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Small slender dog of greyhound type developed in England
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whippet
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The Whippet (also English Whippet or Snap dog ) is a dog breed of medium-size. They are a sighthound breed that originated in England , where they descended from greyhounds . Whippets today still strongly resemble a smaller greyhound. Shown in the Hound ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A tangled ball of dried grass raced back towards Aulef like a whippet bound for home. ▪ He is telling Larry about his whippets. ▪ He ran, often, up the Heath with the whippets, in the deadest night. ▪ I knew him once, I knew ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
small, fast type of dog, c.1600, probably from whip (v.) in the sense of "move quickly" + diminutive suffix -et . Used earlier (1540s) in reference to "a brisk, nimble woman."
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n. small slender dog of greyhound type developed in England
Usage examples of whippet.
I expected, and Gilbert Whippet of all people thrust a pale face out into the moonlight.
A great deal of what Whippet had said about anonymous letters was true.
Poppy took to her bed, and even Whippet was more solicitous than I had supposed possible.
I took the risk and transferred the honour which I had been reserving for Whippet to himself.
I was so beside myself that I should have charged in and taken what was coming to me, but it was Whippet who kept his head.
Gilbert Whippet, of the Mutual Ordered Life Endowment Company, sometimes called the M.
He took one step back, the reflex step of a man already dead, and crumpled to the floor almost as soundlessly as he had been advancing towards me, the whippet still clutched in his hand.
At night by the fireside, with the pet whippet lying before the hearth and the sea-sound booming beyond the walls, Ashalind regaled her hosts with all the gestes and songs she could recall.
Rounding a mullock heap, she beheld the white whippet from the cottage of the Caidens.
She dared not look back, but it seemed as if the Hunt must be almost on her shoulders, when without warning the whippet disappeared into a hole in a hillock.
Judith left the chamber with her two servants at her heels and a slender whippet slinking behind.
Gilbert Whippet bent over Tonker, who was sitting happily in the darkness.
The first armored vehicle the Provisional Government received was a Rolls-Royce Whippet with a rotating turret containing a Vickers machine gun.
The Whippet was delivered to Portobello Barracks in Dublin, but within a matter of days was sent to Limerick on a training and reconnaissance mission.
On its return trip to Dublin the Whippet stopped at Templemore Barracks for refueling.