chromodacryorrhea

red lacrimal secretion, typically in rats (the production of so-called "bloody tears")


break one's maiden

en-verb

break one's maiden (third-person singular simple present breaks one's maiden, present participle breaking one's maiden, simple past broke one's maiden, past participle broken one's maiden)

breaks one's maiden (present singular third-person)
breaking one's maiden (participle present)
broke one's maiden (past)
broken one's maiden (participle past)

(horse racing) Of a racehorse or jockey: to achieve victory in a race for the first time.


inioid

Any river dolphin of the superfamily Inioidea


flipperling

1893 August, Rudyard Kipling, "Seal Lullaby", in "The White Seal", National Review.
Where billow meets billow, there soft be thy pillow; / Ah, weary wee flipperling, curl at thy ease!

There the flipperlings—young seals—are born, and from there, as the ice begins to break up with the spring, they and their parents come floating southwards on huge blocks of ice.

1921, The Literary Digest, volume 71, page 20:

At last an unwary cod, in flight from the big male, sped close beside the flipperling.

1936, Latrobe Carroll, The Canadian Magazine:


ram-cat

Tom very gravely replied, that he did suppose the food was wholesome enough, for he had seen the skin and feet of a special ram-cat, new flea'd, hanging upon the door of a small pantry adjoining to the kitchen.

1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:


horse litter

/ˈhɔːsˌlɪtə/

A litter pulled or borne by one horse or borne on poles borne by two or more horses.

takhtrawan

enclosed Middle Eastern & South Asian form


quenk

Quenk are found in forested areas throughout the island and travel in bands of five to 15 males and females of all ages.

1979, M. E. Alkins, The Mammals of Trinidad, page 47:

One hunter who hunts quenks claimed that dogs are trained to hunt small game first.

2001, Cheryl Lans, Creole remedies: case studies of ethnoveterinary medicine in Trinidad and Tobago, page 126:

Unlike the true pig to which it is related, the quenk produces one or two young that are fully formed at birth. Quenk are rarely seen today, but still exist in the north-east and south-east of Trinidad.

2008, J. S. Kenny, The Biological Diversity of Trinidad and Tobago: A Naturalist's Notes:

collared peccary
collared peccary#English

(Trinidad and Tobago) Synonym of collared peccary


wild goat

Capra aegagrus
Capra aegagrus#Translingual

Capra aegagrus, a species or goat believed ancestral to and including the domestic goat.


on the rails

(horse racing) Racing toward the inside, near the fence that bounds the track.


Belgian hare

Its precursors were bred in Belgium in the early 18th century.

A fancy breed of domestic rabbit (not a true hare) that has been selectively bred to resemble the wild hare, with a slender wiry frame and long powerful legs.


giraffe gazelle

en-noun

giraffe gazelle (plural giraffe gazelles)


typotherian

Any extinct mammal of the suborder †Typotheria


titanohyracid

Any extinct hyrax of the genus †Titanohyrax


paranthropine

Any extinct hominid of the genus †Paranthropus


russel

russel (countable and uncountable, plural russels)

From Old French roussel, from Latin russulus, diminutive of russus (“red”).

(countable, uncountable, historical) A twilled woolen material.

And dan ruſſel the fox stert up at onys
And be gorget hent chanteclere
And on his bake toward the wode him bere.

1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Tale of the Nonnes Preest”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, line 8:

And dan russel the fox started up at once
And by the gorge seized Chanticleer
And on his back toward the wood him bare.


barrier rogue

(Australia, horse racing) A racehorse that is difficult to control when being put into the starting gates.


serpent-eater

A wild goat of India and Kashmir, the markhor.


change the leg

en-verb

change the leg (third-person singular simple present changes the leg, present participle changing the leg, simple past and past participle changed the leg)

changes the leg (present singular third-person)
changing the leg (participle present)
changed the leg (participle past)
changed the leg (past)

(equestrianism) To change the gait of a horse while riding.


Dales pony

The horse is strongly associated with the Yorkshire Dales in northern England.

A mountain and moorland pony breed native to the United Kingdom.


Socks

A popular name for a cat that is mainly black but has white paws.


running rail

(horse racing) A fence which marks the inside edge of a racecourse track.


horse collar

Coordinate term: hame

A part of a horse's harness that is used to distribute the load around its neck and shoulders when pulling a wagon or plough.


molosser

Derived from Molossia, an area of ancient Epirus, where the large shepherd dog was known as a Molossus

(zoology) A dog of various large, solidly-built breeds, typically having heavy bones, pendant ears, and a relatively short and well-muscled neck with a short, broad muzzle.


sheep in wolf's clothing

en-noun

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

Humorous alteration of wolf in sheep's clothing.

The hunter-insects, as we have seen, disguise themselves so as to get near their victims unawares, and the hunted disguise themselves very often in the same way so as to avoid being seen, but sometimes in such a way that if they are seen they may appear to be much more terrible creatures than they really are. And so we have the sheep in wolves’ clothing.

1910, Douglas English, A Book of Nimble Beasts: Bunny Rabbit, Squirrel, Toad, and “Those Sort of People”, London: Eveleigh Nash, page 221:

Someone or something that appears fierce or threatening but is actually harmless or means no harm.


hitching rail

A horizontal rail with vertical supports to which a horse can be hitched, or tied up to.


shitbull

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

I went upstairs and got some hamburger and lured pitbull shitbull into my garage.

1999 April 23, TICKYUL, “"PITBULL WAS MY BITCH" a true story”, in rec.pets.dogs.breeds (Usenet):

Better than to have bred and kept shitbulls.

1999 June 8, The Speedbyrd®, “Re: My Pit Bull”, in alt.pets.dogs.pitbull (Usenet):

Forth,^([sic]) I know for a fact that the shitbull that twice attacked my dog (and subsequently tried to eat my hands) was not raised by scummy people, was not trained to attack, didn't hang from a tire in some ghetto front yard, and seems quite friendly.

2001 February 7, boobp...@my-deja.com, “Re: Good ambassador for pitbulldom”, in rec.pets.dogs.breeds (Usenet):

(vulgar, derogatory) A pit bull terrier.


velvet hippo

Presumably an allusion to the large size and short coat of pit bull-type dogs or their reputation for aggression and unpredictability.

My real life angel is my very own velvet hippo named Angel, and she is magical.

2014, Rebecca Corry, "Dog Moms Making A Difference: Rebecca Corry", American Dog, Winter 2014, page 22

Velvet Hippo, Silver Shark—those are only a couple of the names that June's fans call her.

2017 August 4, “Pet of the week: June”, in Signal Tribune, page 13:

“This Velcro dog sounds just about perfect to us and we know there’s a family out there waiting to spend their nights binge-watching Netflix and snuggling with this sweet velvet hippo,” the shelter wrote on Facebook.

2018 March 7, Savannah Brock, “Lovable ‘Velcro dog’ returned to Georgia animal shelter for 'being too nice’”, in KSDK:


beardog

Fossils of the Order Carnivora found in the dens include members of three families: Amphicyonidae (beardogs), Mustelidae (wolverine and marten-like species), and Canidae (small fox-like species).

2019, Robert M. Hunt, Jr., Robert Skolnick, Joshua Kaufman, The Carnivores of Agate Fossil Beds National Monument, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 81:

A member of the extinct carnivoran family Amphicyonidae.


Andean hairy armadillo

Andean hairy armadillo (plural Andean hairy armadillos)

A species of armadillo, Chaetophractus nationi, found in western Bolivia and adjacent areas of South America.


Darwin's fox

Lycalopex fulvipes
Lycalopex fulvipes#Translingual

A fox-like South American canid of species Lycalopex fulvipes, found predominantly on Chiloé.


Commerson's dolphin

Commerson's dolphin (plural Commerson's dolphins)

Named after French naturalist Dr Philibert Commerson, who first described them in 1767 after sighting them in the Strait of Magellan.

A species of oceanic dolphin, Cephalorhynchus commersonii, found in South America and the Kerguelen Islands


piebald dolphin

piebald dolphin (plural piebald dolphins)


panda dolphin

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

Commerson's dolphin (Cephalorhynchus commersonii)


north Andean deer

north Andean deer (plural north Andean deer)

A species of deer, Hippocamelus antisensis, found in the central Andean Mountains.


short-tailed chinchilla

short-tailed chinchilla (plural short-tailed chinchillas)

A species of chinchilla, Chinchilla chinchilla, found in South America.


Bolivian chinchilla

Bolivian chinchilla (plural Bolivian chinchillas)

short-tailed chinchilla
short-tailed chinchilla


Peruvian chinchilla

Peruvian chinchilla (plural Peruvian chinchillas)


royal chinchilla

royal chinchilla (plural royal chinchillas)


long-tailed chinchilla

long-tailed chinchilla (plural long-tailed chinchillas)

Any of the species Chinchilla lanigera, found in South America.


Chilean chinchilla

Chilean chinchilla (plural Chilean chinchillas)

long-tailed chinchilla
long-tailed chinchilla


coastal chinchilla

coastal chinchilla (plural coastal chinchillas)


common chinchilla

common chinchilla (plural common chinchillas)


lesser chinchilla

lesser chinchilla (plural lesser chinchillas)


southern viscacha

southern viscacha (plural southern viscachas)

A species of rodent, Lagidium viscacia, found in South America.


northern viscacha

northern viscacha (plural northern viscachas)

A species of rodent (Lagidium peruanum, found in South America.


coruro

A species of rodent, Spalacopus cyanus, found in South America.


bunny rat

A species of rodent, Reithrodon auritus, found in southern South America.


hairy-soled conyrat

hairy-soled conyrat (plural hairy-soled conyrats)


California sea lion

California sea lion (plural California sea lions)

A sea lion, of species Zalophus californianus, found in western North America.


Long-Evans rat

Developed by Drs. Long and Evans in 1915 by crossing Wistar females with a wild gray male.

An outbred rat used in medical research, white with a black or brown hood.


Lewis rat

Bred by Margaret Lewis from Wistar stock in the early 1950s.

A kind of albino rat used in medical research, exhibiting docile behavior and low fertility, and suffering from high incidences of neoplasms and other pathology.


biobreeding rat

biobreeding rat (plural biobreeding rats)

A kind of inbred rat, used in medical research, that spontaneously develops autoimmune type 1 diabetes.


Rowett nude rat

Rowett nude rat (plural Rowett nude rats)

A kind of rat with no thymus and thus a severely compromised immune system, used in medical research.


cat-sit

en-verb

cat-sit (third-person singular simple present cat-sits, present participle cat-sitting, simple past and past participle cat-sat)

cat-sits (present singular third-person)
cat-sitting (participle present)
cat-sat (participle past)
cat-sat (past)

If you are a cat lover, you can cat-sit for a season in some spiffy house or apartment.

1972, Lavinia Russ, A high old time: or, How to enjoy being a woman over sixty, page 194:

Polly Duncan has a new kitten and I agreed to cat-sit, but he turned out to be a wound-up, hyperactive, jet-propelled maniac!

1990, Lilian Jackson Braun, The Cat who Talked to Ghosts, page 227:

Suzana was off to the Burning Man festival this year and wanted me to be home in time to cat-sit, though she'd tried not to hint too broadly.

2014, Janine Ashbless, Cover Him with Darkness, page 25:


Coues' rice rat

en-noun

Coues' rice rat (plural Coues' rice rats)

Named in honor of American naturalist Elliott Coues.

Oryzomys couesi, a semiaquatic rodent in the family Cricetidae occurring from southernmost Texas through Mexico and Central America into northwestern Colombia.


detack

en-verb

detack (third-person singular simple present detacks, present participle detacking, simple past and past participle detacked)

detacks (present singular third-person)
detacking (participle present)
detacked (participle past)
detacked (past)

(transitive) To remove the tack (harness, reins, saddle etc.) from a horse.


desultor

(historical) A person skilled at leaping from one horse or chariot to another.


ailurine

From New Latin Ailurinae (“taxonomic subfamily”), as Ailurus + -ine.


greyhound racing

The sport of racing greyhounds around a track, originally in pursuit of a live hare, now in pursuit of an artificial lure.


dog handler

A person trained to handle a dog, especially a police dog or a K-9 unit in the military


dope dog

Often the hiding places are so obscure, only a dope dog will find the evidence. If your department has a dog, it is well worth using the dog for searches.

1992, Gary J. Miller, Drugs and the Law: Detection, Recognition & Investigation:

It heated and cooled everything on the ship from the admiral's cabin to the kennel for Duke, the dope dog, who was riding along to sniff out any caches of drugs.

1988, George C. Wilson, Supercarrier: an inside account of life aboard the world's most powerful ship, the USS John F. Kennedy:


dingiso

A tree kangaroo Dendrolagus mbaiso of New Guinea


docodontan

Any extinct mammaliaform of the order Docodonta


eutriconodontan

Any extinct mammal of the order Eutriconodonta


afropithecine

From translingual Afropithecidae + -ine (“related to”).

af

translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Afropithecidae</i>

Any hominoid of the family †Afropithecidae


American buffalo

en-noun

American buffalo (plural American buffalo or American buffalos or American buffaloes)

American buffalo (plural)
American buffalos (plural)
American buffaloes (plural)

A gold bullion coin first offered for sale by the United States Mint in 2006.


plains buffalo

Bison bison bison
Bison bison bison#Translingual

Bison bison bison; Synonym of plains bison


wood buffalo

Bison bison athabascae
Bison bison athabascae#Translingual

Bison bison athabascae; Synonym of wood bison


North American buffalo

North American buffalo (plural North American buffalo)

American buffalo
American buffalo#English

Bison bison (“B. bison”); Synonym of American bison (“American buffalo”)


sivapithecine

An extinct hominid of the genus †Sivapithecus.


adapisoriculid

The most abundant were fifteen-centimetre-long nocturnal eaters of insects and fruit known as adapisoriculids.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 52:

An extinct eutherian mammal of the family †Adapisoriculidae.


pampathere

Any extinct armadillo of the family †Pampatheriidae


polydolopimorphian

Any extinct metatherian of the order †Polydolopimorphia


Cavoodle

A crossbreed dog, the offspring of a poodle and a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel.


greater kudu

A kudu of species Tragelaphus strepsiceros, of eastern and southern Africa.


ferret-badger

(zoology) Any of several small mustelid omnivores of the genus Melogale, of southern and eastern Asia, having a bushy tail and distinctive white or yellow markings on a black face.


Cape hyrax

Cape hyrax (plural Cape hyraxes or Cape hyraces)

Cape hyraxes (plural)
Cape hyraces (plural)

From Cape + hyrax.
Ellipsis of Cape rock hyrax..
From Cape of Good Hope, from cape.

Procavia capensis
Procavia capensis#Translingual

The Procavia capensis (“P. capensis”). A mammal with a rodent-like appearance, but not closely related, related instead to the elephant, found in Africa and the Middle East.

An animal of this kind of the subpopulation found in Southern/South Africa.


Cape rock hyrax

Cape rock hyrax (plural Cape rock hyraxes or Cape rock hyraces)

Cape rock hyraxes (plural)
Cape rock hyraces (plural)

From Cape + rock hyrax.
From Cape of Good Hope, from cape.


rock badger

From rock + badger.
From Afrikaans dassie,
from Dutch das (“badger”).

Any of species Procavia capensis of mammals with a rodent-like appearance, but not closely related, related instead to the elephant, found in Africa and the Middle East.


dasyuromorph

Any marsupial of the order Dasyuromorphia


meridiolestidan

Any extinct mammal of the clade †Meridiolestida


turnspit dog

(archaic) A short-legged, long-bodied dog, now extinct, bred to run on a wheel to turn a spit.


trechnothere

Any mammal of the subclass Trechnotheria


vombatiform

Any marsupial of the suborder Vombatiformes


deperetellid

Any extinct tapir of the family †Deperetellidae


helaletid

Any extinct tapir of the family Helaletidae


batsicle

But there's no answer. Marcie won't let you out, you realize, until you're frozen solid.
Too bad, but you made the wrong choice. And it looks as if you'll end this adventure as a batsicle!

1995, R. L. Stine, Give Yourself Goosebumps: Trapped in Bat Wing Hall, unnumbered page:

[…] They had to drop the bats from high altitudes to keep the bombers from getting shot down, and at those altitudes the bats froze solid and dropped like chunks of ice. What a way to die—clunked on the head by a frozen batsicle."

2009, Tim Downs, Ends of the Earth, pages 275–276:

Most Eastern Red Bats migrate south to avoid winter weather. But some red bats stick around. They keep from becoming batsicles by sleeping under dead leaves on the forest floor when temperatures fall below freezing.

2017, "Strange but True!", Xplor, January/February 2017, page 17

(informal, humorous) A cold or frozen bat.


Laika

A female dog who was sent into space by the Soviet Union on November 3, 1957, aboard Sputnik 2. She died in space.


English cocker spaniel

English cocker spaniel (plural English cocker spaniels)

A gun dog of a breed, for the sport of cocking, or bird hunting.


Mentawai gibbon

Mentawai gibbon (plural Mentawai gibbons)

Synonym of Kloss's gibbon (Hylobates klossii)


Kloss's gibbon

Calque of translingual Hylobates klossii (literally “Kloss’s gibbon”).

clq

A small black gibbon (Hylobates klossii), of the Mentawai Islands to the west of Sumatra.


kolonok

Mustela sibirica
Mustela sibirica#Translingual

The Siberian weasel or kolinsky (Mustela sibirica).


he-bear

A male bear (as opposed to a she-bear, female bear).


tuna junkie

(slang) A cat that has developed a strong preference for tuna and may refuse to eat anything else.


Stone sheep

Grasses and forbs comprise the major portion of the Stone sheep's diet.

2000, Vin T. Sparano, The Complete Outdoors Encyclopedia, page 213:

Ovis dalli stonei, a sheep native to northern British Columbia


Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin

en-noun

Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin (plural Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins)

A species of dolphin (Sousa chinensis), of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.


pink dolphin

Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin
Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin

A subspecies of the Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin (Sousa chinensis chinensis), of the Pearl River Delta, which gain pink coloration as they age.


Amazon River dolphin

Amazon River dolphin (plural Amazon River dolphins)

Inia geoffrensis
Inia geoffrensis#Translingual

A species of dolphin (Inia geoffrensis) of the Amazon River.


flagfall

Boyce took him ahead at the flagfall , with the Hughes horse in pursuit

June 22, 2020, David Milnes, The Lir Jet swoops late to deny Wesley Ward's Golden Pal in Norfolk in The Racing Post
The result looked unlikely soon after flagfall when Wesley Ward's Golden Pal blazed a trail down the centre of the track under Andrea Atzeni

(horse racing) The start of a horse race


apess

Yet, though his limbs with pile were rough, / And though his tail was long enough / […] / Th’ apesses [he] treated with disdain[.]

1865, Richard Francis Burton, “Dirge.”, in Stone Talk (Λιθοφωνημα / Lithophonema): Being Some of the Marvellous Sayings of a Petral Portion of Fleet Street, London, to One Doctor Polyglott, Ph.D., London: Hardwicke, Robert, pages 20–21:

I must run over & see you some day. Why not you & Mʳˢ Darwin run over here, when you have finished your Book—you can study my little Apes & Apesses—Kindest regards to Mʳˢ Darwin & thanks for her note—Always yours Affecˡʸ / W D Fox

1870 November 18, William Darwin Fox, letter to Charles Darwin:

Suddenly then he rose, and thinking scorn of his fellows / Longed to be quit of them all, his Apess specially.

1884, The Spectator, volume 57, Poetry. In the Beginning., page 1173:

The second movement, the allegro ironico, is a variation on the well-known theme “Je m’en fous.” An ape-like mockery whinnies through it. Cocoanuts are shied at all the four corners of the world. Some of them display a mysterious tendency to fall near the spot where the apess sits weeping over the children.

1923, Paul Rosenfeld, Musical Chronicle (1917–1923), page 81:

In negroes and in anthropoid apes, the index finger is much shorter than the ring finger. In negresses and in anthropoid apesses, the index finger is often longer.

1939, James Bridie, One Way of Living, page 196:

The apess doesn’t look her age.

1986, Rikki Ducornet, Entering Fire, Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 142:

I dunno; do apesses screech more than male orangutans 'n' gorillae?

1998 April 20, Geoff Miller, “Re: The Tuneless Whistler -- a trial of patience!”, in alt.peeves (Usenet), message-ID <geoffmEroyF8.79L@netcom.com>:

[A]pesses do all the child-rearing.

2000, “The Life Cycle” (Part I), in Michèle Plott, Lauri Umansky, editors, Making Sense of Women’s Lives: An Introduction to Women’s Studies, Collegiate Press, →ISBN, Women Working: Germaine Greer, “Work”, page 201:

She then remarks that some people refer to art as the “apess or ape of nature, because just as the apess greatly imitates the manners of humans, art greatly imitates the works of nature.”

2009, Stephen Perkinson, “Chapter Three: The Vocabulary of Likeness at the Late Fourteenth-Century French Court”, in The Likeness of the King: A Prehistory of Portraiture in Late Medieval France, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, Conclusion: “Counterfeiting” Nature, ca. 1400, page 186:


shock collar

A collar for a dog or other animal that delivers electrical stimulation of varying intensity and duration to the neck via radio control.


echimyine

Of or pertaining to the subfamily Echimyinae of the rodent family Echimyidae.


catophile

Nobody can love Dickens and Thackeray equally well. The catophile will inevitably choose Thackeray, and prefer Baudelaire to either. On a le sens de chat, ou on ne l'a pas.

1922 September, “The Race of Tom”, in The Atlantic Monthly, page 424:

Once someone becomes a confirmed catophile, he can rarely resist the pleasure of owning a cat again.

1969, Ann Currah, editor, The Cat Compendium, page 65:

Wycliffe, an incurable catophile, stooped to stroke the cat but Kemp stopped him.

1996, W. J. Burley, Wycliffe and the House of Fear, page 28:

(informal) One who is extremely fond of cats.


cowlet

—Chicago boasts of a citizen of fine discrimination and delicacy, who, riding in the suburbs with his best girl, passed a stable in the door of which stood a couple of calves. “See,” said the young lady, “those two cute little cowlets.” “Those are not cowlets, Araminta; they are bullets.”

1886, Hamilton Literary Magazine, Clippings, page 110:

A lurid lumination lights lithe Laura’s eyes, / (O, tender cowlet, kick the bucket o’er)— / A look of anger and of pained surprise, / A look that ne’er had lit those orbs before.

1888, The Blue and Gold, volume 15, The Light in Laura’s Eyes, page 172:

Separate all cowlets from the cows, as they drink all the milk. Cowlets should be earning their own living.

1913, Queensland Agricultural Journal, page 226:

After a short while a thin small cow was released from the gangway leading to the menagerie. Provided with a scarlet cape, Juanito strutted forward towards the scampering cowlet. […] So in vest and black clown’s pantaloons, he provoked the cowlet and played the heavy matador. With all the grand airs of a Bombita Chica or a Montes he advanced to the assault. The dutiful cowlet gave a low. The little cow almost laughed to see such sport.

1932, Wyndham Lewis, Snooty Baronet, Haskell House Publishers Ltd., published 1971, page 201:

Book Agent. Oh, so you are interested in farming? Isn’t that a coincidence? The Everyday Encyclopedia Of Useful Facts included a five-hundred-and-seventy-three-page volume on farm and country life. / Mr. Jordan. (Interested) It does! / Book Agent. It certainly does. I think I have some sample leaflets here. (Opens a briefcase and takes out a pamphlet with some colored pages in it) See! Here is a picture showing a group of contented little cowlets browsing by a babbling brook. / Mr. Jordan. (Puzzled) Cow'''lets? / Book Agent. Yes, little cows. Aren’t they dears? / Mr. Jordan. I thought you said they were cows. / Book Agent. (Laughs) Now, aren’t you the clever one, though?

1934, Boyce Loving, Swappers: A Comedy in Three Acts, page 25:

“I am not sure a compilation of odds and ends should be called a ‘book.’ Perhaps ‘booklet’ would be the better designation. My daughter, when quite young, once spoke of a heifer calf she saw grazing on the rim of the road as a ‘cowlet.’ In reality, the wayside animal was a ‘bullet.’ Though this book, or booklet, isn’t even calf-bound, the analogy should have been close enough to make me wary of jumping to a conclusion. However, it is too late now.

1937, Quarterly Bulletin: The Historical Society of Northwestern Ohio, page 17:

YES — imagine, if you can, that all human beings are cows and or bulls for just one day (I just can’t stand the thoughts of being a cow for more than one day). SO — lets^([sic]) take the cow and bull side of the question first. REMEMBER — you are a cow or bull. Mrs. Cow has been home all day busy getting the cotton seed meal and hulls ready for dinner, tending to the little cowlets and bullets and baking a bale of hay.

1959, C. B. Kitchens, X-syrps from the Trickem News Chronic, page 5:

What’s a meta for anyway, I say, if not to mix with chicken lips, cow intestines and pig ganglia, foisted on poor defenseless cowlets held captive in feed lots for a significant portion of their tiny, meaningless lives, destined for the compressed air gun, the hook, and the heavy hammer, and the human Bar-B-Q bun, rotisserie and intestinal villi.

2004, Michael A. Lewis, “Culture”, in Écritage, Arana Gulch Press, published 2010, →ISBN, Endangered Species: January 1, 2004, page 27:


gunbroke

Well hold his horse. He might not be gunbroke.

1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 42:

Most o' the horses are gunbroke an' they're less likely to spook than the cattle.

2009, Will Armstrong, Jordan Land, page 122:

They'll stand to be saddled and, long as nobody does anything ignorant, they're not likely to throw. Aren't any of them gunbroke, but we can get them that way.

2014, Aaron Gwyn, Wynne's War: A Novel, page 114:

(of a horse) Trained not to spook when a gun is fired nearby.


greenbroke

en-adj

greenbroke (comparative more greenbroke, superlative most greenbroke)

more greenbroke (comparative)
most greenbroke (superlative)

Just halfway decent greenbroke horses. Say six saddles. Double and stop and stand still to be saddled.

1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 103:

Maggie dashed away the tear tracks on her cheeks. “Thank you, Mr. Potts. I believe I' ll take you up on your offer as my colt is only greenbroke, and the only other horse I know how to ride is gone—pulling our cart .

1995, Katharine Kincaid, Ride the Wind, page 364:

This is readily seen in the greenbroke horse that has yet to build full confidence in its rider. I have frequently observed the enhanced performance of the greenbroke horse when it is allowed to train or exercise in the company of others, whether that horse is familiar with its company or not.

1998, Joy Roberts, The Joy of Horses, page 28:

We'll add a greenbroke pack animal and you can break him on the trail.

(of a horse or pack animal) Newly tamed; not fully domesticated for all forms of working.


tack room

“First you've got to sit up and go into the tackroom, because you are soaking wet. And shivering.” […] The tackroom was cold, so Sam turned on the kerosene heater and found a wool cooler and wrapped her in it.

2001, Jane Smiley, Horse Heaven, New York, NY: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 61:

A room used for storing horse tack and related accessories, usually situated near or in a stable.


wolfess

From Middle English wolfesse, wolvas, wolvesse; equivalent to wolf + -ess.

He’ll enjoy the game, and if he goes into it with his eyes wide open, he won’t be ensnared by any tricks the wolfess plays on him. Not your man. He’s yours!

1946, Elizabeth Woodward, Let’s Have a Party, page 19:

The hostess who invites only the gals whom she thinks she can outshine in looks and conversation, so that she’ll be queen of the ball, will swiftly win the reputation of having only female goons and creeps at her parties. Boys also duck the wolfess who manages to invite five men to every girl so that, although all of the frails enjoy a dizzy whirl, most of the men just stand around talking to one another. […] Keep your wolfess tactics away from a school dance or party, especially when they’re aimed at somebody else’s date.

1947, Betty Betz, The Betty Betz Party Book, pages 16, 55:

[…] the types of girls you’re more likely to come across in your dating life.” There was the gold digger, the wolfess, and the catty character, but worst of all was the bad sport: […]

2002, Lynn Peril, Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons, →ISBN, page 148:

The use of -ess(e) to form the nouns of female animals spread after the introduction of lioness and gave rise, by analogy, to the nonce-word dovess. But wolfess, the medieval term for a she-wolf, is now rarely used in Present Day English except to mean a woman that is sexually aggressive.

[2015, Elena Sasu, Nicolas Trapateau, “Inkhorn Terms: Some that Got Away. Middle English Words Ending in -ess(e)”, in Fabienne Toupin, Brian Lowrey, editors, Studies in Linguistic Variation and Change: From Old to Middle English, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, 5. The fate of words ending in -ess(e): 3. Lexical revival, page 75:


Manx longhorn

A primitive breed of sheep native to the Isle of Man, noted for having multiple sets of horns, and shaggy wool.


balenopterid

Any baleen whale of the family Balaenopteridae


carideer

The Nunivak Island game range in Alaska is the home of muskoxen, carideer (a cross between caribou and reindeer), and reindeer.

1943, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations, Interior Department Appropriation Bill for 1944: Hearings, volume 3, page 693:

The reindeer and carideer on Nunivak Island are superior animals in weight and size.

1963, L. J. Palmer, Charles H. Rouse, Muskoxen Investigations in Alaska 1930-35, page 13:

(rare) An animal that is a hybrid of caribou and reindeer.


swinehound

From swine + hound, a direct calque of German Schweinehund.


rock-wallaby

Any of the wallabies of the genus Petrogale.


Brazilian aardvark

en-noun

Brazilian aardvark (plural Brazilian aardvarks)

/bɹəˌzɪljən ˈɑɹdvɑɹk/

/bɹəˌzɪljən ˈɑːdvɑːk/

The name was picked up following its insertion into Wikipedia in July 2008 by Dylan Breves as a joke. The hoax was uncovered in 2014, but some use of the name has continued.

Specializing mostly in birds, pheasants and ducks, they also have a few donkeys, snakes, porcupines and a group of animals: Brazilian aardvarks, Mexican tejon, hog-nosed coons, pistoes and snookum bears, which are cousins of the racoon.

2010 April 20, Randy Burns, “Scape Ore Farms' menagerie becoming an attraction”, in The Item, volume 115, number 157, page A4:

If they receive government approval, the species they'll be working with would include the maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus); jaguar (Panthera onca); black lion tamarin (Leontopithecus chrysopygus); bush dog (Speothos venaticus); Brazilian aardvark, also known locally as coati (Nasua nasua); collared anteater (Tamandua tetradactyla); gray brocket deer (Mazama gouazoubira); and bison (Bison bison).

2012 November 14, John R. Platt, “Brazil Plans to Clone Its Endangered Species”, in Scientific American, quoted in print in Phillips, published 2020, →ISBN:

2013 February 20, "Brazilian aardvark on the loose in Marlow" (headline, when a coati escaped; article by James Nadal), in Bucks Free Press (Buckinghamshire, UK); quoted in print in Phillips (2020, →ISBN)

[…] A Brazilian aardvark, pictured enoying a snack in Tulum, Mexico.

2020, Tom Phillips, Truth: A Brief History of Total Bullsh*t, Harlequin, →ISBN:


dusky dolphin

Lagenorhynchus obscurus, a dolphin found in coastal waters in the Southern Hemisphere.


servical

The hybrid offspring of a male serval and a female caracal


viverral

A cat breed, the cross between a Bengal cat and an Asian fishing cat


swift fox

Vulpes velox, a species of fox found in the central United States.


crab-eater seal

crab-eater seal (plural crab-eater seals)

From the mistaken belief that they eat crabs.

Lobodon carcinophagus
Lobodon carcinophagus#Translingual

The seal Lobodon carcinophagus, which eats krill.


Negretti

Uncertain. Probably from Negretti, the name or title of the family which owned the strain.

If a man with large means intends to raise for wool merely, or principally, I leave it open to him to select Negrettes or Combwools, as both will pay with necessary care; and although I belong to the old merino school, I am last to deny the qualities of a Cotswold.

1871, C. C. Hutchinson, Resources and Development of Kansas: Fifteen Years Experience, Topeka, KS: C. C. Hutchinson, pages 131–132:

A sheep of a Merino strain of Spanish origin, known for having very fine wool.


Appie

(informal) A member of the Appalachian Mountain Club, an outdoor group in the United States.


add to the list

en-verb

add to the list (third-person singular simple present adds to the list, present participle adding to the list, simple past and past participle added to the list)

adds to the list (present singular third-person)
adding to the list (participle present)
added to the list (participle past)
added to the list (past)

Sabinus has been added to the list.

(transitive, slang, dated, horse racing) To geld (a horse).


German Sheprador

en-noun

German Sheprador (plural German Shepradors)

The Ryans had several dogs, including a German Sheprador who had to be separated from the others because of her aggressive nature.

2017, Jon Hochschartner, The Animals' Freedom Fighter, Jefferson: McFarland & Co., →ISBN, page 147:

A cross between a German Shepherd and a Labrador.


catess

I merely add that after a short acquaintance between the Monkey and the Lioness, a Cat and Catess made their appearance to the great surprise and no small scandal of the whole social circle.[…]Anubis, worshipped since under the name of Mercury, was transformed into a Dog; Diana, who according to a learned Orientalist, is the same as the Egyptian Isis, took the form of a handsome Cat, or rather Catess.

1852, Charles Hale, editor, To-day, a Boston Literary Journal, volume I, Boston: Redding and Co., pages 147, 165:

Besides the animals of the neighbourhood, for whom Madame Ahavzi kept open table on certain days, she kept of her own two cats and four catesses, which she took a great deal more care of than if they had been human beings.

1873, Stories from Over the Sea, Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, page 160:

No one could dream for a moment that any respectable and well brought up catess could be attracted by such a fearful storm of profanity and discord. We blush to write it, but duty is duty—cats swear! We know that they are peculiarly susceptible to perfumes and music, and it is quite opposite to their nature to believe that such discordant discords would be uttered by any cat, unless in extreme agony.

1882, The Australian Journal: A Weekly Record of Literature, Science, and Art, volume 18, page 148, column 1:

Now are the wild, weird songs of night / Borne to us through the open lattices, / And wake us up in sore affright— / Some are cats and some are catesses. / — St. Paul Herald.

1884, Life, volume 4, page 28, column 2:

‘Rather than marry a gentleman like that,’ the girl continued recklessly, ‘I will be an old maid, and pass my life with cats and catesses.’ / This was girl-phrasing in the style of Richardson’s ‘dogs and dogesses’; not that the girl here speaking had ever read a line of Richardson, but that she spoke the language which that novelist was so industrious in gathering from girls’ lips.

1899, Christabel R. Coleridge, Arthur Innes, editors, The Monthly Packet, page 161:

The programme of entertainment for Gideon’s Band at Spokane bore the following bright lines: / Dear Kittens, CATS and CATesses, from cities far and near, / A conCATenated welcome we extend to you while here.

1903, Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo, The Bulletin, “Cat-ode.”, page 77:

Mr. Kenneth Clarke: Oh, tish tish. That’s utterly pre-Pappa-You-Done-Yo-Sugar-Mama-Wrong-poserous. [general laughter] Oh, I see. Ka-boom tish. A joke. Very good, splap splap but seriously, wabbeda wabbeda look. All the political cats and catesses know me. I’m a moderate. I’m not from the hanging and flog bog ga-dogging wing of the party.

2011, Ian Martin, The Coalition Chronicles, Faber and Faber, →ISBN, pages 79–80:

There was a handsome ginger cat at the steering wheel wearing a magnificent white coat, a scarf and goggles, and next to him a pure grey catess in a frilly white dress and bonnet.

2017, Adam Browne, Imperium Lupi, Dayfly Publications:


camelestrian

In Khedive Avenue [Khartoum] […] is a statue by E. Onslow Ford, of General Gordon on an Indian camel. So far as I know this is the world’s only camelestrian statue.

1923, Frank George Carpenter, Cairo to Kisumu, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, page 171:


pithecanthropine

Belonging to the former hominid genus Pithecanthropus.


pithecanthropine

Any member of the former hominid genus Pithecanthropus.


castorimorph

Any rodent of the suborder Castorimorpha


chinchilloid

Any rodent of the superfamily Chinchilloidea


Charolais

A breed of cattle, raised primarily for beef, having a large build and a cream-coloured coat.


English setter

A medium-sized breed of dog, having a silky "feathered" coat in a variety of colours, such as black and white or orange and white, originally bred as a gun dog.


cattlehead

cattlehead (plural cattlehead or cattleheads)

cattlehead (plural)
cattleheads (plural)

From cattle + head. Interestingly, both are doublets from Proto-Indo-European *kauput- (“head”), through Latin caput (“head”) and from Old English hēafd-, hēafod (“head; top; source; chief”), itself from Proto-Germanic *haubudą (“head”), respectively.

inh

Even assuming that our 50-million Muslims eat up 50-million cattle-heads a year at the rate of one cattlehead per human head per year, we shall still have millions and millions of cattle living and multiplying with our food inside them.

1963, Mother India, volume 29, page 14, column 2:

The reasons for death were more or less similar to cattleheads. In the case of poultry, in all, 1312 died mainly due to Ranikhet. These deaths of livestock comprised 5, 9.6 and 19.5 percent respectively of the present stock of cattleheads, goat and poultry (Tables – 14 and 15).

1984, Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development, Effects of Flood (1984) in Bangladesh: Survey of Nine Villages in Comilla, page 16:

The mobile veterinary unit had been providing health facilities to the ailing cattlehead in the whole of Thar.

The Local Government Engineering Bureau (LGEB) has built 2 killas as shelter for cattlehead.

1992, Raana Haider, A. Atiq Rahman, Saleemul Huq, editors, Cyclone '91 Revisited: A Follow-up Study, Bangladesh Center for Advanced Studies, page 12:

As a result, most farming families now cannot keep more than a pair of cattlehead each, the bare minimum for operating a plough to till the land.

1995, Bara Parang: The Tale of the Developmental Refugees of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, →ISBN, page 65:

Whenever a cattlehead was killed by the tiger, the men sprayed these poisonous chemicals copiously on the carcass and even kept the semi-solid balls of this substance namely carbofuran, B.H.C. Gamma, Lindane, Lintaf and Hepta Chlore etc. inside the fleshy part of the animal.

1995, Rahul Shukla, Killing Grounds: The Saga of Encounters in Wild, Siddhi Books, page 114:

India is perhaps a rare country having one cattlehead per two persons.

2006, Society for Promotion of Wastelands Development, Collection of Foundation Day & Lovraj Kumar Memorial Lectures, “Cattlewealth and Fish”, page 244:

30 and 31 July 1991: Area Affected: Betul, Dewas, Indore and Ujjain; Casualties: 22 persons killed; 150 cattleheads perished; Damages: One house collapsed; Chandora dam damaged and Sapana dam breached.

2006, SC Bhatt, Gopal K. Bhargava, editors, Land and People of Indian States and Union Territories: Madhya Pradesh (volume 15), India: Kalpaz Publications, →ISBN, page 470:

(India) head of cattle; a neat, a beef, a single bovine


pholidote

(zoology) A member of the Pholidota; a pangolin.


chalk-eating weasel

en-noun

chalk-eating weasel (plural chalk-eating weasels)

(horse racing) A bettor who regularly wagers on the favorite.


Heaviside's dolphin

Heaviside's dolphin (plural Heaviside's dolphins)

Early in the 19th century, a specimen was caught off the Cape of Good Hope by a Captain Haviside of the British East India Company. Zoologist John Edward Gray then misidentified Haviside as the surgeon John Heaviside, who was known for his own biological collections at the time.

Cephalorhynchus heavisidii, a small dolphin endemic to the Benguela ecosystem along the southwest coast of Africa.


afalina

The largest and rarest of all three Black Sea dolphins species is the "Black Sea pig" or afalina (Tursiops tursio Fabr.). The external appearance of the afalina differs from that of the other two dolphins. The beak is significantly shorter than that of the common dolphin.

In 1993 it opened a Dolphinarium whereat presently live seven dolphins - afalinas from the Black Sea. They not only entertain spectators but also gladly communicate with children having disability - […]

A biotechnical complex had been developed for the dolphin therapy sessions that included Black Sea Afalina dolphins specially trained according to the researcher's methods.

2012, Cynthia K. Chandler, Animal Assisted Therapy in Counseling, Routledge, →ISBN, page 232:

Tursiops truncatus
Tursiops truncatus#Translingual

A Black Sea bottlenose dolphin; Tursiops truncatus.


Hoover hog

Herbert Hoover + hog, because impoverished people were reduced to (and Hoover himself may have suggested) eating such animals during the Great Depression which Hoover presided over the start of.

Sometimes living on rabbits and squirrels , they described their fare as Hoover hogs. The President's rigid stand on the relief issue widened the gap between the Old Guard and the insurgents in the Republican party, and his differences with ...

1971, Richard Brandon Morris, William Greenleaf, Robert H. Ferrell, America: a History of the People:

[It] rises . . . a jackrabbit. A Hoover hog, long-eared, light in the front legs, strong in the rear. The jack stretches his heels and takes the hill in a few bounds. When last seen, he is heading east.

"Some folks are lonesome all their life and some are hungry . We ain't ever needed to eat a Hoover hog (an opossum) since we come to the Creek.” With humor , Bernie lamented that the only thing missing in his life was a new pickup truck.

1993, The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Journal of Florida Literature:

"It's a Hoover hog!" "Give it here," said Simeon Vear. Jimmy started to pick up the entire trap." Just the animal." Jimmy pushed his hand into the trap. "Don't," I said. "Let him," said Simeon Vear. "Got him," said Jimmy. He pulled the nervous rabbit […]

“[You don't have] to eat anything I fix again if you don't want to,” Jason McTavish spat. “I was surprised as everyone when Howard choked. That steak wasn't tougher than normal — for antelope.” “ If you'd stewed up a Hoover hog instead of that stringy[…]”

2007, Ken Hodgson, The Man Who Killed Shakespeare, ME: Five Star, →ISBN:

Aunt Cora, Mom's sister, always seemed to have rabbits or squirrels—Hoover hogs, she called them—or a greasy ole' barbecued raccoon for supper.

2010, Carroll Osburn, The Edge of the Wedge: Recollections of a Reluctant Prodigal, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 23:

“We'e gonna catch us a Hoover Hog, s'first thing,” said Carl. “A Hoover Hog? What's a Hoover Hog?” “You ain't never heard of a Hoover Hog? You'll see,” said Carl. They trudged along, keeping the conversation to a minimum, […]

2013, W. Jeff Bishop, A Cold Coming, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 215:

(US, especially Southern US) An animal which is eaten by poor people during hard times, especially an armadillo or jackrabbit, but also a possum or squirrel.


foul feeder

(obsolete) A horse that has bad eating habits.


ape-person

ape-person (plural ape-people or ape-persons)

ape-people (plural)
ape-persons (plural)

The openings of these huts and the branches of the trees were thronged with a dense mob of ape-people, whom from their size I took to be the females and infants of the tribe.

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

The earliest fossils that can be classified as ape-persons have been found in South Africa and they date back about 5.5 million years.

1982, James J. O’Donnell, Earthly Matters: A Study of Our Planet, New York, N.Y.: Julian Messner, →ISBN, page 171:

In England, Grafton Elliot Smith, who had been involved in the Piltdown affair, convinced The Illustrated London News to publish an artist’s rendering of Nebraska Man. The picture, which appeared in a two-page spread and received wide distribution, showed two brutish, naked ape-persons, the male with a club, the female gathering roots. All this from one tooth.

1999, James Perloff, “An Ape-man for All Seasons”, in Tornado in a Junkyard: The Relentless Myth of Darwinism, Arlington, Mass.: Refuge Books, →ISBN, page 82:

It remains a great mystery as to how these slow locomoting ape-persons survived in relatively open terrestrial environments without the aid of great speed, large canines, large body size, stone tool technology, or other physical adaptations that most mammals possess.

2000, Geoffrey Grant Pope, The Biological Bases of Human Behavior, Allyn and Bacon, →ISBN, page 101:

The anthropocentrist who values rationality, and sees it as the essence of being a person, would regard Taylor as having wiped out morally significant beings, since both mutants and ape-persons are clearly rational. Hence the act is a great wrong.

2013, Norva Y.S. Lo, Andrew Brennan, “The Last Man”, in John Huss, editor, Planet of the Apes and Philosophy: Great Apes Think Alike (Popular Culture and Philosophy; 74), Chicago, Ill.: Open Court Publishing Company, →ISBN, part IX (Planet), page 275:

A non-human australopithecine; an ape-like precursor to modern humans.


apegirl

"But a little ape-girl said: "Sing not this way; sing as you sung before.".

"Oh, it's the same old story. Mad scientist meets ape girl; ape girl throws mad scientist into volcano; werewolf bites ape girl; elephant boy marries daughter of vampire!".

1954, Collier's: Incorporating Features of the American Magazine, New York:


sangai

From Meitei language words, "sa" (meaning "animal") and "ngai" (meaning "waiting").

A endemic member of a subspecies of brow-antlered deer (Eld's deer) naturally found only in Manipur in India.


form book

(British) An annual book produced showing the results for the year's horse races together with comments on each runner.


market horse

[N]othing is easier than to make sure […] that the horse selected, in the event of the public fancying him, shall be made a market horse, and be “milked” for the benefit of those interested: the losing of a race may at any time be ensured, and there are scores of “turf dairymen” who are reputed adepts in the use of the milking pail.

1892, James Glass Bertram, A Mirror of the Turf, page 271:

(horse racing, slang, obsolete) A horse kept in the betting-lists for the sole purpose of being betted against.


grasshopper mouse

grasshopper mouse (plural grasshopper mice)

Any of the genus Onychomys of rodents, found in North America.


capreol

Ixion[…]turn'd dancer, does nothing but cut capreols, fetch friskals, and leads lavaltoes

Run through the field with frisks and kicks, In various capreols and tricks, Some ease poor thing, alass, to find;

1670, Virgil, Scarronides; Or Virgile Travestie, page 73:

A little Wall lay sculking about this Territory of the Dead, which we suppos'd was plac'd there as a Bulwark to their Ashes, but it prov'd but a feeble Fence against the Intrusion of the Lambs, who made frequent Capreols into this adjacent Dormitory.

1743, John Torbuck, A collection of Welch travels, and memoirs of Wales, page 21:

Ye know the capers our friends cut, their transnatural leaps exceed the capreols at Sadler's, or those of Del Phobo, or the dance of Merlin's giants: fools!

1756, John Dove, An Essay on Inspiration, page 182:

Noblissimo's First Gentleman remarks 'Your Lordship rid to day beyond Perseus on his Pegasus' and Noblissimo, modestly deferring, 'No Monsieur, he went (if Poets speak truth) in higher Capreols than ever I shall make my Horse go'.

2016, Peter Edwards, Elspeth Graham, Authority, Authorship and Aristocratic Identity in Seventeenth-Century England, page 137:


dog doctor

A famous dog-doctor vvas ſent for, and undertook to cure the patient, provided he might carry him home to his ovvn houſe; […]

1771, [Tobias Smollett], “To Miss Lætitia Willis, at Gloucester”, in The Expedition of Humphry Clinker […], volume I, London: […] W. Johnston, […]; and B. Collins, […], →OCLC, page 119:

I shall now give a dialogue which was held, as nearly as I can recollect, between Mrs. Nollekens and Mrs. Norman, the wife of a celebrated Dog-doctor, who, at the time I was with Sherwin, lived in Fox-court, St. James's-street […].

1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson, published 1986, page 106:

“My dad’s a dog doctor.” “Not just dogs,” the girl corrected. “He’s also a cat doctor. And sometimes even horses and cows.”

2012, RaeAnne Thayne, A Cold Creek Noel, Harlequin, →ISBN:

“[…]They think it’s so cool that Auntie Janey’s a horse doctor.” Janey laughed. “A horse doctor, a cow doctor, a cat and dog doctor.[…]”

2022, SJ McCoy, The Cowgirl’s Unmistakable Love, Xenion, Inc., →ISBN:

(chiefly historical, now rare) A veterinarian who specialises in dogs.


rough rider

because you are full of old festered wounds, you must have corrosive salves, for that is best for you, and the speediest way to recover your health: and forasmuch as you be rough horses, you must have a rough rider, and hard knobby timber must have hard wedges, and hard strokes with a beetle ["mallet"].

a. 1607, Arthur Dent, A Sermon of Repentaunce. A verie godly and profitable sermon, preached at Lee in Essex. B.L., Thomas Snodham for Roger Jackson, published 1615:

Our best rough-rider had mounted him, with a view of thoroughly "taking it out of him," and I never witnessed a better display of horsemanship.

1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 77:

A person whose specialty is the breaking in or training of wild horses.


chlamydophore

Any of the genus Chlamyphorus of armadillos.


Pomapoo

A small dog that is a cross between a Pomeranian and a poodle (typically a toy poodle).


Elliot's short-tailed shrew

Elliot's short-tailed shrew (plural Elliot's short-tailed shrews)

Named after Daniel Giraud Elliot, who first described the species in 1899.


Leisler's bat

Named to honour the naturalist Johann Philipp Achilles Leisler.

A lesser noctule (Nyctalus leisleri), an insectivorous vesper bat.


Berger Picard

/bɛəˌʒeɪ pɪˈkɑː/

/bɛɹˌʒeɪ pɪˈkɑɹ/

Unadapted borrowing from French berger picard (literally “Picard shepherd”).

unadapted borrowing

A French breed of medium-sized sheepdog.


poitrel

From Middle English: the form poitral is from central/Parisian French poitrel, "introduced into English apparently by Caxton"; the older form peitral (Middle English peitrel, paytrel, etc) was borrowed from Anglo-Norman peitral; both are from Old French poitral (modern French poitrail).

(historical) A piece of armor for a horse's chest; the breastplate of a horse's armour or harness.


colocolo opossum

en-noun

colocolo opossum (plural colocolo opossums)

monito del monte
monito del monte#English

Synonym of monito del monte (“small South American marsupial”)


catamountain

From Late Middle English catamountain, from Middle English cat of the mountain (“leopard, panther”).

inh

(leopard, panther):

Goe, charge my Goblins that they grinde their ioynts / With dry Convultions, ſhorten vp their ſinewes / With aged Cramps, & more pinch-ſpotted make them, / Than Pard, or Cat o' Mountaine.

1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 16, column 1:

Panthera pardus
Panthera pardus#Translingual

Leopardus pardalis
Leopardus pardalis#Translingual

(also attributively) A leopard, a panther (Panthera pardus); also, an ocelot (Leopardus pardalis).

(by extension) A man living in the mountains.


cat o' mountain

en-noun

cat o' mountain (plural cat o' mountains)


Suphalak

A shorthaired breed of cat originating in Thailand, having solid reddish-brown fur.


Azara's night monkey

Azara's night monkey (plural Azara's night monkeys)

Named after Spanish naturalist Félix de Azara.

Aotus azarae, a night monkey of South America.


scapteromyine

Any rat of the former tribe Scapteromyini (now Akodontini)


simiophagic

“Deforestation has resulted in the migration of macaques to the forest fringes, alongside with the simiophagic mosquito vectors.”

2021 January 25, Meizhi Irene Li, Diyar Mailepessov, Indra Vythilingam, Vernon Lee, Patrick Lam, Lee Ching Ng, Cheong Huat Tan, “Prevalence of simian malaria parasites in macaques of Singapore”, in Neglected Tropical Diseases, →DOI:


tacuacine

(archaic) An opossum native to Central America, possibly Didelphis marsupialis.


saddleback seal

saddleback seal (plural saddleback seals)

From saddle + back + seal. From having a harp-like-shaped part of its back outlined in black, that looks like a location to place a saddle.

Pagophilus groenlandicus
Pagophilus groenlandicus#Translingual

Synonym of harp seal (“Pagophilus groenlandicus, a marine mammal”)


flying cat

A colugo or flying lemur in the family Cynocephalidae


Sunda flying lemur

Sunda flying lemur (plural Sunda flying lemurs)

A flying lemur, Galeopterus variegatus, native to Malaysia and much of the Malay Archipelago south of the Philippines


Malaysian flying lemur

Malaysian flying lemur (plural Malaysian flying lemurs)

A Sunda flying lemur (Galeopterus variegata)


woolly lemur

Any member of nine species of strepsirrhine primates in the genus Avahi.


even-toed ungulate

even-toed ungulate (plural even-toed ungulates)

From even-toed (as a translation of the taxonomic name, translingual Artiodactyla, from Ancient Greek ἄρτιος (ártios, “even in number”) + δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “toe”)) + ungulate.

der

(zoology) Any mammal in the order Artiodactyla, including camels, pigs and ruminants such as deer, cattle, goats, sheep and antelopes; as well as, in recent years, cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises).


odd-toed ungulate

en-noun

odd-toed ungulate (plural odd-toed ungulates)

From odd-toed (as a translation of the taxonomic name, translingual Perissodactyla, from Ancient Greek περισσός (perissós, “odd in number”) + δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “toe”)) + ungulate.

der

(zoology) Any mammal in the order Perissodactyla, including horses and other equids, rhinoceroses, and tapirs.


syagush

Corruption of Iranian Persian سیاهگوش (siyâh-guš, literally “black-ear”)

bor

1774?, Oliver Goldsmith, A History of the Earth and Animated Nature
The jackall, the syagush, the wolf, and the dog, are of this kind; they pursue with patience rather than swiftness; their prey flies at first, and leaves them for miles behind; but they keep on with a constant steady pace […]


mutton busting

From mutton (“sheep”) + busting (“turning an animal into a beast of burden”), modeled on the phrase bronco busting.

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See all these sheep over there? All those kids are gonna be racing. […] What's this called again? Mutton busting. Mutton busting?

[2011, Wes Cunningham, Brandon Dickerson, Thomas Ward, directed by Brandon Dickerson, Sironia (motion picture):

What is mutton busting? […] Apparently, in certain parts of the country it's perfectly acceptable to take your 2- to 6-year-old child, strap a helmet on their tiny, fragile, still-growing head and throw them on the back of a frantic sheep in front of a cheering audience. It's a very, very real thing at junior rodeos, […]

But mutton busting quickly caught on and is now a staple at rodeos and fairs around the country, and even overseas, despite occasional opposition from animal rights groups.

2020 February 1, John MacCormack, “Mutton busting a popular rodeo event for kids in San Antonio and nationwide”, in My San Antonio:

I feel like having all of the livestock exhibits and shows under one roof has been fun and educational for our fair families as well as the public. […] Our truck and tractor pull were well attended, and we had some great reviews on that. [T]he mutton busting area was packed!

2020 May 14, Victoria Smithey, “History of Laramie County Fair Part 1”, in Pine Bluffs Post:

A form of entertainment, akin to bull riding, where young children compete to hold onto the back of sheep for as long as possible.


house dog

The house-dog, with the vacant greyhound, lies, / Out-stretch'd, and sleepy.

a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Summer”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:

A dog used to protect a house, a watchdog; (later also) a dog kept as a pet.


omomyine

Any extinct primate of the clade †Omomyinae


Fuegian dog

Lycalopex culpaeus
Lycalopex culpaeus#Translingual

An extinct domesticated canid (not a true dog), similar to the culpeo, of species †Lycalopex culpaeus.


kidang

Borrowed from Javanese ꦏꦶꦢꦁ (kidang), from Old Javanese [Term?].


elephantess

I wish I could dash off a sketch of her stupendous majesty the great elephantess, with the clumsy little prince royal, the calf elephant, as they appeared when enjoying themselves in their bath; and of his royal highness the great camelopard, as he stood stretching his interminable neck over the railing, impertinently watching them in their recreation.

1854, Grace Greenwood [pseudonym; Sara Jane Lippincott], chapter III, in Haps and Mishaps of a Tour in Europe, Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, page 54:

It was now time to bring new actors upon the stage, that the proverbial influence of the female sex might be tested upon these wild and untamed leviathans. Among the elephantesses—pardon the word—employed on this occasion was one named Siribeddi, which had earned a reputation for her skill as a decoy, and now did her best to justify that reputation.

1873, W[illiam] H[enry] Davenport Adams, “The Elephant: His History and Habits”, in The Forest, the Jungle, and the Prairie; or, Scenes with the Trapper and the Hunter in Many Lands, London: T Nelson and Sons, […], page 360:

Now, it chanced that there dwelt in the same Forest a young Elephantess, who perceived that the Kitten was copping the cash, and had all the other Female Animals so Faded they looked like a Shirt Waist fresh from a Chinese Laundry.[…]Being a thoughtful Creature, however, the Elephantess did not knock her rival’s game, but began to study the Kitten’s system, to see if there was not a soft spot where she could butt into the money.

1902, Dorothy Dix [pen name; Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer], “The Elephantess who Tried to be Cute”, in Fables of the Elite, New York, N.Y.: R. F. Fenno & Company, […], pages 155–156:

Elephantesses should be employed to decoy stupid and amorous wild elephants into the trap (1—4).[…]Similarly, a fifty thousand libations, consisting of sesamum seeds and clarified cow-butter, would stamp out an epidemic affecting the bipeds only, whereas the ceremony should be repeated at the breaking out of a pestilential disease, or on the occasion of elephantess developing a pair of tusks, and portending evil to the state. The evil consequences of an elephantess, exuding serum from her temple, would be warded off by a Homa of ten thousand libations, whereas an epidemic of miscarriages of the womb, or of deaths of new-born infants in a community, would prove amenable to a similar Homa, consisting of as many libations (10—13).

1904, Manmatha Nath Dutt, transl., A Prose English Translation of Agni Puranam, volume II, Calcutta: […] H. C. Das, Elysium Press, […], pages 1057 and 1195–1196:

The elephantess of Udena runs in the sand like lightning.[…]Elephants wander in the forest with elephantesses.

1942, D. G. Koparkar, English Guide to C. V. Joshi’s Manual of Pāli, Oriental Book Agency, pages 4 and 6:

“Behold here the damsels of Vidyádharas, are waiting for you with fans and wreaths of flowers in their hands; and they have been hailing and inviting you to them, as the young elephantess, entices the big elephant towards her.”

1978, The Yoga-Vásishtha-Mahárámáyana of Válmiki, Bharatiya Publishing House, page 991:

Let us decorate an elephantess, give a garland in its trunk and, take her in the garden.[…]Sajjan was made to seat on the same elephantess.

1983, Upadhyay Shri Pushkar Muni, edited by Shree Devendra Muni, Punyano Prabhav, Ahmedabad: Shree Laxmi Pustak Bhandar, pages 145–146:

Rather, from Bridgman’s account of her early career Stein emerges as an elephantess in the china shop of literature: “Expending prodigious amounts of energy, Stein thrashed erratically toward innovation.”

1986, Janice L. Doane, Silence and Narrative: The Early Novels of Gertrude Stein, Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page xvii:


apron skirt

1984, Paul Hulton, America 1585: The Complete Drawings of John White, The University of North Carolina Press and British Museum Publications, description of Plate 33, p. 178,

The woman, described […] as a chief’s wife or chief lady of Pomeiooc, wears an apron-skirt of fringed skin, edged at the top and bottom with a single row of white beads.

(historical) An item of clothing worn by women in some North American indigenous communities, consisting of an apron-like flap hanging over the front of the thighs, sometimes with an additional flap hanging in the back.


dead amiss

At the mention of the increased amount of odds, the snob took the youngster aside, and said to him, "Look now, by the book, we have the old man done brown; my horse is dead amiss, your cousin's horse you can beat easy, […]

1840, John William Carleton, The Sporting Review, page 286:

Sunshine ran gamely, but was clearly out of condition; and Gamos, who was dead amiss at Bath, having got round, beat her from the superiority of her training, […]

1870, Tresham Gilbey, Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, volume 18, page 320:

(horse racing) Of a horse: too ill to compete.


Miss Waldron's red colobus

en-noun

Miss Waldron's red colobus (plural Miss Waldron's red colobuses)

Discovered in December 1933 by Willoughby P. Lowe, who named it after a fellow museum employee, Miss Fanny Waldron, a colleague on the expedition.

Piliocolobus waldronae, a red colobus native to West Africa.


gorilless

The last statement suggests to me the question, did she walk upon her hind legs only, or upon all four? That is, did she walk erect like a man and a brother,—I should say a gorilless and a sister,—or like an attached and humble individual of the canine or feline quadruped species?[…]Was not Seraphine a wonderful young person,—I mean gorilless?

1861 September 30, “Paterfamilias”, “Gentle Gorilla–Wither Away. To the Editor of Fun.”, in Fun, published 12 October 1861, page 39, columns 1–2:

“An’ now I hear you’re sendin’ our flagship Pastores out at four o’clock this afternoon with another cock-eyed cross between a giraffe an’ a Gila monster— / “By my soul, never!” yells th’ G.P.A., jumpin’ up like a bumb has gone off under him. “If the Pastores sails with that red-skirted gorilless aboard, it’ll be over my dead body!”

1923 December, Volney G. Mathison, “The Woman-Handler”, in Radio, volume V, number 12, pages 68 and 70, column 3:

I know it’s horribly sexist but, it has to be said, so are gorillas. / Then there’s the lonely gorilless whose mate has died just before breeding time, leaving both her and her devoted keeper desolate with grief.

1985, Maureen Lipman, “Lipmanish Allthouthts^([sic])”, in How Was It for You?, Clio Press, published 1989, section “A Joking Aside”, page 186:

On another day, at the Program Corporation of America, a White Plains-based company that serves as lecture managers and booking agencies for celebrities, the gorilla was invited to stay for lunch. “You’re a “gorilless,” Joan Steinhaus, executive vice president, said as Miss Corsetti removed the head of her costume. “Would you like a banana?”

1985 March 31, Lynne Ames, “About Westchester; Listening Device”, in The New York Times, page 2:

She wanted a job with Phyllis the Gorilless.

2016, CJ Verburg, “Lovely Rita”, in Zapped: An Edgar Rowdey Cape Cod Mystery, Boom-Books, →ISBN:


call a cab

en-verb

call a cab (third-person singular simple present calls a cab, present participle calling a cab, simple past and past participle called a cab)

calls a cab (present singular third-person)
calling a cab (participle present)
called a cab (participle past)
called a cab (past)

(raise arm while riding): From the similarity to the raised-arm gesture used to summon a taxi.

An habitually raised arm, termed 'calling a cab', was the trademark of amateurism.

1994, Dick Francis, Wild Horses, page 137:

Drawings of races sixty years ago show the riders trying to avoid catching their horses in the mouth by stretching forward with one arm and lifting the other hand backwards off the reins into the position known as 'calling a cab'.
Although it is no longer the normal and recognized thing to do, 'calling a cab' is still occasionally seen when a jockey finds himself in difficulties over a fence.

2002, Frank R. Scatoni, Finished Lines, page 181:

(horse racing) To raise one's arm to maintain balance while riding.


Captain Armstrong

A pun on the name Armstrong, referring to the use of a strong arm.

"Poor child," he said to himself, all his angry feelings changing, "she seems to have set her heart so upon winning, it would be sad if she were disappointed. No one has much on it: shall I try Captain Armstrong for once? It would make her very happy. Bar accidents, I must win. They don't know that the chestnut has not extended himself yet."

1860, George Alfred Lawrence, Guy Livingstone, page 70:

He had practised “Captain Armstrong” so palpably as to be banished from the Turf.

1886, Baily's Magazine of Sports & Pastimes, volume 46, page 413:

We have not an iota of belief in this or any other "Captain Armstrong" insinuation against high-class jockeys, who have far too comfortable incomes, and too much proper pride, to place their characters in any man's power, […]

(horse racing, archaic, slang) A form of cheating in which the jockey deliberately pulls his horse back so that it does not win.


mouselet

Pretty soon she would have a litter of five or six tiny, pink, unfurred mouselets to put into it.

1963, Friends Journal, volume 9, page 105:


northern brushtail possum

en-noun

northern brushtail possum (plural northern brushtail possums)

A species of possum, Trichosurus arnhemensis, endemic to northern Australia; sometimes considered a subspecies of the brushtail possum, Trichosurus vulpecula.


neotomid

Any muroid rodent of the subfamily Neotominae


bearess

As it is the only spirit I possess I heed his advice and bring it back to the hotel to find the entire force standing at attention, ready to receive me. I pass on to my room with a procession of bearers and bearesses strung out behind me like the tail of a kite, anything from a tea-tray to the sugar tongs being sufficient excuse for joining the parade.

1912, Frances Little, The Lady and Sada San: A Sequel to The Lady of the Decoration, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., pages 60–61:

Ring bearer and bearess were Larry and Mary Lynn Ayers, Springfield, Va., nephew and niece of the bridegroom.

1968 April 3, “Greencastle Girl Marries In Arlington, Virginia”, in The Morning Herald, volume XCIV, number 80, Hagerstown, Md.:

Some aggressively degenerate Chinese emperors and noblemen used to make a spectacle of their comely female sedan-chair bearers. (Perhaps properly: bearesses or she-bears or bearpersons.)

1975 December 18, “Tourists main client of China’s dwindling rickshaws”, in The Advocate, Newark, Oh., page 33, column 5:

Ring bearess and flower girl were Emily and Elizabeth Goldeman.

1995 September 19, “Musgrave — Johnson”, in The Ithaca Journal, Ithaca, N.Y., page 6A, column 3:

On the other hand, we must say that what distinguishes this “concreteness” is the essential, originary distinction between the “physical” person (the bearer, or bearess of the philosophical discourse) and his or her truly being a philosopher.

2007, Romano Màdera, Vero Luigi Tarca, “Philosophical Practices as the Valorization and Care for “Beautiful People””, in Philosophy as Life Path: An Introduction to Philosophical Practices, Milan: IPOC di Pietro Condemi, translation of La filosofia come stile di vita: Introduzione alle pratiche filosofiche, →ISBN, pages 186–187:

Natalie Ambrusko of Tonawanda, NY was a ring bearess; Katherine Ambrusko of Pittsburgh, PA and Audrey Kefor of Glastonbury, CT were flower girls, all three are cousins of the bride

2007 December 2, “Hill - Ackers”, in Poughkeepsie Journal, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., page 3I, column 2:

The bridesmaids gestured that it was time for the rings and Elizabeth, who was apparently the ring bearess, rose to the occasion.

2014, Sam Harris, “Promises”, in Ham: Slices of a Life, Gallery Books, →ISBN, page 17:


paucident planigale

paucident planigale (plural paucident planigales)

From paucident (nonce borrowing from Latin paucidens (“having few teeth”), apparently not otherwise used) + planigale (“carnivorous marsupial of genus Planigale”). Compare Translingual Paucidentomys.

The dasyurids examined were the Paucident Planigale, Planigale gilesi, and the Kowari,[…].

1982, Michael Archer, Carnivorous Marsupials, Volume 1, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, page 255:

The Paucident Planigale is a robust marsupial. Its head and body are 6-8 cm long. It has only two premolar teeth in each upper and lower jaw, instead of three as the other four planigales have. The Paucident Planigale has soft, dense, colourful fur.

1983, Keith Davey, “Our Arid Environment: Animals of Australia's Desert Regions”, in Reed, page 92:

However, for small cryptic species such as the southern ningaui Ningaui yvonneae, narrow-nosed planigale Planigale tenuirostris and paucident planigale P. gilesi, range extensions are probably more apparent than real[…].

1994, Daniel Lunney, Future of the Fauna of Western New South Wales, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, page 86:

Planigale gilesi, a very small species of carnivorous marsupial endemic to desert areas of southern and eastern Australia.


Dragon Man

From being a hominid discovered in the Chinese province of Heilongjiang (“黑龍江”). From Chinese 黑龍江／黑龙江 (Hēilóngjiāng, literally “Black Dragon River”).

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Today, the skull is finally coming out of hiding, and it has a new name: Dragon Man, the newest member of the human family, who lived more than 146,000 years ago.

2021 June 25, Ann Gibson, “Stunning ‘Dragon Man’ skull may be an elusive Denisovan—or a new species of human”, in Science:

Yet dragon man is stirring debate, with some experts suggesting it could be a Denisovan, a mysterious Neanderthal sister group represented by scant fossils.

2021 November, Maya Wei-Haas, “Who was ‘Dragon Man’?”, in National Geographic, volume 240, number 5, page 22:

The Harbin specimen, nicknamed ‘Dragon Man’, is a very large cranium that appears facially closer to H. sapiens, but has an elongated braincase more similar to H. heidelbergensis

2022, Luíseach Nic Eoin, “New Asian hominin”, in Nature Ecology & Evolution, volume 6, number 18, →DOI, page 18:

Some researchers assigned the skull a new species name, Homo longi (“dragon man”) and argued that it is a sister species of H. sapiens (Ji et al., 2021)

2023, John H. Langdon, “Late Pleistocene Homo and the Emergence of Modern Humans”, in Human Evolution: Bones, Cultures, and Genes, Springer, Cham, →ISBN:


hyena dog

African wild dog
African wild dog#English


half-pass

(equestrianism) In dressage, a movement in which the horse moves forward and sideways at the same time


blow up the tote

en-verb

blow up the tote (third-person singular simple present blows up the tote, present participle blowing up the tote, simple past blew up the tote, past participle blown up the tote)

blows up the tote (present singular third-person)
blowing up the tote (participle present)
blew up the tote (past)
blown up the tote (participle past)

From the whimsical notion that the payout on a particularly high-priced longshot might be a larger number than the tote board is capable of computing and/or displaying.

Giacomo blew up the tote by winning the 2005 Kentucky Derby at odds of 50-1.

(horse racing, of a horse) To win a race as a long shot.


gate-to-wire

Authentic led the 2020 Breeders’ Cup Classic at every point of call en route to a gate-to-wire victory.

(US, horse racing) From start to finish. (Usually used to describe a horse that wins a race by leading throughout.)


pavement special

en-noun

pavement special (plural pavement specials)

From pavement + special (“thing which is distinctive or out of the ordinary”, noun), referring to the fact that stray dogs are often found roaming around on pavements.

compound

[E]very mangy, threadbare, snarling cur pariah pavement-special dog that ever got kicked in the ribs appears from the shadows of twisted dreams and with flashing fangs bears down on the injured party to rip her apart in a streak of blood and matted fur.

1996 (date written), Brett Bailey, “Notes from the Wilderness”, in The Plays of Miracle & Wonder: Bewitching Visions and Primal High-jinx from the South African Stage, Cape Town, South Africa: Double Storey Books, Juta, published 2003, →ISBN, page 36:

As I move around the world studying working dogs, there always seems to be another population of dogs hanging around. They are part of the background. When I ask about these dogs, they are described to me as the local mutts, mongrels, pavement specials, crossbreeds.

2001, Raymond Coppinger, Lorna Coppinger, “Village Dogs”, in Dogs: A Startling New Understanding of Canine Origin, Behavior, and Evolution, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, →ISBN, page 69:

Two smaller pavement specials ranged alongside, and made up for size by their barking.

2011, Eckart Schumann, chapter 3, in Patterns of Change, New York, N.Y.: Eloquent Books, AEG Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 29:

And then there was Gypsy, a little black rescue dog we picked up from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Gypsy was a wonderful mutt, a ‘pavement special’ as we say, who had a heart as big as Africa.

2012 July, Lawrence Anthony, with Graham Spence, chapter 3, in The Last Rhinos: The Powerful Story of One Man’s Battle to Save a Species, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Dunne Books, →ISBN, pages 22–23:

In Park Rynie, down the south coast in Kwa Zulu Natal, where I had grown up, we only saw and heard of people keeping Alsatians, Rottweilers, Labradors, poodles, and the common pavement specials. My knowledge of dogs was actually pathetic, but the subject had never interested me.

2013 March 6, Resh Ramlakan, Fur Kids: Angels on Earth, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 11:

(South Africa) A dog (especially a stray dog) of miscellaneous ancestry; a mongrel, a mutt.


fairy possum

Leadbeater's possum
Leadbeater's possum#English


dichobunoid

(zoology) Any extinct mammal in the superfamily Dichobunoidae


protoceratine

Any fossil protoceratid of the subfamily Protoceratinae


typothere

The typothere herd in the open begins to drift towards a patch of trees by a dogleg in the riverbank to shelter.

2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 69:


hegetotheriine

Any extinct mammal of the subfamily †Hegetotherinae


red-bellied titi

en-noun

red-bellied titi (plural red-bellied titis)

Plecturocebus moloch, a New World monkey endemic to Brazil.


raceday

(horse racing) A day on which a race is held


draw bridle

en-verb

draw bridle (third-person singular simple present draws bridle, present participle drawing bridle, simple past drew bridle, past participle drawn bridle)

draws bridle (present singular third-person)
drawing bridle (participle present)
drew bridle (past)
drawn bridle (participle past)

When he was within a small distance of this inn, which to him seemed a castle, he drew bridle, and stopt Rozinante […].

1755, Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Tobias Smollett, Don Quixote, Volume 1, I.2:

Surrey […] rode, without drawing bridle, to Berwick.

1828, Patrick Fraser Tytler, History of Scotland:

(equestrianism) To pull on the reins (of a horse etc.) in order to slow it down or bring it to a stop; hence, to stop, draw up.


Karst Shepherd

(cynology) A breed of dog of the livestock guardian type, originating in Slovenia.


Bolonka

(cynology) A colored variation of the all-white Bolognese, a recently developed dog breed from Russia.


Finnish Spitz

(zoology) A breed of dog originating in Finland.


East European Shepherd

en-noun

East European Shepherd (plural East European Shepherds)

(cynology) A Russian and Ukrainian breed of shepherd dog, selectively bred from the German Shepherd to create a larger dog.


Alaskan Klee Kai

Alaskan Klee Kai (plural Alaskan Klee Kais)

From Alaskan + Athabaskan words meaning “little dog”.

A spitz-type breed of dog, developed in the late 20th century as a companion-sized dog resembling the larger Alaskan Husky and Siberian Husky.


Interior Alaskan wolf

Interior Alaskan wolf (plural Interior Alaskan wolves)

Northwest Territories
Northwest Territories

(zoology) A subspecies of gray wolf native to parts of British Columbia, the Northwest Territories, interior Alaska and Yukon.


Florida black wolf

Florida black wolf (plural Florida black wolves)

(zoology) An extinct subspecies of Canis lupus that was endemic to Florida.


Taimyr wolf

(zoology) An ancient wolf that inhabited the Taimyr Peninsula of northern Siberia.


stenodermatine

Any bat of the subfamily Stenodermatinae


Italian wolf

(zoology) A subspecies of gray wolf native to the Italian Peninsula.


Alaskan tundra wolf

Alaskan tundra wolf (plural Alaskan tundra wolves)

(zoology) A North American subspecies of gray wolf native to the barren grounds of the Arctic coastal tundra region.


Great Plains wolf

Great Plains wolf (plural Great Plains wolves)

(zoology) An extinct subspecies of gray wolf that once extended throughout the Great Plains.


red point

(felinology) A colourpoint cat with red markings.


Black Norwegian Elkhound

Black Norwegian Elkhound (plural Black Norwegian Elkhounds)

(zoology) A small spitz breed classified as a hunting dog.


Mackenzie River husky

Mackenzie River husky (plural Mackenzie River huskies)

Any of several overlapping local populations of Arctic and subarctic sled-dogs, none of which constitute a breed.


Taiwan Dog

(zoology) A breed of small or medium dog indigenous to Taiwan.


Danish Spitz

(zoology) A dog breed, originating from Denmark, once known as the nanny dog.


Salish Wool Dog

Salish Wool Dog (plural Salish Wool Dogs)

(zoology) An extinct breed of white, long-haired, Spitz-type dog that was developed and bred by the Coast Salish, whose fur was used like wool.


pye-dog

From Hindi पाहि (pāhi, “migrant farmer, passer-through”), from Sanskrit पार्श्व (pārśva, “side, vicinity”).

der

(zoology) Synonym of stray dog, particularly in Indian contexts.

Indian pariah dog
Indian pariah dog#English

(zoology) Synonym of Indian pariah dog, a breed indigenous to India.


cat organ

A hypothetical musical instrument consisting of a line of cats fixed in place with their tails stretched out underneath a keyboard so that they cry out when keys are pressed.


synthetocerine

Males of the group of Miocene North American deer-like animals, the synthetocerines, have a single, very long horn, balanced circus-like almost at the tip of their snouts, split at the tip like a barbecue fork.

2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 46:

An extinct protoceratid of the late Miocene comprising the genus Synthetoceras.


moosette

How wondrous it must be to travel and migrate in a whole herd of mooses and moosettes and go anywhere besides up and down and round and round like a painted pony on a carousel.

2013, Bernie L. Calaway, 101 Fun Fables, page 43:


giraffess

Fable of the Giraffess / Once there was a Beautiful Giraffess, who was Presented at Court. Her Costume was the Limit, and King Lion was much struck by her Beauty and Charm. “I am Delighted to see you,” he said to the Beautiful Giraffess, “but where is your Husband? Was he not also Commanded to Come?” “Yes, Your Majesty,” answered the Beautiful Giraffess, “but he had to Pay so Much Money for my Low-Necked Dress that he could not afford to Buy a Collar for Himself.”

1902 May 4, The Pittsburg Press, volume 19, number 123, Pittsburg, Pa.:

The tongue of a giraffe is two feet long according to a late authority. He probably didn’t dare mention the length of a giraffess’ tongue.

1907 February 14, The Brewton Standard, volume XX, number 36, Brewton, Ala.:

The “giraffesses” gaily sport / Their yellow polka dots / While all the lady zebras shine / In stripes, instead of spots.

1913, J[ohn] H. Cradlebaugh, Nyeena Kloshe Illahee (Songs of the Good Country), Portland, Or.: Press of F. W. Baltes and Company, page 61:

Now we’re not the type to quarrel with facts and it may be that baby giraffes sometimes are six feet tall at birth (if so, if we were a giraffess, we certainly would be a bachelor girl giraffess, we think.)

1954 December 13, Ollie M. James, “Just The Facts, Sir and Ma'am”, in The Cincinnati Enquirer, 114th year, number 248, Cincinnati, Ohio, page 4:

New Giraffess Named Sudan / It’s a girl, Honolulu Zoo Director Paul Breese announced yesterday after the sex of the baby giraffe born to Twiga on Monday had been determined.

1962 March 22, The Honolulu Advertiser, 106th year, number 53,667, Honolulu, Haw., page B1:


stray dog

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

An ownerless dog, a roaming wild or half-wild dog.


hareling

I'm coming, I'm coming, the nice old stoat, who is so fond of tender harelings.

1886, Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen Baron Brabourne, Friends and Foes from Fairy Land, page 352:

In central Finland first-year children are greeted with "Hello, big-eyed, long eared harelings", using a dialect word for a young hare born in August, […]

1978, Leea Virtanen, Children's Lore, page 67:

The family's proliferating rabbit population was memorialized in The Hareling, a children's book done as a cottage project, with Ed producing the text - about a newborn rabbit found in the fields — to accompany Helene's drawings.

2002, Tom Clark, Edward Dorn: A World of Difference, page 327:

The hare, the hare-kin,
Old Big-bum, Old Bouchart,
The hare-ling, the frisky one, […]


dwarf chimpanzee

en-noun

dwarf chimpanzee (plural dwarf chimpanzees)

pygmy chimpanzee
pygmy chimpanzee#English


kultarr

Antechinomys laniger, a small insectivorous nocturnal marsupial inhabiting the arid interior of Australia.


painted bat

An Indomalayan bat of the species Kerivoula picta.


otter shrew

A semiaquatic riverine afrotherian mammal (taxonomic family Potamogalidae) indigenous to sub-Saharan Africa.


AKK

Alaskan Klee Kai
Alaskan Klee Kai#English


on the rail

(horse racing) Alternative form of on the rails


fat-tailed sheep

fat-tailed sheep (plural fat-tailed sheep)

A domestic sheep of a variety known for its distinctive large tail and hindquarters, found mainly in northern Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia.


muckna

(India) A male elephant whose tusks are absent or rudimentary.


Foreign Longhair

Foreign Longhair (plural Foreign Longhairs)


Indian badger

Mellivora capensis
Mellivora capensis#Translingual

Synonym of honey badger (Mellivora capensis)


Headless Horseman

A mythical figure who has appeared in folklore around the world since the Middle Ages, who is traditionally depicted as a man upon horseback who is missing his head.

ruiter zonder hoofd

chiefly associated with Washington Irving


Honeygirl

She tied the insulated care package to her pommel and waving goodbye to Natielle she kicked Honeygirl into a gallop. She had never been this excited about going on the mountain. Usually she strolled along, enjoying the scenery and ...

2006, Beverly Sheets Goodwin, Arizona Macgregor, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:

Honeygirl was nearly frothing; she was almost as panicked as Mojito in the next stall. Talking all the while, he had to slip into Honeygirl's stall to reach her. He ran his hand up her quivering shoulder.

2009, Allison Leigh, Valentine's Fortune, Silhouette, →ISBN, page 186:

Honeygirl came into my life when I was eleven. She was a Tennessee Walking Horse, yet almost a pony in size, and I wasn't at all sure I wanted her. Fancying myself quite a horsewoman, I had been planning to own a full-sized ...

2010, Marcy Clements Henrikson, Our Daughter Martha: A Family Struggles with Coming Out, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN, page 7:

An affectionate given name for a female horse.


Headless Horsewoman

No, but he's headless over heels for the Headless Horsewoman! What's the difference between ghosts and vampires? Ghosts can't see their reflections because they're invisible and dead, while vampires can't see their reflections because ...

2018, Julian Henson, Kira Henson, HALLOWEEN 2018, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 36:

The Headless Horsewoman got here By day , by night , I go headless, I go craving. Under the lunatic lights: writhing, or through the passage along the river "naked" I call for it , my own erosion . The neck mimics something but it ...

Many dress up as the Headless Horsewoman and her lover, the Apple Elf. Wait, Apple Elf? Where do humans come up with this stuff? Still, a small tent grabs my attention. In it, a group of humans put on a play about this unfortunate pair.

2020, Christina Bauer, Pixieland Diaries: Book 1 of the Pixieland Diaries, Monster House Books, →ISBN:

(rare) A female equivalent of the Headless Horseman mythical figure.


Headless Horsewoman

Headless Horsewoman (plural Headless Horsewomen)

(rare) A female Headless Horseman; a mythical woman (perhaps of several) upon horseback who is missing her head, inspired by the Headless Horseman mythical figure.


maneki-neko

maneki-neko (plural maneki-nekos or maneki-neko)

maneki-nekos (plural)
maneki-neko (plural)

From Japanese 招き猫 (maneki neko, literally “beckoning cat”).

bor

A common Japanese figurine which is often believed to bring good luck to the owner.


New Guinea singing dog

en-noun

New Guinea singing dog (plural New Guinea singing dogs)

New Guinea Highlands
New Guinea Highlands

(zoology) Canis lupus hallstromi, a dog of an ancient lineage found in the New Guinea Highlands on the island of New Guinea, having a distinctive melodious howl.


jock off

en-verb

jock off (third-person singular simple present jocks off, present participle jocking off, simple past and past participle jocked off)

jocks off (present singular third-person)
jocking off (participle present)
jocked off (participle past)
jocked off (past)

Dawn Run's owner, Charmian Hill, who had insisted on trainer Paddy Mullins 'jocking off' his son Tony and putting up Jonjo O'Neill to ride her in the Gold Cup, was an awkward cuss too.

2012, Robin Oakley, Britain and Ireland's Top 100 Racehorses of All Time:

(transitive, informal, horse racing) To replace (a jockey) with another.


homacodontid

clipping

translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Homacodontidae</i>

Any extinct mammal of the family Homacodontidae.


give paw

en-verb

give paw (third-person singular simple present gives paw, present participle giving paw, simple past gave paw, past participle given paw)

gives paw (present singular third-person)
giving paw (participle present)
gave paw (past)
given paw (participle past)

Special volitional movements impaired. Won't give paw because that performance result of individual education, requiring loop line.

1988, William James, Manuscript Lectures, →ISBN, page 41:

Even though both gave paw, only Willy received the treat. After this happened, Buck stopped giving paw almost immediately.

2013, Brian Schmisek, Resurrection of the Flesh or Resurrection of the Dead, →ISBN, page 107:

After a moment's hesitation Fluff gave paw. The children were relieved.

2020, Nancy Przybylowicz, Total Fluff, →ISBN, page 36:

Of dogs, to present one's paw for a handshake with a human.


Chongqing dog

(cynology) A dog of a particular breed developed for hunting in the mountains of East Sichuan, China.


babuina

From New Latin, feminine of babuinus, from French babouin.


rabbit-hearted

en-adj

rabbit-hearted (comparative more rabbit-hearted, superlative most rabbit-hearted)

more rabbit-hearted (comparative)
most rabbit-hearted (superlative)


reitbuck

Alternative form of reitbok (“reedbuck”)


Santa Paws

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No no not Santa Paws! Bean O'brien. Everyone deserves a second chance maybe he was just being a poophead cuz he need a hug Bessa Phaneuf. You a bad troll...!! Mattie Bissmeyer. He's a very norty Troll. But i don't like to see anyone cry ...

year unknown, Josephine Tuckfield, Saving Santa Paws, Lulu.com

It turned out that Snowy was upset because at Christmas all the animals are left out and he wants to be SANTA PAWS. Well, Ithought what a great idea this was and went back into the room and said to Snowy, “What a kind dog you are ...

2009, Buckham Derek, Santa's Christmas Story Book, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 24:

Duke happily trotted to the main stand Where Santa Paws sat, all dressed in red and looking very grand. The mall was filled with Christmas delight; Mistletoe, holly and Santa were a welcoming sight. Duke happily trotted to the main ...

2011, Blossom Albuquerque, Dashing Duke and His Dodgy Adventures, Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency, →ISBN, page 28:

"Santa Paws is always willing to hear Christmas wishes." He winkedat Eva as Savannah buried her head under Eva's arm. "Aww, don't be afraid, sweetie. He won't bite." "Unless you're a cookie." Adam struggled to get the Santa cookie he'd ...

2014, Meda White, Christmas Give: A Holiday Novella, Meda White, →ISBN:

Another True Story About Best Friends...and Siblings Too! Brittni Vega. plate of cookies and a glass of milk. I don't mean to ruin the . . . I am almost twelve in dog years. I stopped believing in Santa Paws a few months ago.

2015, Brittni Vega, Harlow & Indiana (and Reese): Another True Story About Best Friends...and Siblings Too!, Penguin, →ISBN:

Santa Paws knows Santa Claus, because he was his first and favourite pet. Santa Claus loved Santa Paws so much, that every Christmas, Santa Claus would take Santa Paws with him in his sleigh. Santa Paws would look at the beautiful night ...

2017, Hanna L. Farha, Santa Paws, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN:

When Belle opened her eyes , she saw Santa Paws. " I got your letter , Belle , " chuckled Santa Paws. " I have to say, when I was a young pup, I also made some mistakes. Look at me now! I grew up just fine!

2020, Sara J J Gunkel, Dear Santa Paws, Page Publishing Inc, →ISBN, page 13:

(humorous, fiction) An equivalent to Santa Claus as an anthropomorphic dog or cat.


hathi

We useter watch the steamers an' the hathis pilin' teak. Elephints a-pilin' teak

the Hathi is a wily animal , and will face fire and steel rather than what he suspects to be a trap

1922, Earl Louis Mountbatten Mountbatten of Burma, The Diaries of Lord Louis Mountbatten 1920-1922:

Here were we, jampacked on a narrow track down which the hathi was certain to come if he came at all , not a fire - iron of any sort among the lot of us, to all appearances not a vestige of an escape on either side

1923, E. H. D. Sewell, The Log of a Sportsman, page 151:


Simmenthaler

Synonym of Simmental (“kind of Swiss cattle”)


Simmentaler

Alternative form of Simmenthaler (“kind of Swiss cattle”)


pupy

my resolution for 2024 is uh ummm uhhh be a good pupy... :3 🐶

2023 December 29, @chubbypunkpup, Twitter:

2023 AWARD FOR INNOVATION AND EXCELLENCE IN THEIR FIELD / recipients: fox, for being the first pupy to ever be kity. / JOIN US NEXT YEAR

finsihdd It. Ough.... this took 2 long ❤❤❤ its ok ❤❤❤ all for lolwut ❤❤❤ aka retard pupy ❤❤❤

(Internet slang, childish, endearing, humorous) Deliberate misspelling of puppy.


hemippe

From the subspecific epithet hemippus, from Ancient Greek ἡμῐ- (hēmĭ-, “half”) + ῐ̔́ππος (hĭ́ppos, “horse”).

The Syrian wild ass (Equus hemionus hemippus).


Tate's shrew rat

en-noun

Tate's shrew rat (plural Tate's shrew rats)

Named after American zoologist George Henry Hamilton Tate.

Tateomys rhinogradoides, a rodent in the family Muridae, found only in central Sulawesi, Indonesia.


groomling

[…] though it was pitch-dark, and we were obliged to be escorted by grooms and groomlings with candles and lanterns; a very necessary precaution, as the winds blew not more violently without the house than within.

1835, William Beckford, Italy: With Sketches of Spain and Portugal, volume 1, page 13:

Half an hour later the two girls were in the wood near Tangley Manor, gathering wild flowers, while the ponies waited in a sheltered corner, and the groomling in charge slumbered placidly in the bottom of the carriage, with the reins in his hands.

1880, [Mary Elizabeth Braddon], “In Tangley Wood”, in Just as I Am […], volume II, London: John and Robert Maxwell […], →OCLC, page 230:

A little or young groom (“person who looks after horses”).


plague rat

Modern sense coined during the COVID-19 pandemic as a reference to rats being a common carrier of disease, possibly also looking at the role of rats in the Black Plague and influenced by the use of "rat" as a derogatory insult in general.

She was found to be one of the type of white women whose nasal organs appear never to have been developed, and who take to the loathsome Mongolian and his filthy hovel as blithely as a plague rat to a sewer.

1903 February 8, The Truth, Sydney, page 3, column 4:

A rat which acts as a vector of the plague; a sewer rat.


flitterbat

(regional or poetic) A bat (flying mammal).


schnocker

Puggles, poogles and schnoodles. Schnockers, dorkies and doodles. Dog lovers have hundreds of breeds to pick from when selecting a new family pet, and crossbreeds, sometimes called hybrids or designer dogs, offer unusual choices.

2008 March 30, Brenda Showalter, “Designer dog breeds collar attention”, in The Republic, Columbus, Ind., page C1:

“They’re schnockers.” “Schnockers?” “Yes,” she explained. “They are part schnauzer and part cocker spaniel.” “You have a schnoodle and two schnockers?” I asked her, barely containing myself.

2009 August 26, Tracy Beckerman, “Just another dog schnarticle”, in Suburban Trends, page D3:

1st generation schnockers. 1st and 2nd shots as well as UTD on worming. Health guarantee. $500

2016 October 6, Billings Gazette, volume 131, number 156, page C6:

A dog that is a cross between a schnauzer and a cocker spaniel.


poogle

For example, let’s say you've done some research and confirmed that there are a growing number of city apartment dwellers who have, or are looking to buy, a poogle (a beagle-poodle hybrid).

2008, Mitch Meyerson, Mary Eule Scarborough, Mastering Online Marketing, Entrepreneur Media, Inc., →ISBN, page 36:

John and Julie have four dogs: a rat-poo, which is a rat terrier mixed with a toy poodle, a yorkie poo, a poogle and my favorite, a shih-tzu poo.

2013, Trish Felice Cohen, Maternity Leave, Bella Books:


shorkie

Caesar’s Pets in Rio Rancho carries many varieties of designer dogs, including shorkies (shi-tzu crossed with Yorkie) and cavapoos (King Charles Cavalier spaniel crossed with poodle), said store co-owner Mindy Roberson.

2006 November 4, Tracy Dingmann, “Designer Dogs Breed Discontent”, in Albuquerque Journal, 126th year, number 308, page A4:

Pets: Black Labrador named Murphy and a shorkie named Sookie

2011 December 1, “Student of the week”, in Dayton Daily News, volume 135, number 48, page 2:

Billie, a shorkie, snuggles inside the jacket of Belinda Buck of Des Moines.

2013 March 29, “Dogs get spring in their step”, in The Des Moines Register, page 1:

A dog that is a cross between a Shih Tzu and Yorkie.


shihpoo

Now there are dozens of mixes, most of which are a poodle blend. There is the goldendoodle, labradoodle, maltipoo, schnoodle, shihpoo, and the puggle, a mix of a pug and a beagle.

2007, Earl Mindell, Elizabeth Renaghan, Dr. Earl Mindell’s Nutrition and Health for Dogs, Basic Health Publications, Inc., →ISBN, page 117:

I have four dogs, yet I compare prices of shihpoos, whatever that is.

2009, Lisa Scottoline, Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog: The Amazing Adventures of an Ordinary Woman, Thorndike Press, Gale, published 2010, →ISBN, page 33:

Santa Claus, aka Genete Bowen, lwaits^([sic]) while elf Cindy Hardy gets Ellie, a shihpoo, ready to pose during the Santa Paws fundraiser Saturday for the Central Coast Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

2019 December 15, “Furry friends list off their Christmas wishes at Santa Paws”, in Santa Maria Times, volume 138, number 204, page A3:

A dog that is a cross between a Shih Tzu and miniature poodle.