different between spaniel vs spaniard
spaniel
English
Etymology
From Middle English spaynol, from Old French espaigneul (modern French épagneul), from Old Occitan espaignol, from Vulgar Latin *Hisp?niolus (“Spanish”), from Hisp?nia (“Spain”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?spænj?l/
- Rhymes: -ænj?l
Noun
spaniel (plural spaniels)
- 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.
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Dutch: spaniël
Translations
Verb
spaniel (third-person singular simple present spaniels, present participle spanielling or spanieling, simple past and past participle spanielled or spanieled)
- To follow loyally or obsequiously, like a spaniel.
- 1606: Shakespeare, William, The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra
- Antony: Do we shake hands.—All come to this!—The hearts / That spaniel'd me at heels, to whom I gave / Their wishes, do discandy, melt their sweets
- J. Sedgewick (1840) Timon, but not of Athens, page 200: “Always spanielling at the heels of power, the mitred Dignitaries displayed, from first to last, the most rancorous hostility against her.”
- David S. Bell (2000) Presidential Power in Fifth Republic France, ?ISBN, page 30: “Hence Duverger's famous question about de Gaulle's first spanielling Prime Minister makes political ('M. Debré, existe-t-il?'), but not constitutional sense.”
- Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn (2003) The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction, ?ISBN, page 65:
- The genre which differed from the world in order to advocate a better one - or the genre which spanielled at heel the sensationalist virtual reality world we will now arguably inhabit till the planet dies - had become by 2000, in triumpth or defeat or both, an institution for the telling of story.
- 1606: Shakespeare, William, The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra
Anagrams
- Espinal, Lapines, Nepalis, alpines, pin seal, pineals, pinseal, pleasin', splenia
Portuguese
Noun
spaniel m (plural spaniels)
- A spaniel (any of several dog breeds bred to flush out game)
Spanish
Noun
spaniel m (plural spaniels or spaniel)
- a spaniel
Swedish
Noun
spaniel c
- A spaniel.
Anagrams
- apelsin, spela in
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