabethinbeagle
• kerrynbeagle
• taskubeagle

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bi?l/

Noun

beagle m (plural beagles)

1. beagle (dog)

Portuguese

Noun

beagle m, f (plural beagles)

1. beagle (small breed of dog)

Spanish

Noun

beagle m (plural beagles)

1. beagle