stot

en-verb

stot (third-person singular simple present stots, present participle stotting or stottin, simple past and past participle stotted)

stots (present singular third-person)
stotting (participle present)
stottin (participle present)
stotted (participle past)
stotted (past)

‘I've plenty of money in my bank – and I have my cheque book here – could one of you cash a cheque for five pounds? – I promise it won't stot.’

1996, Alasdair Gray, “Lack of Money”, in Every Short Story 1951-2012, Canongate, published 2012, page 285:

(intransitive, Scotland and Northern England) To bounce, rebound or ricochet.

(transitive, Scotland and Northern England) To make bounce, rebound or ricochet.

(transitive, Scotland and Northern England) To stumble.

This vigorous and conspicuous leaping in front of a predator is analogous to bird alarm calls, in that it seems to warn companions of danger while apparently calling the predator’s attention to the stotter himself. We have a responsibility to explain stotting Tommies and all similar phenomena, and this is something I am going to face in later chapters.

1976, Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, Kindle edition, OUP Oxford, published 2016, page 14:

(intransitive, zoology, of quadrupeds) To leap using all four legs at once.


cocker

From cock (“a male bird, especially a rooster”) and its derivative cocking (“the hunting of gamecocks”), + -er (occupational suffix) or + -er (agent noun suffix).

(colloquial) A cocker spaniel, either of two breeds of dogs originally bred for hunting woodcocks.


pademelon

Although Pademelons are solitary and territorial by nature, it is not uncommon to witness small groups feeding in close proximity to one another.

2007, Scott Alexander King, Animal Dreaming: The Symbolic and Spiritual Language of the Australasian Animals, page 57:

Kangaroos and their relatives that live in the rainforest include pademelons, wallabies, and tree kangaroos. Pademelons are small kangaroo-like marsupials that prefer solitary nocturnal life in the rainforest.

2008, Barbara A. Holzman, Tropical Forest Biomes, page 122:

Pademelons are a distinct group of small wallabies, considerably smaller than both the giant kangaroos and the other, larger wallabies. When foraging slowly, pademelons usually move on all fours.

2013, Iain Campbell, Sam Woods, Wildlife of Australia, page 32:

Any species of the genus Thylogale of small macropods.


cetology

en-noun

cetology (usually uncountable, plural cetologies)

The branch of zoology concerned with the infraorder Cetacea, which includes whales, dolphins, and porpoises.


sounder

From Middle English soundar, sownere, equivalent to sound + -er.

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An instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.


Golden Retriever

Golden Retriever (plural Golden Retrievers)


Azawakh

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


native cat

1907, New South Wales Department of Agriculture, The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, Volume 17, page 154,
We have found the greatest enemies to be rats, native cats, hawks and crows.

The Native Cat, or Tjilpa, is not a real cat but a small marsupial (Dasyurus geoffreyi) with outsize whiskers and a banded tail held vertically above its back.

1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 290:

The mesonephros of the native cat is a functional excretory organ at birth which begins to degenerate on day 15 and is completely repressed by day 30 post partum. In this regard, the native cat does not differ markedly from other marsupials,[…].

1992, Acta Anatomica, volumes 143-144, page 341:

Widjingara, the native cat or quoll (Dasyurus hallucatus), made the spring by shaking his shoulders and flinging water from his fur.

2010, Robert Layton, Australian Rock Art: A New Synthesis, page 43:

(Australia) The quoll; any member of the genus Dasyurus of carnivorous marsupials.


sheepskin

sheepskin (countable and uncountable, plural sheepskins)

(countable or uncountable) The tanned skin of a sheep with the fleece left on, especially when used for clothing, rugs, etc.


wolf in sheep's clothing

wolf in sheep's clothing (plural wolves in sheep's clothing)

/ˈwʊlf ɪn ˈʃiːps ˈkləʊðɪŋ/

From Matthew 7:15 in the Bible (King James Version; spelling modernized): “Beware of false prophets which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.”

He ſaith, He doth not plead for all who go under the name of Miniſters in England; he fears there is many of them no better than Wolves in Sheep's Clothing, &c. Then why doth he not come out, and cry againſt them, but remain amongſt them in their Practice? For wherein can he clear himſelf of any one thing, which they are guilty of, which he confeſſes are Wolves in Sheep's Clothing? [...] I have as much ground to ſuſpect him to be one of the Wolves in Sheep's Clothing, as he has ground to ſuſpect his own Companions and Generation to be ſuch.

1659, Edward Burroughs [i.e., Edward Burrough], “Some of the Principles of the Quakers (Scornfully so Called by Men) Vindicated, and Proved Sound, and True, According to the Scriptures: …”, in The Memorable Works of a Son of Thunder and Consolation: […], [London]: [Ellis Hookes], published 1672, →OCLC, page 452:

If the wolf was to be feared, the learned gentleman might rest assured it would be the wolf in sheep's clothing, the masked pretender to patriotism. It was not from the fang of the lion, but from the tooth of the serpent, that reptile that insidiously steals upon the vitals of the constitution and gnaws it to the heart ere the mischief is suspected, that destruction was to be feared.

1785 February 9, Richard Brinsley Sheridan (Member of Parliament for Stafford), “[Proceedings relating to the Westminster Scrutiny]”, in [William Cobbett], editor, The Parliamentary History of England, from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803. […] (House of Commons of the United Kingdom), volume XXV, London: Printed by T[homas] C[urson] Hansard, […] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown; [et al.], published 1815, →OCLC, column 47:

The military power ſhould ever be kept diſtinct. We then ſee it, we know it by its proper name, we are on our guard, but when a power of a ſimilar kind intrudes itſelf upon us, under the name of a civil power, the wolf in ſheep's clothing deceives and endangers us.

1790 February 24, Arthur Browne, “[Committee on the bill to continue an act passed in the 27th year of his present majesty, entitled an act for the better execution of the law and preservation of the peace within counties at large]”, in The Parliamentary Register: Or, History of the Proceedings and Debates of the House of Commons of Ireland, […] (Irish House of Commons), volume X, Dublin: Printed by P. Byrne, […]; and J. Moore, […], →OCLC, page 310:

A deceitful man is a wolf in sheep's clothing. He will appear innocent, cheerful, polite, attentive, kind, obliging, and abjectly condescending; but let him once get you into his power and he becomes more ferocious, more cruel, and more destructive than the most savage animals that ever trod in deserts uninhabited by rational beings.

1806, Thoughts on Deceit, Margate, Kent: Printed by J. Warren, […], →OCLC, pages 15–16:

And if he preached other than the right doctrine, wherefore did his superiors in the Carthusian convent permit it? If the shepherds turn a wolf in sheep's clothing into the flock, they should not blame the sheep for being worried.

[1828 May 15, [Walter Scott], chapter II, in Chronicles of the Canongate. Second Series. […] (The Fair Maid of Perth), volume III, Edinburgh: […] [Ballantyne and Co.] for Cadell and Co.; London: Simpkin and Marshall, →OCLC, page 27:

[H]ere, then, was a community of good taste and kind feeling, no sharpers, no black-legs, no wolves in sheep's clothing.

1836 December 31, Laurie Todd, “Letter from Laurie Todd: Christmas and New-Year’s-Day”, in New-York Mirror, a Weekly Journal, Devoted to Literature and the Fine Arts, volume XIV, number 27, New York, N.Y.: Scott & Co., printers, →OCLC, page 211, column 1:

So the tales were told ages before Æsop: and asses under lion's manes roared in Hebrew; and sly foxes flattered in Etruscan; and wolves in sheep's clothing gnashed their teeth in Sanscrit, no doubt.

[1854, Arthur Pendennis [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], “The Overture—after which the Curtain Rises upon a Drinking Chorus”, in The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, volume I, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], →OCLC, page 4:

The larvae, it seemed, had "passed" as aphids. Like "wolves in sheep's clothing" they appeared to have fooled the guardians of their prey.

1978 February 17, Thomas Eisner, Karen Hicks, Maria Eisner, Douglas S. Robson, “‘Wolf-in-Sheep’s-Clothing’ Strategy of a Predaceous Insect Larva”, in Science, volume 199, number 4330, Washington, D.C.: American Association for the Advancement of Science, →DOI, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, →PMID, page 793, columns 1–2:

(idiomatic) Someone who or something which is harmful or threatening but disguised as something peaceful or pleasant.

King James Version
wolf in sheep's clothing

ujk me lëkurë qengji

someone or something harmful or threatening but disguised as something peaceful or pleasant

黃鼠狼給雞拜年——沒安好心 /黄鼠狼给鸡拜年——没安好心

huángshǔláng gěi jī bàinián, méi ān hǎoxīn

猫被り (ねこかぶり, nekokaburi, literally “pretending to be a cat”)


ancon

From Latin ancōn, from Ancient Greek ἀγκών (ankṓn, “bend, elbow, cranny”).


neddy

From Ned + -y, Ned being a diminutive of Edward.

Riding overland from Sydney to Brisbane, along the beautiful North Coast district of New South Wales, I tied my neddy up on the roadside and investigated a bark-shanty some little distance off in the Bush.

1919, Kilroy Harris, Outback in Australia […] , Garden City Press, page 3:

1932, Ion Idriess, The Desert Column, extracted in 2006, Rex Sadler, Tom Hayllar, In the Line of Fire: Real Stories of Australians at War, from Gallipoli to Vietnam, page 61,
Some of the boys whipped off their hats and laughingly smacked their neddies′ rumps, for we hated using spurs on the poor thirsty beggars.

From my uninformed reading of cycliterature (and other stuff), if you are a mainly short-twitch muscle type - a sprinter - then your natural cadence will be higher that^([sic]) if you are a mainly long-twitch muscle type - a hill-climber, or in neddy-racing terms, a "stayer" (I think).

2003 April 29, Fred Nieman, “90 cadence”, in aus.bicycle (Usenet):

AIRNews founder Arthur Stevens wishes Holden well adding, "We will miss his insights into the world of Aussie Rules Football and his understanding of the neddies and the Spring Racing Carnival.

2007 January 8, BearCave, “Peter Holden moving to Now FM”, in aus.radio.broadcast (Usenet):

I was up to 6 horses and figured to keep them fit and off the roids and put two in each race and get 1st and 2nd to build up the cash. Got home drunk saturday night saw a fake neddy at 4-1 so put all my $300k on it and lost.
Glad I wasn't Jean Bridges and spent $300k of my real money

2009 March 23, ^Tems^, “We need a new grid ad”, in aus.tv (Usenet):

(UK, Australia, slang) A horse, especially a racehorse.

He′d usually be there at the same place most Saturdays and we ended up sharing a beer talking about the neddies. It just grew from there. I′d nod at him; ask him how he was going. We′d talk racing, have a dig at each other for backing losers.

2010, Peter Klein, Silk Chaser, Pan Macmillan Australia, page 272:

(Australia, slang, in the plural, with "the") The horse races.

Weird as it sounds, it was because you weren't going fast enough :-) I've found that if you wick it up too much exiting a curve you tend to do one of those feet off the pegs numbers. Fun, huh? Otoh, if you carry more corner speed the back is more likely to let go gradually, because the tyre is already closer to the edge, so it doesn't require a fist full of neddies to break it loose. I still wouldn't recommmend it for the road...

1997 December 3, Graham Byrnes, “Heartstopping moment.....”, in aus.motorcycles (Usenet):

No chance in hell, even if it was a Gurney Eagle engine. The only way you can get those sort of neddies out of a 302 Windsor would be boost.

2007 March 24, Noddy nospam, “GT40 on ebay”, in aus.cars (Usenet):

(Australia, colloquial, slang, usually in the plural) Horsepower.


jennet

From Late Middle English genet, from Old French genet, from Old Catalan genet or Old Spanish ginete (“small fast horse; light horseman”), from Andalusian Arabic زَنَاتِي (zanātī), the Zenati or Zenata Berbers, known as excellent horse breeders. Doublet of Zenati.

Richmondʼs black jennet [...] is a gleaming and well-muscled creature of Spanish breed.

2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 230:


aparejo

(historical, especially military) A kind of packsaddle formerly used in the United States military, and in Latin America, made of leather stuffed with hay, moss, or similar substances.

albarda

packsaddle made of leather stuffed with hay


chilla

South American gray fox
South American gray fox


black and tan

en-noun

black and tan (countable and uncountable, plural black and tans)

(countable) Any of various breeds of dog having black and tan colouring.

(countable, US slang, now historical) A bar, nightclub etc. which had both black and white customers, especially one that featured black entertainers.


tosa

From Japanese 土佐 (Tosa), according to the former Tosa province on the island of Shikoku where the dog was originally bred.


vare

Borrowed from Spanish vara (“staff, wand”), Latin vara (“forked pole”).

1681-1682, John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel
His hand a vare of justice did uphold.

A wand or staff of authority or justice.


urus

Synonym of jatra (“annual village festival in India”)


goatskin

goatskin (countable and uncountable, plural goatskins)

From Middle English geet skin; equivalent to goat + skin.


squeaker

A party toy that uncoils with a squeaking sound when blown; a party puffer.

I mentioned that you correctly predicted nine of the last 10 presidential election outcomes, save one, in 2000 when George W. Bush defeated Al Gore, and that was a squeaker.

2024 October 3, Dana Taylor, “Allan Lichtman shares his 2024 presidential election prediction (podcast transcript)”, in USA Today, The Excerpt:

(US) A game or election won by a narrow margin.

An animal that squeaks.
Any of genus Synodontis, of catfish.

A squab or young domestic pigeon still in the nest.


Chihuahua

/t͡ʃɪˈwɑːwɑː/

Borrowed from Mexican Spanish Chihuahua. The dog is named after the state.

Aguascalientes · Baja California · Baja California Sur · Campeche · Chiapas · Chihuahua · Coahuila · Colima · Durango · Guanajuato · Guerrero · Hidalgo · Jalisco · Mexico · Michoacán · Morelos · Nayarit · Nuevo León · Oaxaca · Puebla · Querétaro · Quintana Roo · San Luis Potosí · Sinaloa · Sonora · Tabasco · Tamaulipas · Tlaxcala · Veracruz · Yucatán · Zacatecas

A city, the state capital of Chihuahua, Mexico


green monkey

An Old World monkey (Chlorocebus sabaeus)


crab-eater

Lobodon carcinophagus
Lobodon carcinophagus#Translingual

A crab-eater seal (Lobodon carcinophagus), which eats krill (not crabs).


saki

Compare French saki and Portuguese saki, ultimately probably from a Tupian name sagui, compare sagoin.

Any of several species of South American monkeys of the genus Pithecia with large ears and a long hairy tail that is not prehensile.


deerskin

deerskin (countable and uncountable, plural deerskins)

The moccasin maker had a pile of deerskin on the table, waiting to be cut out.

Nichole wore a pair of deerskin gloves because she said she could feel more through them.

(uncountable) Leather made from deer hide.


doeskin

doeskin (countable and uncountable, plural doeskins)

Elizabeth accidentally left her doeskins on the pew at Sunday service.

(countable, chiefly in the plural) A glove made of doeskin leather.


duckbill

duckbill eel

Nettastoma parviceps, or Nessorhamphus ingolfianus

duckbill ray

Aetobatus narinari or Pteromylaeus bovinus

duck-billed platypus
duck-billed platypus


clowder

A variation, recorded since 1801, of clutter, itself from clot, from Old English clott (“round mass, lump”), from Proto-Germanic *klūtaz (hence cognate with Dutch kloot (“ball, testicle”), Danish klods (“a block, lump”) and German Klotz (“lump, block”)).

A Brooklyn friend who persists in feeding the host of creatures - including me - who appear at her door will be delighted to know that the most nonchalant recipients of her largesse may be referred to as a clowder of cats.

1984 15 April, Nelson Bryant, “Bevies of Terms Befuddle Prides”, in The New York Times

Real cat fights are rare in established clowders. So instead of risking serious injury, cats resort to menace and threats.

2007, Kathryn Soper, Cat Wrangling Made Easy:

2010, The Big Bang Theory, episode “The Zazzy Substitution”
Leonard: You’re clearly upset about Amy being gone, and you’re trying to replace her with a bunch of cats.
Sheldon: Clowder.
Leonard: What?
Sheldon: A group of cats is a clowder. Or a glaring. It’s the kind of thing you ought to know now that we have one.

2011, M.D. Pueppke, Fuzzy the Cat, The One and Only, “Getting on terms with the terms”
How ‛bout organizing a party of clowder chowder. You know, big servings of chowder for the cat clowder.


ballotade

(dressage) A leap of a horse so that when its four feet are in the air simultaneously and aligned.


foo dog

Possibly a Western invention, from Mandarin 福 (fú, “good fortune”) + English dog. There is no similar word in Chinese itself that uses the word 福, but see English foo and Foo. Compare also Chinese 佛 (“Buddha”), pronounced fo or fu in some varieties.

A stylized lion statue similar to those usually placed in male and female pairs outside imperial Chinese palaces, tombs, temples, etc.


razorback

/ˈɹeɪzɚˌbæk/

/ˈɹeɪzəˌbæk/

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chazzer

From Yiddish חזיר (khazer), from Hebrew חזיר (hazír).

(slang) A police officer, especially one who is corrupt.


coonskin

coonskin (countable and uncountable, plural coonskins)


doubletree

a device that connects two horses to a wagon or other implement. The tugs of a harness are connected to a singletree, two of which are connected to a doubletree, which, in turn, is connected to the implement.


cattery

Coordinate term: kennel

A place where cats board when their owners are on holiday.


appaloosa

Ellipsis of Appaloosa cat, Apaloosa catfish.
Shortening of "Appaloosa cat" (itself a shortening of "Apaloosa catfish"), after the Appaloosa (Opelousa) tribe which resided in Louisiana. The tribe's name is Choctaw, the second element of it being losa (“black”); the first element is variously supposed to be a term for "head" or "skull", "leggings", "moccasins", or "body".

ellipsis

A big fish wends its way towards the shape the light makes, stops and sucks at air. Mottled brown and black, with a pink, appaloosa mouth.

2005, David Francis, The Great Inland Sea, page 141:

On a two-day camp out at Red Bluff on the Angelina River in East Texas, we had out twelve trotlines, fishing for mud, appaloosa, blue and channel catfish.

2008, Harry Noble, Me and Burnice: A Simpler Time, page 167:


dicky

→ Urdu: ڈِکّی (ḍikkī), ڈِگّی (ḍiggī)

→ Pashto: ډِګّۍ (ḍiggay)

From dick + -y (diminutive suffix).
* In cover/apron senses: perhaps from English dialect dick (“leather apron”) + -y; perhaps from Dutch dek (“a cover”).


Maine Coon

Japanese: メインクーン

Russian: мѐйн-ку́н (mèjn-kún)

desc

Thai: เมนคูน

Thai: เมนคูน

The attribute “Maine” is after the region where the breed originally became popular. For the second part, there are several theories. The dominant one is that it refers to a resemblance of the breed to the raccoon, leading some to propose the theoretical impossibility of the cat being a crossbreed with the raccoon. Another theory is that the name derives from a legendary Captain Tom Coon, who is said to have brought over such exotic cats.

A large, fluffy semi-longhair domestic cat of a breed that originated in Maine.


cuddy

Uncertain. Perhaps a contraction from Dutch kajuit (“cabin”).

folk said the cuddy had bided so long with Pooty that whenever it opened its mouth to give a bit bray it started to stutter.

1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 31:

w:Webster's Dictionary#Webster's New International Dictionary 1909

(Scotland, Durham, Northumberland, historical) A donkey, especially one driven by a huckster or greengrocer.

(UK, mining) A pony that works in a mine.

Edward H[enry] Knight
w:Edward H. Knight

A lever mounted on a tripod for lifting stones, leveling up railroad ties, etc.


cuddy

From Scots cuddie; compare Gaelic cudaig, cudainn, or English cuttlefish, or cod.

Pollachius virens
Pollachius virens#Translingual


cuddy

From buddy, with the initial "B" replaced with "C" in Crip slang.

I can't lie, I like to get high and figure-8 when I drive / Blow doja rope in the sky for all my cuddies that died

1996 April 23, “Get Right”, in Untouchable, performed by Mac Mall ft. LeVitti:

I could never imagine myself raising my hand to hit my Jasmine. She's my cuddy. We practically grew up together.

2012, Zonie Felder, January Jackson & Friends: The Premiere, Bloomington, I.N.: iUniverse, Inc., →ISBN, page 71:

Good night to my cuddies.. meek.. drake.. the ghostwriter and el chapo

2015 July 22, @kevinedwardsjr, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-06-15:

(African-American Vernacular, slang) A close friend or buddy.


curry comb

/ˈkʌɹiˌkəʊm/


bearskin

en-noun

bearskin (countable and uncountable, plural bearskins)

(countable) A tall ceremonial hat worn by members of some British regiments for ceremonial occasions; a busby.


horse

horse (countable and uncountable, plural horses)

Sranan Tongo: asi

→ Maori: hōiho

→ Quiripi: hosses (from the plural horses)

From Middle English horse, hors, from Old English hors (“horse”), from Proto-West Germanic *hors, *hross, from Proto-Germanic *hrussą (“horse”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós (“vehicle”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- (“to run”). Doublet of car. Cognate with North Frisian hors (“horse”), West Frisian hoars (“horse”), Dutch ros, hors (“horse”), German Ross (“horse”), Danish hors (“horse”), Swedish russ, hors (“horse”), Icelandic hross, hors (“horse”).

a camel is a horse designed by a committee

a nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse

close the barn door after the horse has bolted

close the stable door after the horse has been stolen

close the stable door after the horse has bolted

lock the stable door after the horse has been stolen

lock the stable door after the horse has bolted

shut the stable door after the horse has bolted

you can't put the shit back in the horse

zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse

Also Horse harness on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

See Horse-drawn vehicles on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Note: Many of these were adapted into and/or gave their names to motor vehicle types

with the horse-drawn originals often being forgotten.

The old “horse” has made way for the “foot-rope", though we still retain the term “Flemish horse" for the short foot-rope at the top-sail yard-arms

1887, William Clark Russell, A Book for the Hammock:

(nautical) Type of equipment.
A jackstay.


horse

en-verb

horse (third-person singular simple present horses, present participle horsing, simple past and past participle horsed)

horses (present singular third-person)
horsing (participle present)
horsed (participle past)
horsed (past)

From Middle English horsen, from Old English horsian (“to horse, provide with horses”) and ġehorsian (“to horse, set or mount on a horse, supply with horses”), from the noun (see above).

inh

"Stop horsing, and guess how many kids!"

1958, Gay Gaer Luce, Cross Your Heart, page 181:

"Why don't we stop horsing and get down to cases, Lou?" Mike Davey growled.

2019, Frank Kane, Red Hot Ice: A Johnny Liddell Mystery, page 117:


horse

Unknown; probably originally criminals' cant based on the initial letter of both words.

Check that shirt. I got a couple of jolts of horse stashed under the collar

It was to remember the juke box, the teasing, the dancing, the hard-on, the gang fights and gang bangs, his first set of drums—bought him by his father—his first taste of marijuana, his first snort of horse.

1962, James Baldwin, Another Country, New York, N. Y.: The Dial Press, published 1963 January, page 6:


slumgullion

en-noun

slumgullion (countable and uncountable, plural slumgullions)

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Uncertain, but said to derive from slime and Scots gullion (“swamp; cesspool”). Attested from the late nineteenth century in reference to a watery beverage (see quotation below). Compare Irish góilín (“a creek; a small inlet”).

“Say...if anybody cares, this vat of slumgullion is as ready as it will ever be.”

1981, Julian May, The Many-Colored Land:

A reddish muddy deposit in mining sluices.

There is another substance, and a very singular one, which turns up in the course of this business [of preparing sperm whale], but which I feel it to be very puzzling adequately to describe. It is called slobgollion[…] It is an ineffably oozy, stringy affair, most frequently found in the tubs of sperm, after a prolonged squeezing, and subsequent decanting.

1892, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, page 394:

The “slumgullion” and “lipperings” or “dreenings” of the blubber—consisting of a mixture of the blood which issues from the fat-lean and the salt water and oil which flows from the blubber while the men are handling it as they hoist it aboard ship, stow it away, and prepare it for the try-pots—though discarded in the palmy days of whaling, are now carefully husbanded and amalgamated.

1904, Charles H. Stevenson, “Aquatic products in arts and industries”, in Report of the Commissioner for Fish and Fisheries, page 198:

The slide received its name from a seafaring man who was reminded of slumgullion, the yellow residue from the blubber of a butchered whale.

1996, Lee Gregory, Colorado Scenic Guide: Southern Region, Slumgullion Earthflow, page 142:

slobgollion

A waste product or byproduct from processing whales or fish.


guide dog

Coordinate term: herding dog

A dog that is trained to be of assistance to a vision-impaired or hearing-impaired person and is thus able to guide them.

gos pigall

dog that is trained to be of assistance to a blind person


featherweight

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Safety and fairness in female sport was one of the most prominent topics at this summer’s Olympic Games, where boxers Imane Khelif and Lin Yu Ting took gold in the women’s welterweight and featherweight categories respectively.

2024 November 4, Jamie Gardner, “Mandatory genetic testing in sport ‘not justified, ethical or viable’, say academics”, in The Independent:

A weight class in many combat sports; e.g. in professional boxing of a maximum of 126 pounds or 57.2 kilograms.


woolly mammoth

The ice age was nearly two million years old by the time the woolly mammoth evolved.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 204:

Mammuthus primigenius
Mammuthus primigenius#Translingual

A very hairy mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius, widespread in colder regions of the Northern Hemisphere during the Pleistocene period.


rhesus monkey

Macaca mulatta
Macaca mulatta#Translingual


rhesus macaque

A monkey, Macaca mulatta, common throughout southern Asia, that is extensively used for medical research.


schoolie

From school + -ie (“diminutive suffix”).

(equestrianism, informal) Synonym of school horse


native monkey

1892: James Günther, Grammar and Vocabulary of the Aboriginal Dialect called the Wiradhurri, Appendix D of John Fraser (ed.), An Australian Language
Barrandang—a native monkey.

It forms the genus Phascolarctos, and is called by the colonists “native bear” or “native monkey.”


cat-flap

Harry Ufford opened his front door, and his animals, from the yard, came bursting through the cat-flap in the back door and rushed on him.

1984, Randolph Stow, The Suburbs of Hell: A Novel, Taplinger, →ISBN, page 137:

1985, Derek Albert Pearsall, The Canterbury Tales (in his introduction to Chaucer's Miller's Tale), Routledge (UK), →ISBN, p. 182,
We could find our way blindfold about old John's house, with its cat-flap in Nicholas's bedroom-door.

While she's distracted, Batman and Robin make heroic, synchronised leaps off the fridge onto the lino and crash hell for leather, one after the other, through the cat-flap. The cat-flap's plastic frame collapses in pieces on the floor behind them.

2006, Robert Graham, Holy Joe, Troubador, →ISBN, page 141:


Chinese hamster

Chinese hamster (plural Chinese hamsters)

Any of species Cricetulus griseus of hamsters originating in the deserts of northern China and Mongolia.


American cocker spaniel

American cocker spaniel (plural American cocker spaniels)

English cocker spaniel
English cocker spaniel

A sporting dog of a breed ranging between 18 and 30 lbs., originally bred in Britain as the English cocker spaniel for the sport of cocking, or bird hunting. Breed divided by colors: black, sable, parti, tri, and ASCOB.


jumbo

jumbo (countable and uncountable, plural jumbos)

From Jumbo (1860–1885), the name given to a large African elephant from East Africa that was purchased in 1882 by American showman P. T. Barnum (1810–1891) for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Compare Swahili jambo (“matter, thing”) and jumbe (“chief, headman”).


jumbo

Returning to the villa, we were greeted by a party which frightened the boys. It was the Moco Jumbo and his suite. The Jumbo was on stilts, with a head, mounted on the actor's head, which was concealed: the music was from two baskets, like strawberry baskets, with little bells within, shook in time. The swordsman danced with an air of menace, the musician was comical, and Jumbo assumed the "antic terrible," and was very active on his stilts.

1806, William Young, “A Tour through the Several Islands of Barbadoes, St. Vincent, Antigua, Tobago, and Grenada, in the Years 1791 & 1792”, in Bryan Edwards, The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies. […] In Four Volumes, volume IV, Philadelphia, Pa.: Printed and sold by James Humphreys, […], →OCLC, page 257:

[A]nother Krooman came hurrying up, holding out a wooden image with a few bits of grass round its neck, and exclaiming, "Wurra! Wurra! Jumbo hang in fetische-house, sure he make much finish die." […] Jumbo was an uncouthly-carved figure of a man, about a foot in height, sitting cross-legged like a tailor, with ears preposterously large, the Kroo mark down the forehead and nose, and a piece of looking-glass fixed in the thorax and abdomen.

1845 April, “Delta” [pseudonym], “Krooman versus Boobie. A Scene at Fernando Po.”, in P. L. Simmonds, editor, Simmond’s Colonial Magazine and Foreign Miscellany, volume IV, number 16, London: Simmonds & Ward, […], →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 487–488:

(paganism, historical) Short for mumbo jumbo (“a deity or other supernatural being worshipped by certain West African peoples; an idol representing such a being”).


lone wolf

I am a lone wolf, a solitary man, wandering through a world in which I have no part. I am wifeless—childless—who is it speaks of the childless as the dead twigs on the tree of life?

1899, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter I, in The Sleeper Awakes:

You'll never mix in. You'll be a lone wolf. I seen that right off. Wal, if a man can stand the loneliness, an' if he's quick on the draw, mebbe lone-wolfin' it is the best.

(figuratively) A person who avoids the company of others; a loner; an independent or solitary person.


calico cat

(US) A tortoiseshell and white domestic cat.


pye

(zoology) Ellipsis of pye-dog (an Indian breed, a stray dog in Indian contexts).


Australian Shepherd

Australian Shepherd (plural Australian Shepherds)

Selectively bred shepherding dogs mainly of European stock, misnamed from some interbreeding of Australian dogs imported to California during the Gold Rush.

A type of herding dog originating in areas around and in California.


working dog

(cynology) Any breed of dog developed primarily to assist humans in performing tasks, such as farming, controlling livestock, law enforcement, or assisting the blind.


Siberian Husky

Siberian Husky (plural Siberian Huskies)

(zoology) A medium-sized spitz breed of dog originally used for herding reindeer and pulling sleighs.


backstretch

At the time appointed to start [2 1 2 P.M.], the horses made their appearance on the track, and were soon after called up by the judges for the race. They were startd at six minutes before three o'clock, the pacer having the pole, and leading round the first turn. On the backstretch he waited for the trotter, and let him take sides with him, it being apparent at this early stage that [George] Spicer did not intend to go any faster than the trotter would make him, at the same time keeping the trotter on the ouside all the way round, thereby making him go a greater distance in the race.

1853 November 26, “Ten Mile Race in Centreville, L.I.”, in Gleason’s Pictorial Drawing-room Companion, volume V, number 22 (number 126 from the start), Boston, Mass.: F[rederick] Gleason, corner of Tremont and Bromfield Sts., →OCLC, page 340, column 1:

This was a day almost fifty years since the time I was supposed to run in the 4 by 100-meter Olympic relay. I was standing on the track in the imposing, empty Olympic Stadium in Berlin. […] I walked down into the well of the vast, brooding stadium, and then along the backstretch of the red clay running oval.

1996, Marty Glickman, Stan Isaacs, “Prologue”, in The Fastest Kid on the Block: The Marty Glickman Story (Sports and Entertainment), Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, →ISBN, page 2:

(athletics, horse racing, car racing) Synonym of back straight (“straight part of a racetrack, running track, etc., opposite the finishing line”).

back straight

Dominic Gatto liked to have someone at the track to represent him when one of his horses raced at Arlington Park or Belmont or Prescott Downs. Someone to relay a word to the jockey, keep a sharp eye on the trainer, distribute tips to the backstretch workers who were made to understand that Mr Dominic appreciated their services.

1997, Cary Fagan, chapter 9, in Sleeping Weather, Erin, Ont.: The Porcupine's Quill, →ISBN, page 71:

When I was a kid here, growing up in the Palouse River, we never met people from other cultures or countries. There on the racetracks and backstretches in England I met people from all over the world. Everyone came together to own the horses, to work the horses and to watch them race.

2012, Krista Michelle Breen, “Quicksand”, in Quicksand: The Mysterious Disappearance of Dakotaroo, 4th edition, Rockwood, Ont.: Groundskeeper's Cottage Press, →ISBN, page 130:

(horse racing) An area next to a racetrack used to stable the racehorses and house employees.


chevrotain

/ˈʃɛvɹəˌteɪn/

Borrowed from French chevrotain, chevrotin (“ruminant of the family Tragulidae”), the diminutive of Old French chevrot (“young goat, kid”), itself a diminutive of chievre (“goat”) (modern French chèvre (“she-goat”)) + -ot (diminutive suffix). Chievre is derived from Latin capra (“she-goat”), from caper (“billy goat, he-goat”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kápros (“billy goat, he-goat”)) + -a (suffix forming feminine counterparts of masculine nouns).

der

To this vve may add the Chevrotin, or little Guinea Deer, vvhich is the leaſt of all cloven-footed quadrupeds, and perhaps the moſt beautiful; its legs, at the ſmalleſt part, are not much thicker than the ſhank of a tobacco-pipe; it is about ſeven inches high, and about tvvelve from the point of the noſe to the inſertion of the tail.

1791, Oliver Goldsmith, “Of Animals of the Sheep and Goat Kind”, in An History of the Earth, and Animated Nature. […], new edition, volume III, London: […] F[rancis] Wingrave, successor to Mr. [John] Nourse, […], →OCLC, page 76:

Any of several small hornless ruminants of the family Tragulidae (genera Hyemoschus, Moschiola, and Tragulus), native to tropical rainforests of South and Southeast Asia, and Central and West Africa; a mouse deer.

peulandôk

any of several small hornless ruminants of the family Tragulidae


marbled polecat

en-noun

marbled polecat (plural marbled polecats)

Vormela peregusna, a polecat found from Eastern Europe to parts of China, with yellow and black markings on its back.


elephant seal

Large marine mammals of the genus Mirounga, the largest of the pinnipeds.


fur seal

A marine mammal of either of the genera Arctocephalus or Callorhinus of the eared seal family Otariidae, differing from the sea lions in having dense underfur.


ringed seal

Pusa hispida, an earless seal inhabiting Arctic and subarctic coasts.


seal point

A dark brown area of fur on the ears, face, legs, and tail of a Siamese cat.


zebroid

A cross between a zebra and any other equine animal, but especially a horse.


zebrine

en-adj

zebrine (comparative more zebrine, superlative most zebrine)

more zebrine (comparative)
most zebrine (superlative)


litter box

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Pregnant women are often advised to have someone else clean the litter box to reduce the risk of contracting toxoplasmosis.

A box used to provide a soiling area for (usually) pet cats, generally filled with kitty litter, sand, clay chips, etc.


cat box

Pregnant women are often advised to have someone else clean the cat box to reduce the risk of contracting toxoplasmosis.

I'm in advertising, you know. Oh, yes. I designed the ad campaign that put those pictures of missing children on bags of kitty litter. Every time you change the cat box, there are those little faces looking up at you. It has to help. Think about it.

1985 December 21, Larry Hitt, “Perfect Couple Creation”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 23, page 7:

A box used to provide a soiling area for (usually) pet cats, generally filled with sand, clay chips, etc.


sciurine

From Latin sciūrus (“squirrel”), from Ancient Greek σκίουρος (skíouros, “squirrel”), from σκιά (skiá, “shadow”) + οὐρά (ourá, “tail”), + -ine.

der

A member of the squirrel subfamily of Sciurinae.


Moby-Dick

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The elusive white whale hunted in this novel.


uakari

Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese uacari, borrowed from Nheengatu wakarí, possibly from Old Tupi akaka'i.

etymon

Any of several arboreal monkeys, of the genus Cacajao, from the Amazon basin.


malbrouck

An arboreal monkey from Africa, Chlorocebus cynosuros.


kipunji

“Make a mess, such a mess these kipunji, make a mess, they swing over looking for fruit and make such a mess in me house.”

2019, Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Hamish Hamilton, page 582:

An arboreal Old World monkey of species Rungwecebus kipunji from Tanzania.


New World monkey

en-noun

New World monkey (plural New World monkeys)

Coordinate term: Old World monkey

Any monkey from any of the five families of primates that are found in Central America and South America: the Callitrichidae, Cebidae, Aotidae, Pitheciidae, and Atelidae.

নয়া জাহান বান্দর

families of primates found in Central and South America


milch cow

From Middle English melche cow, mylche cowe.

A cow that produces milk (having had at least one calf).

(military, slang) A German WWII submarine designed to carry large cargoes of supplies and transfer them to other submarines.


quarter horse

Named for its ability to outdistance other horse breeds in races of a quarter mile or less.

I'm getting ready to go out and play the quarter horses.

1980, Charles Bukowski, letter, 4 November, in On Writing, Canongate 2016, p. 158

When the last tune of music floated from the fleet, he unstabled his quarter horse and headed for the coastal road leading west and north on his circuit.

1992, Elizabeth Darracott Wheeler, Sir John Dodderidge, Celebrated Barrister of Britain, 1555-1628:

An American breed of horse originally bred for short-distance racing.


sidesaddle

A saddle, usually for a woman, in which the rider sits with both legs on the same side of the horse.


pit bull terrier

pit bull terrier (plural pit bull terriers)

A medium-sized dog historically bred for dogfighting.


carnivoran

(zoology) Any member of the order Carnivora.


porpentine

[T]hese wordes of his moue me as much, / As if a Goose should play the Porpintine, / And dart her plumes, thinking to pierce my brest, […]

1594, Christopher Marlow[e], The Troublesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Henry Bell, […], published 1622, →OCLC, (please specify the page):

I could a Tale vnfold, vvhoſe lighteſt vvord / VVould harrovv vp thy ſoule, freeze thy young blood, / Make thy tvvo eyes like Starres, ſtart from their Spheres, / Thy knotty and combined locks to part, / And each particular haire to ſtand an end, / Like Quilles vpon the fretfull Porpentine: […]

c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v], page 257, column 2:

Odd that he [Hamlet's ghost] should have said porpentine when he meant porcupine. Slip of the tongue, no doubt, as so often happens with ghosts.

1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XI, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:


kid leather

kid leather (countable and uncountable, plural kid leathers)

Leather made from the skin of a young goat.


calk

en-verb

calk (third-person singular simple present calks, present participle calking, simple past and past participle calked)

calks (present singular third-person)
calking (participle present)
calked (participle past)
calked (past)

From French calque, ultimately derived from Latin calcō (“I trample”). Doublet of calque.

To copy (a drawing) by rubbing the back of it with red or black chalk, and then passing a blunt stylus or needle over the lines, so as to leave a tracing on the paper or other thing against which it is laid or held.


flaps

Giges or flappes, is pimples or teates in the in side of his mouth.

1587, Leonard Mascall, The First Booke of Cattell, London: John Wolfe, page 163:

If there be any ſwelling betweene the eares, it is a ſigne of the Pole-evil: ſwelling under the eare, a ſigne of the Vives; and ſwelling in the mouth, a ſigne either of Canker, Flaps, Lampaſſe.

1610, Gervase Markham, “Of the signes of sicknesse, and of what nature it consisteth”, in Markhams Maister-peece. Contayning All Knowledge Belonging to the Smith, Farrier, or Horse-leech, Touching the Curing of All Diseases in Horses: […], 5th edition, London: […] Nicholas and Iohn Okes, […], published 1636, →OCLC, 1st book (Containing All Cures Physicall, […]), page 32:

Theſe Giggs, Bladders or Flaps, proceed either from eating too much Graſs, or that which is bad; or Hay or Provender that is rough and pricking.

1726, N. B. Philippos, The Farrier's and Horseman's Dictionary, London: J. Darby, page 247:

The Flaps are a ſpungy, fleſhy, fungous ſubftance, ſituated juſt below the grinders on the lower jaw, adjoining the cheek, on the part where the bit reſteth upon. The above is ſo troubleſome to a Horſe and ſo ſore, that he will often catch the Flaps between his grinders, which chafes him much, and prevents him to grind his food, and cauſes him to ſlaver and ſlober much.

1784, William Griffiths, A Practical Treatise on Farriery, Wrexham, Wales: R. Marsh, page 119:

These likewise sometimes enlarge during catarrh or imflammation of the mouth, and are called gigs, and bladders, and flaps in the mouth.

1843, William Youatt, The Horse, London: Chapman & Hall, page 206:

(farriery, archaic) A disease in the mouths of horses involving inflammation in the cheeks or lips.


cathouse

Alot^([sic]) of great work is being done all throughout blog land in terms of raising the money to build a cathouse for homeless kitties here at the daily dose.

2012, Chrystal Parker, Daily Dose of Dogs (Aka Cats with Your Coffee), page 490:

(rare, literally) Any small house, structure or fold used to house a cat.


camelid

(zoology) Any of a family of mammals including the camel, llama, alpaca, guanaco, and vicuña.

tevefélék

any of a family of mammals including the camel, llama, alpaca, guanaco and vicuña


herding dog

A dog bred for working cattle, sheep, or other livestock. For example, the various shepherd breeds.


wurbagool

You see, my lord, I get rheumatic pains in my leg sometimes, and the bone of a wurbagool tied round the ankle with a string of a black cow's hair is, they say, the best cure.

1877, Robert Armitage Sterndale, Seonee, Or Camp Life on the Saptura Range, page 194:

An Indian flying fox (Pteropus medius, syn. Pteropus giganteus), found throughout south Asia.


longe

From French allonger (“to lengthen”), or Latin longa (“long”), i.e. the long rope.

A long rope or flat web line, more commonly referred to as a longe line, approximately 20-30 feet long, attached to the bridle, longeing cavesson, or halter of a horse and used to control the animal while longeing.


white bear

From Middle English white bere. By surface analysis, white + bear.

Ursus maritimus
Ursus maritimus#Translingual

A white, semi-aquatic marine species of bear, Ursus maritimus, that is native and best adapted to the Arctic mix of land, ice and sea.


raghorn

From rag + horn, describing the animals as non-prime trophy specimens, i.e. "rags". Another explanation is that it is descriptive of how the new antlers have a velvety covering that sloughs off each year and can hang like rags.

(US, informal) Any male elk (bull) with antlers between one and six points, non-inclusive, on either side. Also called an "intermediate bull" (bulls with two, three, four or five points on either side).


scissorbill

(now rare) Synonym of skimmer: birds of the genus Rynchops.


pari-mutuel

en-noun

pari-mutuel (plural pari-mutuels or paris-mutuels)

pari-mutuels (plural)
paris-mutuels (plural)

There is also a pari-mutuel option. You and a friend can wager that you will each lose 15 pounds over the next two months. If you both succeed, the money is returned. But if one fails while the other succeeds, then the loser pays the winner. If you both fail, then the one who loses the most is the winner.

2008, Avinash K. Dixit and Barry J. Nalebuff, The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life, W.W Norton & Company, p. 208

(horse racing) Any betting system in which all bets of a particular type are placed together in a pool; taxes and a house take are removed, and payoff odds are calculated by sharing the pool among all placed bets.


firefox

Calque of Finnish tulikettu or Finnish tulirepo.

A mythical creature in Finnish folklore, a fox with fiery or radiant fur, the reflection of which produces the northern lights.


arctic fox

Its ʽcore faunaʼ consisted of the woolly mammoth, woolly rhino, saiga, muskox and the arctic fox. All except the woolly rhino evolved in the northern Arctic, and all had been evolving for several million years before their modern forms appeared.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 205:

Vulpes lagopus
Vulpes lagopus#Translingual

Vulpes lagopus, a fox of the family Canidae, living in the Arctic regions of North America and Eurasia.


blue fox

Vernacular name of the subspecies Vulpes lagopus pribilofensis.


pack horse

1912, Katherine Mansfield, The Woman at the Store, from "Selected Short Stories"
The pack horse was sick - with a big, open sore rubbed under the belly.


water shrew

Bornean water shrew (Chimarrogale phaeura

Chinese water shrew (Chimarrogale styani

Any of several species of semiaquatic red-toothed shrews:


spavined

en-adj

spavined (comparative more spavined, superlative most spavined)

more spavined (comparative)
most spavined (superlative)

From Late Middle English spaueyned, from spavein, spaveine (“swelling on horse’s leg causing lameness; disease causing lameness in horses”) + -ed (suffix forming adjectives; and the past tense and past participle forms of weak verbs). By surface analysis, spavin + -ed (suffix forming possessional adjectives from nouns, denoting having the objects represented by the nouns; and forming past tenses of regular verbs).

surf

Coordinate term: foundered

[H]e […] made a present to Andrew of a broken-winded and spavined poney, in order to enable him to pursue his journey.

1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter VI, in Rob Roy. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 115:

A horse-giver, no more than a horse-seller, has a right to palm his spavined article upon us for good ware. An equivalent is expected in either case; and, with my own good will, I would no more be cheated out of my thanks, than out of my money.

1833, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], “[Popular Fallacies.] XI. That We Must Not Look a Gift-Horse in the Mouth, […].”, in The Last Essays of Elia. […], London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 250:

[…] Mr. Thumble, […] had ridden over to Hogglestock on a poor spavined brute belonging to the bishop's stable, and which had once been the bishop's cob.

1867, Anthony Trollope, “The Bishop’s Angel”, in The Last Chronicle of Barset. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 106:

As for the wonderful feats of horsemanship one hears of or sees among the Arabs, they are due to sharp spurs like razors, and to bits strong enough to break an animal's jaw. […] The favourite feat at their fantasias or fêtes of suddenly pulling up their horses short while at a hand-gallop, ruins their legs, and there is in consequence scarcely a horse to be seen whose hind-legs are not spavined.

1868, Mrs. H. Lloyd Evans, “Across the Atlas”, in Last Winter in Algeria, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 100:

The Whig party was supposed to be broken in 1842. It was likened to the man who wished to sell his horse. A by-stander asked if the horse was not spavined? "Spavined! I don't know what that is; but if the horse is any better for being spavined, then he is spavined!"

1876, Samuel S[ullivan] Cox, “Legislative Anecdote—Continued”, in Why We Laugh, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 281:

Into the vale from the north rode a stranger. He was mounted on a mangy, shovel-headed horse so spavined that it should have been unable to support his improbable bulk.

2010, Stephen R[eeder] Donaldson, Against All Things Ending (The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant; 3), New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, page 54:

(farriery, veterinary medicine) Of a horse: having spavin (“a disease of horses caused by a bony swelling which develops in a leg due to inflammation”).


arctic hare

Lepus arcticus
Lepus arcticus#Translingual

A North-American hare of species Lepus arcticus, that is white, usually year round, found in the Arctic.


brown hare

Lepus europaeus
Lepus europaeus#Translingual


snuffer

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The participant in a snuff film who kills another (the snuffee).


red squirrel

Tamiasciurus hudsonicus, the American red squirrel, found in parts of North America.


Siberian flying squirrel

en-noun

Siberian flying squirrel (plural Siberian flying squirrels)

A species of flying squirrel (Pteromys volans), common in Siberia and northeastern Europe.


American beaver

American beaver (plural American beavers)

Castor canadensis
Castor canadensis#Translingual

The beaver Castor canadensis, native of North America.


European beaver

European beaver (plural European beavers)

A species of beaver, Castor fiber, native to Eurasia.


musquash

From Abenaki moskwas (or its Massachusett equivalent). Compare musquaw.

[…] Muſquaſhes, vvhich be much like a Beaver for ſhape, but nothing neare ſo bigge; the male hath tvvo ſtones vvhich ſmell as ſvveete as Muske, […]

1634, William Wood, “Beasts Living in the Water”, in New Englands Prospect. A True, Lively, and Experimentall Description of that Part of America, Commonly Called New England; […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Bellamie, […], →OCLC, 1st part, page 25:

Ondatra zibethicus
Ondatra zibethicus#Translingual


Norway lemming

Lemmus lemmus
Lemmus lemmus#Translingual

A lemming of species Lemmus lemmus, endemic of northern Scandinavia and northern Russia.


wood lemming

wood + lemming; from the animal's native habitat in forests

Any of species Myopus schisticolor of lemmings.


race card

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(often derogatory) The invocation of a person's race in a discussion in order to gain sympathy or an advantage in that discussion.

rotukortti

the invocation of a person's race in a discussion in order to gain sympathy

play the race card

invocation of race to gain sympathy in a discussion


European water vole

European water vole (plural European water voles)

Arvicola amphibius
Arvicola amphibius#Translingual

Arvicola terrestris
Arvicola terrestris#Translingual

A species of vole, Arvicola amphibius, formerly Arvicola terrestris.


field vole

A vole of species Microtus agrestis, of cool-temperate western Eurasia.


common vole

Microtus arvalis
Microtus arvalis#Translingual


southern vole

A species of vole, Microtus levis (syns. Microtus rossiaemeridionalis, Microtus epiroticus)


tundra vole

A vole of species Microtus oeconomus, found throughout the Arctic.


bank vole

A vole of species Chletrionomys glareolus, of much of western Eurasia.


grey red-backed vole

grey red-backed vole (plural grey red-backed voles)

A vole of species Myodes rufocanus, former genus names Chletrionomys and Evotomys.


whitecoat

A new-born baby harp or grey seal before its fur becomes grey, normally around 12 days old.


mouffle

The young wolves divided the spoil into four portions ; but one of them retained the tongue and the other the mouffle (upper lip), which are the chief delicacies of the animal.

1923, Sir James George Frazer, Folk-lore in the Old Testament:

(Canada) The loose covering around the nose and upper lips of the moose or elk. Prized for stewing or roasting.


collared peccary

collared peccary (plural collared peccaries)

A small wild hog (Pecari tajacu), native to southern United States through to northern Argentina.


degu

From the Mapudungun dewü, via South American Spanish degú.

Along the trails, degus leave mini-urine puddles marking the trail.

2008, Ana Maria Rodriguez, Secret of the Singing Mice... and More!, page 37:

Dr. Braun used used laboratory rats called degus or brush-tail rats (Octodon degus), a species of rodent closely related to guinea pigs.[…]In their natural environment, degu infants are raised jointly by their father and mother and are extremely communicative, using whistling tones to carry on intensive “conversations.”

2011, Elsie Jones-Smith, Spotlighting the Strengths of Every Single Student, page 80:

Degus, or trumpet-tail rats, come from Chile. Taxonomically, they are in the same diverse order as guinea pigs and chinchillas. Degus have been used as laboratory animals for 20 years and in recent years have become popular as pets in the United States and Europe.

2011, Katherine Quesenberry, James W. Carpenter, Ferrets, Rabbits and Rodents: Clinical Medicine and Surgery, unnumbered page:

Any species of the genus Octodon, especially Octodon degus, a small, caviomorph rodent native to Chile.


Rover

desctree

→ Polish: rower
→ Belarusian: ро́вар (róvar)
→ Ukrainian: ро́вер (róver)
→ Yiddish: ראָווער (rover)

Thor jumped off the sledge to undo the gate, and as we merrily drove up to the door we were met by the boisterous welcome of old Rover, who in his frantic joy at hearing my voice almost broke his chain in trying to rush at me.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 18:


black rat

The black rat spread wherever they settled, and so tied was it to Roman habitats that it became extinct in Britain following the Roman withdrawal, only to reappear in Norman times. Thereafter the black rat prospered - until the arrival of the larger brown rat (also known as the sewer rat or Norway rat), which reached Britain at about the time of the Hanoverian succession in the eighteenth century.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 272:

Rattus rattus
Rattus rattus#Translingual

A common species of rat, Rattus rattus, originating anciently in Asia but now distributed worldwide.


Asian black rat

en-noun

Asian black rat (plural Asian black rats)


roof rat

A large roof rat ran from the overflowing bins and disappeared under the house.

2021, Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness, Canongate Books (2022), page 308:


Norwegian rat

The common name was popularised (and perhaps coined) by English naturalist John Berkenhout, in his Outlines of the Natural History of Great Britain (1769). Berkenhout believed the species migrated to England from Norwegian ships in 1728; he is also responsible for the scientific name.


wharf rat

(slang) A man who hangs around a wharf in the hope of finding temporary work there.


striped field mouse

striped field mouse (plural striped field mice)

A field mouse of species Apodemus agrarius, native to much of western Eurasia and to east Asia,


yellow-necked mouse

yellow-necked mouse (plural yellow-necked mice)

A mouse of species Apodemus flavicollis of the sub-family Murinae (Old World rats and mice), of much of western Eurasia.


harvest mouse

A New World mouse of the genus Reithrodontomys.


water vole

Any of three Old World vole species: European water vole (Arvicola amphibius, formerly Arvicola terrestris), montane water vole (Arvicola scherman), or southwestern water vole (Arvicola sapidus).


garden dormouse

A rodent in the Gliridae (dormouse) family, Eliomys quercinus, native to parts of Europe, especially southern Europe.


northern birch mouse

northern birch mouse (plural northern birch mice)

A rodent classified in the family Sminthidae, Sicista betulina that is found in subarctic and cool temperate Asia from Scandinavia to Lake Baikal.


raccoon dog

OBLIVIOUS to his sterilisation, Judas the raccoon dog treks through Sweden’s countryside in search of a mate. At last he finds one, only for their liaison to end when she is shot. He trudges on and finds another, but she is killed too. This is his destiny: he is a radio-tagged lure leading hunters to the last live raccoon dogs in the country.

2016, Aisling Irwin, Furry aliens on Europe’s hit list: New Scientist, number 3063, page 8:

Nyctereutes procyonoides
Nyctereutes procyonoides#Translingual

Nyctereutes viverrinus
Nyctereutes viverrinus#Translingual

A canid, of species Nyctereutes procyonoides or Nyctereutes viverrinus, the only extant species in the genus Nyctereutes of the Canidae or dog family, native to East Asia and widely introduced elsewhere in other cool parts of Eurasia.


pack rat

Any of several small North American rodents, of the genus Neotoma, that have bushy tails.


Yorkshire Terrier

Yorkshire Terrier (plural Yorkshire Terriers)

/ˈjɔː(ɹ)kʃɪə(ɹ)ˈtɛɹɪə(ɹ)/

A breed of toy dog having a long, glossy coat.


hoss

hoss (countable and uncountable, plural hosses)

Non-rhotic pronunciation of horse.
See also 'oss in English dialects with H-dropping.

"Them hosses are feeling their oats," said McGuire. "Can't tell what they'd be up to the minute I turned my back on 'em. Might jump that old fence and be off, for all I know."

1922, Max Brand [pseudonym; Frederick Schiller Faust], Alcatraz:

“That ole black hoss let out a whinny.”

1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 563:

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling

(Southern US, slang) Pronunciation spelling of horse.


narwhale

Oh, the believing is hard to be doing, because that was so incredible! We met so many celebrities in midair! And the part with the narwhale was so illegal.

2006 July 3, Michael Chapman; Matthew Chapman, “Weclome Back”, in Homestar Runner, spoken by Strong Bad (Matthew Chapman):


alley cat

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

(cycling) An informal bicycle race with checkpoints.


mountain hare

Lepus americanus
Lepus americanus#Translingual

(Canada, US) Any of various hares found in mountainous country, especially the snowshoe hare, Lepus americanus, and the white-tailed jackrabbit (Lepus townsendi).


European hare

Lepus capensis
Lepus capensis#Translingual

A Eurasian hare species (Lepus europaeus or Lepus capensis).


eastern jackrabbit

eastern jackrabbit (plural eastern jackrabbits)

A term used of European hare, Lepus europaeus, in Eastern North America, originating from European hares that escaped from a farm.


Dobermann Pinscher

Dobermann Pinscher (plural Dobermann Pinschers)


shorthorn

One of a breed of cattle, originating in England, with distinctively short horns (in contrast to longhorn cattle).


toy dog

(cynology) Any of several breeds of small dogs, kept as pets.


scut

Associated University Presses
Folger Shakespeare Library
Henry IV, Part 2

From Middle English scut (“hare”); further etymology uncertain, possibly related to Middle English scut, scute (“short”), possibly from Old French escorter, escurter, or Latin excurtāre, scurtāre, from curtō (“to cut short, shorten”), from curtus (“short; shortened”) (from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut off”)) + -ō. A derivation from Old Norse skut, skutr (“stern of a boat”), or Icelandic skott (“animal's tail”) is thought to be unlikely.
As to sense 3 (“the female pudenda, the vulva”), see the letter of 5 June 1875 from Joseph Crosby to Joseph Parker Norris published in One Touch of Shakespeare (1986).

der

(obsolete) A hare; (hunting, also figuratively) a hare as the game in a hunt.

Shakespeare's use of the word scut may be a sly reference to Mistress Ford's pudenda: see sense 3.

A short, erect tail, as of a hare, rabbit, or deer.


scut

Uncertain, possibly a variant of scout (“(obsolete except Scotland) contemptible person”), possibly related to scout (“to reject with contempt; to scoff”), from a North Germanic language; compare Old Norse skúta, skúte (“a taunt”), probably from Proto-Germanic *skeutaną (“to shoot”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewd- (“to shoot; to throw”). Compare Old Norse skútyrði, skotyrði (“abusive language”).

cog

"I'll have no more of it. I'll have no more Dinny Ryans handlin' flesh and blood of my gettin'. Ye'd see me dyin' for a sup of drink to give me peace, and you philanderin' and danderin' with yon scut of a fellow, and worse doin's behind that, if the truth is told."

1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 195:

She didn't need a new dress! Me money! Me hard earned three hundred that I scraped and scrimped for. Me scut of a daughter puttin' it on her back in finery.

1947, Paul Vincent Carroll, The Wise Have Not Spoken: A Drama in Three Acts (French’s Acting Edition; no. 308), London: French, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: Dramatists Play Service, 1954, →OCLC, Act III, scene i, page 49:

I dreamt that Ruairi Quinn was smokin' marijuana in the Dail. Barry Desmond handing Frenchies out to scuts in Fianna Fail.

1985, “Delerium Tremens” (track 2), in Ordinary Man, performed by Christy Moore:

CHRIS. Danny Bradley is a scut, Rose. / ROSE. I never said it was Danny Bradley! / CHRIS. He's a married man with three young children.

1993, Brian Friel, Dancing at Lughnasa, New York, N.Y.: Dramatists Play Service, →ISBN, act I, page 14:

Ruth had snapped open her purse and pulled out a small gun. I grabbed her arm and yanked her into the car; she squawked and her shot went wide. [...] "You scut," she said as we hit the entrance ramp of the interstate. "You're a scut-pumping Conservative. You made me miss."

1997, John Kessel, “The Pure Product”, in The Pure Product: Stories (Tom Doherty Associates Book), New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN; republished in Harry Turtledove, with Martin H[arry] Greenberg, editors, The Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th Century, New York, N.Y.: Del Rey Books, Ballantine Books, 2005, →ISBN, page 322:

Fat-headed scut. That's what he is, scut. Thinks he runs the whole river.

2005, Dean Whitlock, chapter 12, in Sky Carver, New York, N.Y.: Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 108:

(chiefly Ireland, colloquial) A contemptible person.


scut

en-noun

scut (countable and uncountable, plural scuts)

Uncertain; perhaps related to scut (“contemptible person”): see etymology 2.

There's no question that it's sexist. [Female residents] are berated more on rounds, given more scut to do.

1999, Patricia L. Dawson, Forged by the Knife: The Experience of Surgical Residency from the Perspective of a Woman of Color, Seattle, Wash.: Open Hand Pub., →ISBN, page 100:

(medicine, slang) Some menial procedure left for a doctor or medical student to complete, sometimes for training purposes.


horsemeat

horsemeat (usually uncountable, plural horsemeats)

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

In January 2013, supermarkets were hit by an extraordinary scandal as it emerged that foods made of processed 'beef' actually contained horsemeat.

2015, Ian Marcouse, Andrew Hammond, Nigel Watson, Edexcel Business A Level Year 1: Including AS:


pig dog

In Sense 2, a calque of German Schweinehund. Taj Burrow offers two (perhaps fanciful) explanations for Sense 3: that surfers tend to assume a dog-like expression when in this stance (page 119) or that the stance is low and sturdy like a dog (glossary page 171).

The pig-dogs are of rather a mongrel breed, partaking largely of the bull-dog, but mixed with the cross of mastiff and greyhound, which forms the New South Wales kangaroo-dog.

1908, Edward Jerningham Wakefield, Robert Stout, Adventure in New Zealand from 1839 to 1844, published 2010, page 350:

1961, Royal Society of New Zealand, Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand: Zoology, Volume 2, page 221,
Pig dogs have a have a particularly high incidence of E. granulosus and T. hydatigena compared with infections in farm gogs and [this] may be related to the eating of infected sheep carrion rather than wild pigs.

These so-called ‘pig dogs’ chase after the wild pigs, often through rough terrain, and bring them down so that the following hunter can shoot the quarry. There is normally more than one dog involved in the hunt. The pig dogs tend to be powerful crossbreds with Great Dane, Bull Mastiff and/or Pit Bull Terrier blood and sometimes with a dash of Irish Wolfhound or Scottish Deerhound to give them more speed and height.

2009, Jane Duckworth, Not Every Dog Has His Day: The Treatment of Dogs in Australia, page 162:

2009, Evan McHugh, Birdsville, Penguin Group, EasyRead Large Edition, page 139,
Zeus was Ben′s pig dog, an Irish wolfhound crossed with other breeds of hunting dog.

(Australia, New Zealand) A dog bred to hunt wild pigs, typically based on breeds such as Staffordshire Terrier and English Bull Terrier.


merino

merino (countable and uncountable, plural merinos)

(countable) A sheep of a Spanish breed with long, fine hair.


Shetland pony

A small horse of a breed originally from the Shetland Islands


Shetland sheepdog

Shetland sheepdog (plural Shetland sheepdogs)

(zoology) A breed of small sheepdogs, originally from the Shetland Islands.


Sheltie

Probably ultimately representing Old Norse Hjalti (“Shetlander”).


cowhand

From cow + hand, or perhaps blend of cowboy + farmhand.

Though a first rate cow hand he very shortly proved himself to be wholly incapable of acting as head.

1886 April, Theodore Roosevelt, “Ranch Life and Game Shooting in the West”, in Outing, volume 8, number 1, page 3:

I'm an old cowhand from the Rio Grande / but my legs ain't bowed and my cheeks ain't tan […]

1936, “I'm an Old Cowhand (from the Rio Grande)”, Mercer, Johnny (music):

One who tends free-range cattle, especially in the American West.


cowling

She nuzzled between the legs—a bull calf. She continued to nuzzle and clean the little pea-green body that was blue with white patches about his cowling parts.

2003, David Gilet, The Yellow Dot Plague and Other Tales:


cribber

A horse that has the habit of cribbing (seizing a solid object with the teeth and drawing in wind).


currycomb

en-verb

currycomb (third-person singular simple present currycombs, present participle currycombing, simple past and past participle currycombed)

currycombs (present singular third-person)
currycombing (participle present)
currycombed (participle past)
currycombed (past)

(transitive) To groom using such a comb.


red panda

Ailurus fulgens
Ailurus fulgens#Translingual

An omnivorous mammal, Ailurus fulgens, native to the Himalayas and eastern Asia, which has dark red fur and a ringed tail.


Galapagos sea lion

en-noun

Galápagos sea lion (plural Galapagos sea lions)

Galápagos sea lion (canonical)
Galapagos sea lions (plural)

The fur seals can at first sight be confused with the more boisterous Galápagos sea lions.

1991, Martha Holmes, Sea Trek, BBC Books, page 34:

Californian sea lion
Californian sea lion

A small species of sea lion, Zalophus wollebaeki (though sometimes considered a subspecies of the Californian sea lion), that breeds in the Galápagos islands.


bovid

An animal of the family Bovidae (such as the antelope, cattle, goat, and sheep).


placental

From post-classical Latin placentalis, corresponding to placenta + -al.

We do not know exactly how many placental lineages survived to leave descendants; most estimates are around ten.

2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 103:

(zoology) Pertaining to the Placentalia, comprising those mammals not marsupials or monotremes.


Bornean clouded leopard

Bornean clouded leopard (plural Bornean clouded leopards)

Neofelis diardi
Neofelis diardi#Translingual

A species of cat found on Borneo and Sumatra, Neofelis diardi.

leopard b’marki qishom sħab tal-Gżejjer ta’ Sunda


bluey

bluey (countable and uncountable, plural blueys)

(Australian slang) A blue cattle dog, especially a blue heeler.


blinder

From both sides of his head a blackness swiftly grew like blinders on a horse and darkly narrowed his field of vision.

1969, Kenzaburō Ōe, chapter 5, in John Nathan, transl., A Personal Matter, New York: Grove Press, page 84:

Orientalism itself, furthermore, was an exclusively male province; like so many professional guilds during the modern period, it viewed itself and its subject matter with sexist blinders.

1978, Edward Said, Orientalism, New York: Vinatage, published 2003, Chapter 3, Part I, p. 207:

A screen attached to a horse's bridle preventing it from being able to see things to its side.


phalanger

From Ancient Greek φαλάγγιον (phalángion, “spider's web”), from φάλαγξ (phálanx, “spider”), referring to the webbed toes on the hind feet.

der

An arboreal marsupial of the family Phalangeridae, native to Australia.


kang

Why is it built this way?
Oh, it's a kang. It's heated from underneath, like an oven.
Kang? What is a kang for?
A community bed. You'll find them in every inn in north China. We've got lots of rooms, but when winter comes, this is the bed everybody'll be in.
You mean togther?
Thirty, forty, fifty at a time. All fully-clothed and ignoring each other. It gets cold here you'll find out.

1958, 29:45 from the start, in The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, →OCLC:

A traditional long platform of brick, clay or concrete, used for heating in colder parts of China and suitable for sleeping on at night.


giant anteater

Myrmecophaga tridactyla
Myrmecophaga tridactyla#Translingual

The largest species of anteater, Myrmecophaga tridactyla, found in Central and South America.


bighorn

Ovis canadensis
Ovis canadensis#Translingual

especially, Ovis canadensis, having large, curving horns.


howler monkey

At dawn and at sunset the howler monkeys screamed together and the parrakeets broke into shrill chatter, but during the hot hours of the day only the full drone of insects, like the beat of a distant surf, filled the ear, while nothing moved amid the solemn vistas of stupendous trunks, fading away into the darkness which held us in.

1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

A Central American and South American monkey of the genus Alouatta, noted for its loud call.

aluata

loud Central American and South American monkey of the genus Alouatta


ratel

→ Italian: ratelo


Cerberus

From Latin Cerberus, from Ancient Greek Κέρβερος (Kérberos), of unknown origin.

(Greek mythology) The giant three-headed dog who guards the entrance to Hades; and one of the many offspring of Echidna and Typhon.


zorille

From French zorille, from Spanish zorrillo, from zorro (“fox”) + -illo.

Ictonyx striatus, a small, carnivorous, nocturnal African mammal resembling a skunk.


Eurasian badger

en-noun

Eurasian badger (plural Eurasian badgers)

A badger species indigenous to Eurasia, Meles meles.


pine marten

Martes martes
Martes martes#Translingual

A species of marten native to Northern Europe, Martes martes.


European badger

European badger (plural European badgers)


bluepoint

(marine biology) A small oyster, of species Crassostrea virginica, from the eastern United States seaboard.


brindle

brindle (usually uncountable, plural brindles)

Back-formation from brindled, a variant of brinded (“streaked, spotted”), apparently reanalyzed as brindle + -ed. Attested from the late seventeenth century.

I snatch at the puppy closest to me, the brindle, which is limp in my hand, and shove it down my shirt.

2011, Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones, Bloomsbury (2017), page 235:


brindle

en-adj

brindle (comparative more brindle, superlative most brindle)

more brindle (comparative)
most brindle (superlative)

It is brindle. Stripes of black and brown ride its ribs like a zebra’s.

2011, Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones, Bloomsbury (2017), page 18:


brindle

en-verb

brindle (third-person singular simple present brindles, present participle brindling, simple past and past participle brindled)

brindles (present singular third-person)
brindling (participle present)
brindled (participle past)
brindled (past)

Sorely too as I laboured and toiled, the reward of toil would not come ; already my back began to curve, and my hair to brindle itself with gray, yet I saw no luck before me.

1841, The Metropolitan - Volume 30, page 226:

It is the perfect opposition of dark and light that brindles the tiger with gold flame and dark flame.

1925, D.H. Lawrence, Reflections on the Death of Porcupine and Other Essays:

The darkest areas (the points) may brindle or become bleached by brilliant sunlight, especially in chocolate and white points.

1993, Peter Warner, Perfect Cats, page 78:


sook

Unknown origin. From Chesapeake Bay, attested as early as 1948.

The life cycle of the crab in the bay causes a preponderance of adult males (jimmy crabs) to occur in the waters of the upper bay while conversely a concentration of adult females (sook crabs) occurs in the more saline waters near the mouth of the bay (table 2).

1948, John Cleary Pearson, Fluctuations in the Abundance of the Blue Crab in Chesapeake Bay, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, page 4:

(US, eastern shore of Maryland) A mature female Chesapeake Bay blue crab (Callinectes sapidus).


pacer

In harness racing, a horse with a gait in which the front and back legs on one side take a step together alternating with the legs on the other side; as opposed to a trotter.


dasyure

From Ancient Greek δασύς (dasús, “hairy”) + οὐρά (ourá, “tail”).

Any of various Australasian carnivorous marsupials, of the family Dasyuridae, which include the marsupial equivalent to cats


Tasmanian wolf

en-noun

Tasmanian wolf (plural Tasmanian wolves)

Thylacinus cynocephalus
Thylacinus cynocephalus#Translingual

塔斯馬尼亞虎 /塔斯马尼亚虎

Tǎsīmǎníyǎ hǔ


Connemara

/ˌkɑnəˈmɑɹə/

/ˌkɒnɪˈmɑːɹə/

Borrowed from Irish Conamara, from Conmhaícne Mara (literally “the Conmhaícne of the sea”), a branch of an ancient native tribe named Conmhaícne (literally “descendants of Con Mhac”).

A pony of a particular breed native to this Irish district.


haulm

haulm (countable and uncountable, plural haulms)

From Middle English halm, from Old English healm, from Proto-Germanic *halmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱolh₂mos. Cognate with Ancient Greek κάλαμος (kálamos) and Latin culmus. Doublet of calame, calamus, culm, and helm (Etymology 4).

doublet

(uncountable) The stems of various cultivated plants, left after harvesting the crop, which are used as animal food or litter, or for thatching.

слама

stems of cultivated plants left after harvesting


hawkie

(Geordie) A cow with a white face and darker body.


hogget

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

From Middle English hogget, from Anglo-Norman hoget and an Anglo-Latin hogettus.

They were kept in separate flocks; first there were the hoggets, then the oldest of the younger lambs and lastly the very young ones all kept apart from one another […]

1900, Samuel Butler, transl. The Odyssey, Book IX., page 113

(chiefly UK, New Zealand) A young colt or sheep of either gender from about 9 to 18 months of age (until it cuts 2 teeth).

Jungschaf

a young sheep from about 9 to 18 months of age

(chiefly UK, New Zealand) The meat of a young sheep.

(chiefly UK) A young boar of the second year.


hogcote

From hog + cote (“building for domesticated animals”).


zedonk

From the first syllables of zebra and donkey.

A zebroid hybrid that is the offspring of a male zebra and a female donkey


equerry

From an alteration of earlier esquiry (through the influence of the unrelated Latin equus), from Middle French escuirie, escuerie, derivative of escuyer (“squire”), or alternatively from Medieval Latin scuria (“stable”), from Old High German scura (“barn”). Compare esquire.

A bedroom is provided for the equerry and one for the King's physician. […] The compartments for the doctor and equerry are panelled in West African betula and cherry mahogany.

1947 January and February, “South African Royal Train”, in Railway Magazine, pages 36, 47:

(British) A personal attendant to a head of state, a member of a royal family, or a national representative.


equestrianism

en-noun

equestrianism (usually uncountable, plural equestrianisms)

The art or sport of horseriding; the skill required for it.


silvery marmoset

silvery marmoset (plural silvery marmosets)

A Brazilian monkey, Callithrix argentata, having white fur, a dark tail, and naked ears


Faroes

A breed of domestic sheep, native to the Faroe Islands


seg

Probably from the root of Latin secāre (“to cut”).

(UK, Scotland, dialect, obsolete) A castrated farm animal.


sea calf

sea calf (plural sea calves or (proscribed) sea calfs)

sea calves (plural)
sea calfs (plural proscribed)

Phoca vitulina
Phoca vitulina#Translingual

(obsolete) The common seal, Phoca vitulina.


saber-toothed tiger

saber-toothed tiger (plural saber-toothed tigers)

Any of numerous species of prehistoric cat-like mammals (principally in the subfamily Machairodontinae), characterized by massive, but short, legs and two large canine teeth, each about seven inches long and shaped like a saber.


creodont

From κρέας (kréas, “flesh”) + οδοντ- (odont-, “tooth”).

A member of the extinct Creodonta order of mammals that lived from the Paleocene to the Pliocene epoch.


harness racing

A form of horse racing in which the horses race in a specified gait, usually pulling two-wheeled carts called sulkies.


saiga

From Russian сайга́ (sajgá), alternative form of сайга́к (sajgák), from Chagatai سایغاق (saiɣak, “chamois”).

Its ʽcore faunaʼ consisted of the woolly mammoth, woolly rhino, saiga, muskox and the arctic fox. All except the woolly rhino evolved in the northern Arctic, and all had been evolving for several million years before their modern forms appeared.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 205:

Saiga tatarica, an antelope which inhabits a vast area between Kalmykia, Kazakhstan, southern Siberia.

possibly a subspecies Saiga tatarica mongolica


hunting-crop

Bonamy took up a bill for a hunting-crop.

1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 173

"Even in his most temperate moments he is constantly felling people with a hunting-crop."

1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 19:

A hunting whip, without a thong, that can be used for opening gates.


Iberian lynx

The Iberian lynx is the largest carnivore unique to Europe.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 285:

Lynx pardinus
Lynx pardinus#Translingual

An endangered species of lynx, Lynx pardinus, native to the Iberian peninsula.


fleabag

‘[E]veryone knows that Charlie […] takes little girls up to a room in that horrible flea-bag; but he's a respectable man just the same.’

1973, Christina Stead, The Little Hotel, Text Classics, published 2016, page 184:

[W]hat Olin could do was take himself on out of the agent's office at a rapid hike and thank God all the way back to the fleabag where he worked that Mike Enslin had decided not to sue either the hotel or Olin for negligence.

1999, Stephen King, “1408”, in Everything's Eventual, published 2002:

(slang) A place of shabby lodging, particularly a filthy hotel or run-down apartment.

He's become a real fleabag recently. Time for a bath!

Get out of the way, you fleabag!

(slang) A mammal whom the speaker dislikes.


suslik

suslik (countable and uncountable, plural susliks)

Any of several large Eurasian squirrels, of the genera Citellus or Spermophilus.


asse

Perhaps from Afrikaans asse (“ashes”), because the fur at the top of the Cape fox's body looks like ash.

and the little Asse Fox (Canis chama).

1906, Praagh, L. V, The Transvaal and its mines : the encyclopedic history of the Transvaal:

South of the Zambezi the group reappears in the shape of the asse-fox or fennec, (V. cama), a dark-coloured species, with a black tip to the long, bushy tail and reddish-brown ears.

1910, Encyclopædia Britannica 1911 ed. Vol. 10, page 769:

Foxes involved include the long-eared Asse Fox or Cape Fox (Vulpes chania) and the bat-eared fox

1973, West, Geoffrey P. (Geoffrey Philip), Rabies in animals & man, New York, Arco, →ISBN, →OCLC:


houndstooth

From hound + -s- + tooth, from its appearance.
Although the pattern itself is archaeologically found from time immemorial, the modern term is first attested in 1936.

Their ties were tidier, their houndsteeth toothier … they ended up looking more Windsorian than Windsor.

1970, Men's Wear, volume 161, New York, N.Y.: Fairchild Publications, →OCLC, page 73, column 1:

Her dress is wool too, brown and black houndsteeth that belonged to her mother.

2014, Jacinda Townsend, “Jupiter”, in Saint Monkey: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 68:

Fabric with a houndstooth pattern; an item of clothing made with such fabric.


binky

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* Perhaps a child's pronunciation of blanket.
* (US) Commercial child's pacifier brand name. (1948–1977)

(informal, childish) A stuffed animal, pillow, blanket, or toy that a small child is more attached to than any other, and often sleeps with.


vison

Neovison vison
Neovison vison#Translingual

Mustela vison
Mustela vison#Translingual

The American mink, variously classified as Neovison vison or Mustela vison.


Rottweiler

Borrowed from German Rottweiler, from German Rottweil.

A very large muscular breed of dog of German origin with black fur and tanned markings.


megathere

From Ancient Greek μέγας (mégas, “large”) + θηρίον (thēríon, “wild beast”).

An extinct, gigantic, ground sloth (genus Megatherium) that flourished in South America during the Pleistocene epoch.


Invisible Pink Unicorn

en-proper noun

Invisible Pink Unicorn (plural Invisible Pink Unicorns)

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If you feel it is the duty of others to refute the claim, and not of yourself to support it, then how about refuting the existence of invisible pink unicorns?

1990 July 17, je kanker moeder, “Re: 'Proof' of God's Existence”, in alt.atheism (Usenet), retrieved 2010-09-30, message-ID <3704@qip.UUCP>:

Invisible Pink Unicorns are beings of great spiritual power. We know this because they are capable of being invisible and pink at the same time. Like all religions, the Faith of the Invisible Pink Unicorns is based upon both logic and faith. We have faith that they are pink; we logically know that they are invisible because we can't see them.

From a quite opposite perspective, an interesting departure of the 1990s (largely on the internet, and still flourishing) is the cult of the Invisible Pink Unicorn, which is at least in part a philosophical tool for examining the nature of religious faith from a skeptical point of view.

2007, Nigel Suckling, Unicorns, Facts, Figures, & Fun, →ISBN, page 94:

(Internet slang, humorous) A unicorn goddess who is simultaneously invisible and pink, used in arguments against faith in an unprovable deity.


metatherian

The pouched metatherians, the progenitors of marsupials, used to be common all over North America.

2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 102:

(zoology) A member of the infraclass Metatheria.


grandsire

From Middle English graunsire; compare grand and sire.

paternal grandfather
paternal grandfather

(equestrianism) The sire of a sire, paternal grandfather


true seal

Any of the seals in the taxonomic family Phocidae; earless seal.


earless seal

Any of the seals in the taxonomic family Phocidae characterized by lacking external ear flaps; true seals.


grey seal

Halichoerus grypus
Halichoerus grypus#Translingual


Saimaa ringed seal

en-noun

Saimaa ringed seal (plural Saimaa ringed seals)

A subspecies of the ringed seal, living only in Lake Saimaa in Finland.


horseflesh

Bahama mahogany, wood from species Lysiloma sabicu and Lysiloma latisiliquum.


finback

Balaenoptera physalus
Balaenoptera physalus#Translingual

A large baleen whale, Balaenoptera physalus, that has a ridge on its back; the fin whale.


baleen whale

Any of several large whales, of the parvorder Mysticeti, that have plates of whalebone (baleen) instead of teeth.


whalebone

whalebone (countable and uncountable, plural whalebones)

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“You have probably never seen anything like this before, Mr. Toler. It is baleen, or if you prefer it, whalebone, taken from the mouth of the bowhead whale. It is used by the whale to filter its food.”

1954, Alexander Alderson, chapter 5, in The Subtle Minotaur:

The horny material from the fringed plates of the upper jaw of baleen whales that are used to filter plankton; once used as stays in corsets

балена

horny material from fringed plates of upper jaw of baleen whale


artiodactyl

/ˌɑːtɪəʊˈdaktɪl/

From scientific Latin Artiodactyla (suborder name), from Ancient Greek ἄρτιος (ártios, “even”) + δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “finger, toe”).

I have been unable to find out if these are linked in some way to the 1945 Budapest hippos, with the possibility this would create of a parallel history of Central Europe seen through the endurance of one brave African artiodactyl family.

2013, Simon Winder, Danubia, Picador, published 2014, page 397:

(zoology) Any ungulate mammal with an even number of toes and belonging to the Artiodactyla, including pigs, sheep, deer, cattle, and most grazing animals. In contrast, horses have an odd number of toes and as such are not Artiodactyla, but Perissodactyla.

Чифтокопитен

any ungulate mammal with an even number of toes


perissodactyl

From Ancient Greek περισσός (perissós, “uneven”) + δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “a finger, toe”).

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The chalicotheres were among the strangest mammals that ever lived. They were perissodactyls - relatives of horses, rhinos and tapirs - and if all you had seen of one was its head, you might have mistaken it for a very strange horse.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 102:

Any ungulate mammal with an odd number of toes and belonging to the Perissodactyla, an equid, a tapir, or a rhinoceros.


leaf-nosed bat

A bat of the family Phyllostomidae, having a pointed projection on the snout.


arvicole

From Latin arvum (“field”) + colo (“I inhabit”); compare Italian arvicola.

A single species, A. quasiater, is known from Mexico. Evotomys rutilus, a form very closely related to the arvicoles, inhabits the circumpolar regions of both hemispheres.

1887, Angelo Heilprin, The Geographical and Geological Distribution of Animals, page 356:

(zoology, dated) field mouse (US, Canada), vole


foumart

From Middle English fulmard, from Old English fūl (“foul”) + mearþ (“marten”), in reference to its offensive smell.

(chiefly Scotland) A European polecat; a member of the Mustelidae family.


white-tailed deer

en-noun

white-tailed deer (plural white-tailed deer)

Odocoileus virginianus
Odocoileus virginianus#Translingual

A medium-sized deer found throughout most of North and Central America and northern portions of South America; Odocoileus virginianus.


grimalkin

/ɡɹɪˈmɔːl.kɪn/

From grey + malkin; literally "grey-haired cat" or "grey-haired woman".

(archaic) A bad-tempered old woman; a crone.


equid

Any animal of the taxonomic family Equidae, including any equine (horse, zebra, ass, mule, etc.).

馬科動物 /马科动物

any animal of the taxonomic family Equidae


Finnish forest reindeer

Finnish forest reindeer (plural Finnish forest reindeer)

Rangifer tarandus fennicus
Rangifer tarandus fennicus#Translingual

A subspecies of the reindeer, Rangifer tarandus fennicus, found only in Eastern Finland and Russian Karelia.


mountain reindeer

mountain reindeer (plural mountain reindeer)

Wikispecies mountain reindeer (canonical)
mountain reindeer (plural)

A subspecies of reindeer, found wild in southern Norway and Kola peninsula in Russia; Rangifer tarandus tarandus. A semi-domesticated variant is widely herded by the Sami in northern Scandinavia.


ailurophobe

/aɪˈljʊəɹəˌfəʊb/

/aɪˈlʊɹəˌfoʊb/

/eɪˈlʊɹəˌfoʊb/

A person with an irrational fear or hatred of felines.


schipperke

From Belgian Dutch (Flemish), but unclear at the word level.
* Conventionally taken to be schipper (“skipper”) + -ke (“diminutive suffix”), allegedly alluding to a role as watchdog and/or rodent catcher on canal boats.
* Alternatively, a mutation of scheperke, a diminutive of scheper (“shepherd, sheepdog”), referring to the breed's purported descent from an extinct larger breed of sheepdogs.
Related to the etymological debate is a longstanding informal one about whether the dog itself should be regarded as a spitz or a miniature sheepdog.
For more, see Schipperke § History on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

pedia

(zoology) A small breed of dog developed in Belgium, sometimes used as a watchdog on boats.


sugar glider

As with other exotic pets, sound husbandry is essential for captive sugar gliders to flourish.

2003, Chris Pinney, The Complete Home Veterinary Guide, page 510:

As in the eastern pygmy possum (van Tets and Hulbert 1999), this is reflected in a very low nitrogen requirement in sugar gliders (Smith and Green 1987), and probably all sap feeders.

2005, C. Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe, Life of Marsupials, page 209:

The animals on the cover of Learning PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, and CSS are sugar gliders (Petaurus breviceps). Sugar gliders are small, gray-furred creatures that grow to an adult length of six to seven-and-a-half inches.[…]This ensures that of the group will know when an outsider approaches; group members will fight off any sugar glider not bearing their scent.

2012, Robin Nixon, Learning PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, and CSS, 2nd edition, O'Reilly, page 557:

Petaurus breviceps
Petaurus breviceps#Translingual

Petaurus breviceps, an omnivorous gliding arboreal marsupial, endemic to mainland Australia and New Guinea, and introduced to Tasmania in 1835.


maremma

A Maremma Sheepdog or Maremmano-Abruzzese Sheepdog.


gee up

en-verb

gee up (third-person singular simple present gees up, present participle geeing up, simple past and past participle geed up)

gees up (present singular third-person)
geeing up (participle present)
geed up (participle past)
geed up (past)

"US fund manager Eric Knight has a fearful reputation as a shareholder activist, geeing up underperforming managements at Royal Dutch Shell and Suez." – HSBC: activist pounces, The Week, 15 September 2007, 631, 43.

(slang) To excite in order to try to achieve a desired result.


musth

en-noun

musth (countable and uncountable, plural musths)

Persian مست (mast, “drunk, inebriated”).

At MalaMala we are charged by a bull elephant. The late sun reflecting on the moisture at his temporal gland shows he is in musth, and mad with lust, and we have inadvertently separated him from the breeding cows of his desire.

2006, Peter Godwin, When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa:

A time during which male elephants exhibit increased levels of sexual activity and aggressiveness and often secrete leaking temporin from the sides of their heads.


korin

Aoudads, korins, mhorrs and mambas. Hartebeests. Wild asses. Rats the size of piglets […]

1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 64:

A small gazelle native to West Africa, Eudorcas rufifrons.


clouded leopard

clouded leopard (plural clouded leopards)

Neofelis nebulosa
Neofelis nebulosa#Translingual

A medium-sized, arboreal cat (Neofelis nebulosa) found in Southeast Asia.

leopard b’marki qishom sħab tal-kontinent


Iriomote cat

(zoology) A small wild cat, Prionailurus iriomotensis, found only on the Japanese island of Iriomote. It has a long, dark brown coat with darker rows of horizontal spots.


rodentology

a branch of mammalogy for the study of rodents by a rodentologist.


Jack Russell

From the Reverend Jack Russell (1795–1883) who developed the breed in the early 19th century.

A breed of terrier dog, usually white with brown patches and commonly found domesticated and kept as pets.


fin whale

The fin whale is a fast swimmer (around 30km/h) and generally lives in small groups numbering around five.

2019, James Proctor, Faroe Islands, 5th edition, Bradt Travel Guides, page 7:

A whale of the rorqual family (Balaenoptera physalus).


sei whale

Partial translation of Norwegian seihval, seikval, from sei (“pollock”) + hval/kval (“whale”).

Balaenoptera borealis
Balaenoptera borealis#Translingual

A whale of the rorqual family (Balaenoptera borealis).


Cymric

From Welsh Cymru (“Wales”) + -ic (adjective-forming suffix). Doublet of Cumbric and cognate with English Cambrian and Cymry.

Manx cat

the original, short-haired version of the breed

A breed of domestic cat, developed in Canada, principally characterized by suppression of the tail and by a semi-long-haired coat, with a medium-sized, rounded, cobby body; it is the longhair version of the Manx cat.


takin

From a Tibeto-Burman language, probably Miju or Taraon.

Budorcas taxicolor
Budorcas taxicolor#Translingual

A goat-antelope, of species Budorcas taxicolor.


aspin

Borrowed from Tagalog aspin, a blend of aso + Pinoy, suggested by the Philippine Animal Welfare Society as an alternative to askal.

(Philippines) A variety of mongrel dog breed in the Philippines.


big cat

Any large felid animal, especially one of the Panthera genus, including tigers, lions, jaguars and leopards.


scrub wallaby

She waved out the sidewindow, ‘Another scrub wallaby! That's fifteen not including your side.’

2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 16:

black-striped wallaby
black-striped wallaby

Any of various wallabies living in dense vegetation, especially the black-striped wallaby, Macropus dorsalis, of eastern Queensland and New South Wales.


black-striped wallaby

black-striped wallaby (plural black-striped wallabies)

A medium-sized wallaby, Macropus dorsalis, from Queensland and New South Wales


mico

A small South American monkey (Mico melanurus, syn. Callithrix melanura), allied to the marmoset.


doeling

Before your kids are born, decide how many doelings you will keep and stick with it.

1994, Carla Emery, The Encyclopedia of Country Living ninth edition, Sasquatch Books, Seattle Washington, page 715

A female domestic goat of less than one year of age.


pollard

From poll (“head, scalp”) + -ard. The coin sense derives from the original penny's uncrowned obverse bust, as opposed to the laurel-wreathed form appearing on the rosary. The verb derives from the noun.

The enclosure was indeed little beyond that of a good-sized paddock – its boundaries were visible on every side – but swelling uplands, covered with massy foliage sloped down to its wild irregular turf soil – soil poor for pasturage, but pleasant to the eye; with dell and dingle, bosks of fantastic pollards – dotted oaks of vast growth – here and there a weird hollow thorn-tree – patches of fern and gorse.

1857, Pisistratus Caxton [pseudonym; Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter I, in What will He Do with It? (Collection of British Authors; CCCCVII), Tauchnitz edition, volume I, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, →OCLC, book II, page 140:

Only a little pollard hedge kept us from their blood-shot eyes.

1869, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, “Chapter 65”, in Lorna Doone:

Nothing was to be seen save flat meadows, cows feeding unconcernedly for the most part, and silvery pollard willows motionless in the warm sunlight.

1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 98:

And at this place there was a long, straight causeway, with two long rows of pollard willows, one upon either hand.

1903, Howard Pyle, The Story of King Arthur and His Knights, Part III, Chapter Third, page 116

(often attributive) A pruned tree; the wood of such trees.

Squalius cephalus
Squalius cephalus#Translingual

Leuciscus cephalus
Leuciscus cephalus#Translingual

(obsolete, rare) A European chub (Squalius cephalus, syn. Leuciscus cephalus), a kind of fish.

(now Australia) A fine grade of bran including some flour. The fine cell layer between bran layers and endosperm, used for animal feed.

(numismatics, historical) A 13th-century European coin minted as a debased counterfeit of the sterling silver penny of Edward I of England, at first legally accepted as a halfpenny and then outlawed.