whippet

From whipped cream, since "whippits" are typically sold in the United States for use in making whipped cream.

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-whippet.wav

I was smoking hash from under glasses, sniffing glue, doing whippets, popping speed, smoking pot, dropping acid, and occasionally shooting dope.

2004, Sandra P. Riggin, Forbidden Memories: A Journey of Healing, →ISBN:

(slang) A cartridge of nitrous oxide (laughing gas), used as a recreational inhalant drug.


greyhound

From Old English grīġhund, from a cognate or borrowing of Old Norse grøy (“bitch”) (whence Icelandic grey, thus not related to the colour grey) plus hund (“hound”). Altered by folk etymology to appear to be grey + hound.

Her young heart was full of love; and a world of kindly feelings were wasted on her delicate greyhound, her bright winged birds, and her favourite flowers.

1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 127:

A lean breed of dog used in hunting and racing.


borzoi

Borrowed from Russian борзо́й (borzój), from бо́рзый (bórzyj, “swift”), from Proto-Indo-European *mréǵʰus (whence English brief, brace and merry).

Pia loves Rob, she had written it with her lipstick on the walls of the vespasienne in the Rue Colombe, waiting for him to finish, holding her pampered borzoi on the leash.

1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 171:

A dog of a particular breed, similar in shape to a greyhound but with longer silkier hair.


Azawakh

A sighthound bred in Western Africa around Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso.


gazehound

PIE word
 *ḱwṓ
From gaze (noun) + hound.

Coordinate term: scent hound

And foresters, in green-wood trim, / Lead in the leash the gaze-hounds grim, / Attentive, as the bratchet's bay / From the dark covert drove the prey, / To slip them as he broke away.

1808 February 22, Walter Scott, “Introduction to Canto Second: To the Rev. John Marriot, M.A.”, in Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field, Edinburgh: […] J[ames] Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company, […]; London: William Miller, and John Murray, →OCLC, page 61:

I entered the house with some wrath upon me at seeing the gazehounds in the yard; for it seems a cruel thing to me to harass the birds in the breeding-time.

1869, R[ichard] D[oddridge] Blackmore, chapter XXII, in Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor. […], volume I, London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, […], →OCLC, page 250:

Synonym of sighthound (“a hound that primarily hunts by sight and speed, instead of by scent and endurance”).


sighthound

Coordinate term: scent hound

A hound that primarily hunts by sight and speed, instead of by scent and endurance.


Saluki

(cynology) An ancient sighthound breed of dog with a silky coat originating in the Middle East, once sacred to the Egyptians.


Afghan Hound

A sighthound bred in Afghanistan to hunt hare and gazelle.


Thai Ridgeback

A sighthound bred in what is now Thailand.


Irish wolfhound

en-noun

Irish wolfhound (plural Irish wolfhounds)

The Irish wolfhound is the official mascot of The Irish Guards and The Royal Irish Regiment.

The largest sighthound and tallest dog on average, bred in Ireland to hunt wolves


Scottish Deerhound

Scottish Deerhound (plural Scottish Deerhounds)

A large sighthound bred in Scotland to hunt deer.


Russian Wolfhound

Russian Wolfhound (plural Russian Wolfhounds)


kangaroo dog

A good dog of this kind is valuable; but we meet with so many cross-bred mongrels, that half the dogs which are called kangaroo-hounds are hardly worth their keep; and I do think a lazy, half-starved, good-for-nothing kangaroo-dog is the biggest loafer one can see about a tent.

1861, Horace William Wheelwright, Bush Wanderings of a Naturalist:

He was as concerned as a rabbit when it is cornered by a kangaroo dog.

1986, Bruce Pascoe, “The Slaughters of the Bulumwaal Butcher”, in Heiss & Minter, editor, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin, published 2008, page 103:

(Australia) A dog used to hunt kangaroos; (specifically), a breed of dog for this purpose, developed in Australia from the Scottish deerhound and the greyhound.


Italian sighthound

Italian sighthound (plural Italian sighthounds)

Italian greyhound
Italian greyhound#English


Italian greyhound

Italian greyhound (plural Italian greyhounds)