WordNet
n. a terrier with wiry hair [syn: wirehair, wire-haired terrier]
Usage examples of "wirehaired terrier".
A small dog, a wirehaired terrier, came slowly round the chairs, with twitching nose, and sniffed at Reggie and whimpered.
I dreamed a fellow asked me if I wanted a dog and I said yeah, I'd like to have a dog and he went off and came back with a little black dog with stiff black gold-tipped hair and sad eyes that looked something like a wirehaired terrier.
He read all the society columns, and the only episode of his burglarious past to which in his present saved condition he could look back with real pleasure was the occasion when he had got in through a scullery window belonging to a countess in her own right and had been bitten in the seat of his trousers by what virtually amounted to a titled wirehaired terrier.