pollard

en-verb

pollard (third-person singular simple present pollards, present participle pollarding, simple past and past participle pollarded)

pollards (present singular third-person)
pollarding (participle present)
pollarded (participle past)
pollarded (past)

I didn't know one could pollard elms. I thought one only pollarded willows.

1910, Edward Morgan Forster, chapter 11, in Howards End:

As well as coppicing, other trees were pollarded, or lopped about 6 ft up the trunk so that the resulting growth was beyond the reach of grazing animals. Pollarding lengthens the life of trees, and the frequently made estimate '1,000 years old' could well be true of some sturdy old trunks.

1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 118:

Cutting back to the same position annually is usually referred to as pollarding; cutting nearly to the ground is usually called stooling. Both are good methods of controlling height and maintaining vigor on plants that would normally grow to a large size.

2011, Edward F. Gilman, An Illustrated Guide to Pruning, 3rd edition, Clifton Park, N.Y.: Delmar, Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 411:

I walked up the path, passing under a heavily pollarded oak.

2019, Ian McEwan, Machines Like Me, Jonathan Cape, page 287:

(horticulture) To prune a tree heavily, cutting branches back to the trunk, so that it produces dense new growth.


packhorse

Finally they put him on one of De Soto's packhorses, but even on a packhorse his feet hung down to within a few inches of the ground.

1997, Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun: Hernando de Soto and the South's Ancient Chiefdoms, page 232:

Procter had a handsome half-breed girl with him and two splendid elk heads and meat on his packhorses that he was taking to Fort Lincoln for sale.

2009, Victor Grant Smith, edited by Jeanette Prodgers, The Champion Buffalo Hunter: The Frontier Memoirs of Yellowstone Vic Smith, Revised edition, page 70:

While I was destroying my parka, the packhorse that Bob had been leading laid down. So now all our supplies were supine along with the napping packhorse. Looking upon a reclining packhorse while facing a wind-driven rain, wearing a tattered rain parka, with lightning flashing every fifteen seconds followed by thunder so loud my clothes shuddered was not how I had expected the afternoon to unfold. Each time we got the packhorse to his feet he would promptly lie down again.

2010, Bill G. Yung, The Half Fast Hunter, page 41:


jackanapes

1450, from “Jack of Naples”, with “of Naples” rendered “a Napes” in vernacular. Originally rendered as Jac Napes, Jac Nape, and Jack Napis in 1450s. Presumably from *Jak a Napes, and original *Jak of Naples, presumably circa 1400. Monkeys were one of many exotic goods from Naples exhibited in Britain, hence acquired the nickname Jack a Napes.
In sense “upstart person”, applied to 15th century William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, one of the first nouveau riche nobles (risen from merchant class). The family used a collar and chain on their coat of arms, which was an unfortunate choice, as this was more associated with monkey leashes, leading to the derisive nickname Jack Napis for de la Pole, yielding the insult.
Later mis-analyzed as Jack-an-apes (16th and 17th century), leading to folk etymology (taking “ape” from “monkey”). The same process and mis-analysis occurred for fustian of Naples, which became fustian a napes, fustian anapes, etc.
Also attributed to the transition of the playing card 'Knave' to 'Jack' where both cards were associated with the idea of roguery. The 'Jack' became the Jack a napes, derived from Jack a naipes, naipes being the Spanish for playing card.

Was there euer man had ſuch lucke? when I kiſt the Iacke vpon an vp-caſt, to be hit away? I had a hundred pound on't: and then a whoreſon Iacke-an-apes muſt take me vp for ſwearing, as if I borrowed mine oathes of him, and might not ſpend them at my pleaſure.

1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], pages 375–376:

(dated, derogatory) An impudent or mischievous person.


basset hound

From French basset (“basset hound”), nominalization of Old French adjective basset (“short-legged”), from bas (“short, low”).

A shortlegged breed of dog of the hound family.

巴吉度獵犬 /巴吉度猎犬

short-legged breed of dog of the hound family


Neandertaler

This snout-like type of face, with the projecting jaws and wide nose, persists to some extent among certain living races, notably among the Australian aborigines, whose skulls have features in common with those of Neandertalers. […] It is supposed that the forerunners of the Neandertalers and of the gorilla evolved for so far together, because their respective skeletons have so many points in common.

1913, Hugo v[on] Buttel-Reepen, Man and His Forerunners, London: Longmans, Green and Co., pages 50 and 74:

The skeleton of the fourth species, the Neandertalers, is almost completely known from the remains of numerous individuals. These Neandertalers are most puzzling beings. They had receding foreheads with monstrous brow-ridges, and they walked with a permanent crouch, and yet they had big brains and were skilled workers in stone.

1916, Science Progress in the Twentieth Century: A Quarterly Journal of Scientific Work & Thought, volume X, page 269:

The legends of ogres and man-eating giants that haunt the childhood of the world may descend to us from those ancient days of fear. And for the Neandertalers it was the beginning of an incessant war that could end only in extermination. The Neandertalers, albeit not so erect and tall as men, were the heavier, stronger creatures, but they were stupid, and they went alone or in twos and threes; […]

1927 September, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “The Grisly Folk”, in The Short Stories of H. G. Wells, London: Ernest Benn Limited […], →OCLC, page 689:

Neandertal Man, Homo neanderthalensis King. The true or ‘classical’ Neandertaler with his dorsally flattened, very large and long head, big brow ridges, prognathous face, round eye sockets, very large braincase and a stockily built, powerful body, lived during the 4-Würm up to the great interstadial about 35,000 years ago, when this species became extinct. […] Our own species may be definitely identified in the 4-Würm interstadial, the time when men of modern type invaded Europe and ousted the Neandertalers. On the other hand, it has been thought that specimens like Fontéchevade Man (two skull caps without a trace of the Neandertal brow ridge) have to be counted in this species, even if Steinheim and Swanscombe are left as Neandertalers.

1968, Björn Kurtén, Pleistocene Mammals of Europe, Routledge, published 2017, →ISBN, pages 60–61:

This was the most complete Neandertal skeleton found in western Europe up to that time. Once it was reconstructed, the world could see what a Neandertaler looked like. […] Piltdown Man was one of Boule’s proofs that modern humans with their high-domed skulls dated much further back than the Neandertalers.

1992, Marvin L. Lubenow, Bones of Contention: A Creationist Assessment of the Human Fossils, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Books, →ISBN, page 36:

The Neandertalers (Homo sapiens neanderthalensis) were a subspecies of prehistoric humans inhabiting Europe and parts of Western Asia from about 150,000 to 35,000 years ago. The first Neandertal fossil was discovered (1856) by quarrymen in a cave in the Neander Valley, near Düsseldorf, Germany. […] Evidence indicates that the Neandertalers hunted a variety of animals, including cave bear, woolly rhinoceros, and mammoth, and also gathered plant foods.

1998, “Neandertalers”, in Academic American Encyclopedia, volume 14, →ISBN, pages 68–69:


tack up

tack up (third-person singular simple present tacks up, present participle tacking up, simple past and past participle tacked up)

tacks up (present singular third-person)
tacking up (participle present)
tacked up (participle past)
tacked up (past)

To prepare a horse for riding by equipping it with tack (harness, reins, saddle etc.)


dogie

Unknown.
Possibly an abbreviation of dough-guts, the pot bellied appearance of a malnourished calf. Possibly the transliteration of the slang word dobie/dobe/doby, pejoratively meaning inferior. Since dogie and dobie in reference to an orphaned calf both appeared in print around the same time (1880-1888), it is possible that dogie is the original and dobie is the transliteration.

When she was a child, her father often gave her orphaned calves to look after, and every so often, she would fold the grown ones in with the steers when they were shipped off to Fort Worth. She made enough money off her dogies to make investments in stocks […]

2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 49:

(colloquial) A motherless calf in a range herd of cattle; a calf separated from its cow.


skewbald

From skew + bald (where bald means having patches of white).

gloss

(of horses) Marked with patches of white and non-black colours.

scheckig

1. Marked with patches of white and non-black colours


grampus

From Middle English *grampas, grappays, grapas, graspeys, from Anglo-Norman grampais, Old French graspois, craspois (“whale, (salted) whale meat; blubber; seal”), from Medieval Latin craspicis (literally “fat fish”), from Latin crassus (“fat”) + piscis (“fish”).

der

Some time after this we saw some very large fish, which I afterwards found were called grampusses.

1789, Olaudah Equiano, chapter 3, in The Interesting Narrative, volume I:

The Governor will blow like an old grampus, I know he will,—well, we must stop till he gets his wind again.

1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 19, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:

‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’

1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 20, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

Blowing like a grampus from every orifice, I leaned on a passing wave which dumped me[.]

1980, Ian Chappell, Chappelli has the last laugh, page 39:

Grampus griseus
Grampus griseus#Translingual

Risso's dolphin, Grampus griseus, with a blunt nose.

giant whip scorpion (Mastigoproctus giganteus)


black cat

Pekania pennanti
Pekania pennanti#Translingual

Martes pennanti
Martes pennanti#Translingual

A fisher, North American marten that has thick brown fur (Pekania pennanti, syn. Martes pennanti).


kitty-cat

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Felis silvestris catus
Felis silvestris catus#Translingual

(colloquial, usually childish) A domestic cat (subspecies Felis silvestris catus).


tamandua

From the genus name, from Tupian. Doublet of tamanoir.

Tamanduas eat many kinds of ants as well as termites and bees. They tend to shy away from army ants and ponerine ants, both of which give nasty stings. When threatened, a tamandua may sit up on its hind legs and brandish its sharp curved claws.

1999, John C. Kricher, A Neotropical Companion: An Introduction to the Animals, Plants, and Ecosystems of the New World Tropics, 2nd edition, page 307:

The tamandua is easily separated from the giant anteater by its smaller size, its coloration, and the shape of its tail. Most tamanduas in southern South America are golden brown with a black vest covering the dorsum and venter, crossing the shoulders in a black band, but on some individuals the vest may be greatly reduced or even absent.

2000, John F. Eisenberg, Mammals of the Neotropics, volume 3, Ecuador, Bolivia, Brazil, page 93:

They have coarse tan or brown pelage, and in the northern tamandua (Tamandua mexicana) and in southern specimens of the southern tamandua (T. tetradactyla) black fur forms a “vest” (figure 15.8B). Tamanduas have a prehensile tail that aids in climbing.

2007, George A. Feldhamer, Lee C. Drickamer, Stephen H. Vessey, Joseph F. Merritt, Carey Krajewski, Mammalogy: Adaptation, Diversity, Ecology, 3rd edition, page 307:


horsewoman

A woman who is skilled with horses; a female equestrian.


manège

en-noun

manège (countable and uncountable, plural manèges)

From French manège; cognate with French manier and English manage.


draft horse

From draft (itself from to draw) + horse.

(American spelling) A horse used for muscular work other than carrying a rider and/or load, such as pulling a cart, plow, or log.


roan

From Middle French roan, probably from Spanish roano, from Old Spanish raudano, itself probably of Germanic origin (compare Gothic *𐍂𐌰𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌽 (*raudan), accusative of 𐍂𐌰𐌿𐌸𐍃 (rauþs, “red”). Compare rowan.

roan binding


Siamese cat

A short-haired breed of domestic cat having blue eyes and pointed coat pattern, that is, a pale body and dark extremities.


American Bobtail

American Bobtail (plural American Bobtails)

A short-haired domestic cat breed originating in the United States, having a short tail as a result of genetic mutation.


American Curl

A short-hair or semi-longhair domestic cat breed originating in the United States. This breed displays distinctive backward curling ears.


American Keuda

Initialism, from a 1980s study in the US southwest entitled Kitten Evaluation Under Direct Assessment, which sought to establish the characteristics of the ideal barn cat.

The only other breed said to have this flap is the American Keuda.

And if you aren't bored already here are some more: American Keuda, American Ringtail,[…].

2008, Vicky Halls, The Complete Cat, page 122:

This is not the first breed to be developed from street cats; as the American Shorthair, European Shorthair, and American Keuda all show.

2012, Nancy Robbins, Domestic Cats: Their History, Breeds and Other Facts, page 127:

(zoology) A domestic cat of a provisional breed originating in the United States.


American Shorthair

American Shorthair (plural American Shorthairs)

A large, short-haired domestic cat breed originating in the United States.


American Wirehair

American Wirehair (plural American Wirehairs)

A large domestic cat of a breed with hard, wiry fur and crinkly whiskers, originating in the United States.


Asian Semi-longhair

Asian Semi-longhair (plural Asian Semi-longhairs)

A rare domestic cat breed originating in Britain.


Australian Mist

Australian Mist (plural Australian Mists)

A medium-sized, short-haired domestic cat of a breed originating in Australia.


Birman

A medium-sized semi-longhair domestic cat of a breed originating in Burma.


British Shorthair

British Shorthair (plural British Shorthairs)

A medium-sized shorthaired domestic cat of a breed originating in Great Britain.


Burmilla

Blend of Burmese + chinchilla; see Chinchilla Persian.

A medium-sized shorthair domestic cat breed, originating in Great Britain.


California Spangled Cat

California Spangled Cat (plural California Spangled Cats)

(felinology) A domestic cat of an extinct medium-sized, short-haired breed, originating in the United States during the 1980s, which was bred to resemble a leopard.


Chartreux

Borrowed from French Chartreux. Compare chartreuse.

A member of a breed of large, blue, short-haired domestic cats, originating in France.


Chausie

(felinology) A large, shorthair, domestic cat hybrid, crossbred from a female Abyssinian and a male Felis chaus.


Cornish Rex

A domestic cat of a medium-sized breed with short wavy hair, originating in Great Britain.


Devon Rex

A domestic cat of a particular medium-sized breed with rippled or swirling hair, originated in Britain in the 1960s.


Egyptian Mau

A domestic cat of a short-haired breed originating in Egypt, with a well-muscled medium-length body.


European Shorthair

European Shorthair (plural European Shorthairs)

A sturdy short-hair domestic cat breed, developed from various ordinary cat breeds.


Exotic Shorthair

Exotic Shorthair (plural Exotic Shorthairs)

A domestic cat breed similar to the Persian cat but with a short dense coat.


German Rex

A domestic cat of a medium-sized breed with slender legs and a short silky coat.


Havana Brown

A chocolate-colored domestic cat breed, similar to the Siamese breed.


Japanese Bobtail

Japanese Bobtail (plural Japanese Bobtails)

A domestic cat of a particular breed with a short bobbed tail like that of a rabbit.


Korat

A blue-grey short-haired breed of domestic cat with heart-shaped head and large green eyes.


LaPerm

A domestic cat of a particular breed with curly fur.


Nebelung

A domestic cat of a particular breed with long bodies, wide-set green eyes, and long dense silky blue-gray fur.


Ocicat

A domestic cat of a breed that is spotted like a wild cat, established from Siamese and Abyssinian stock.


Ojos Azules

A domestic cat breed, originating in the southwest United States, that has deep blue eyes.


Oriental Longhair

Oriental Longhair (plural Oriental Longhairs)


Oriental Shorthair

Oriental Shorthair (plural Oriental Shorthairs)

A domestic cat of a breed related to the Siamese.


Peterbald

From St Petersburg, where the breed was created, and bald.

A domestic cat of a typically hairless Russian breed with a slim muscular build.


Pixie-bob

A domestic cat of a breed developed to resemble the North American bobcat.


Russian Blue

(zoology) A domestic cat of a breed with dense silver to grey fur.


Scottish Fold

A domestic cat of a breed with ears folded down towards the front of the head.


Selkirk Rex

A domestic cat of a breed with highly curled hair.


Singapura

A domestic cat of a small breed with large eyes and ears, brown ticked coat and blunt tail.


Skookum

(US, historical) A kind of Native American-themed souvenir doll once common in tourist areas.


Snowshoe

A domestic cat of a particular breed with a light body and darker ears, face, legs, and tail.


Sokoke

A domestic cat of a particular breed with a blotched tabby coat.


Sphynx

Sphynx cats are often called hairless cats. But Sphynx do have hair. Very short, fine hairs called down cover the Sphynx’s body.

2001, Joanne Mattern, The Sphynx Cat, Capstone, →ISBN, page 7:

A domestic cat of a breed with little or no hair, a narrow long head, and webbed feet.


Toyger

A domestic cat of a breed with a tiger-like striped coat.


Turkish Angora

A domestic cat of an ancient breed with a long, silky coat.


Turkish Van

A domestic cat of a rare semi-long-haired breed developed in the United Kingdom from cats obtained from various cities of modern Turkey. They have a coloured head and tail and a white body.


York Chocolate Cat

York Chocolate Cat (plural York Chocolate Cats)

An American breed of longhaired domestic cat.


nilgai

From Hindi नीलगाय (nīlgāy, “nilgai”), from नीला (nīlā, “blue”) + गाय (gāy, “cow”).

A large antelope, of species Boselaphus tragocamelus, of India; blue bull.


vesper bat

Any member of the Vespertilionidae, a family of bats.


ragdoll

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Alternative form: Ragdoll

A modern American breed of domestic cat with a longhair colourpoint coat that relaxes completely when picked up.


shorthair

Any of several breeds of domestic cat with relatively short hair, slender body and large head.


spermaceti

From Latin sperma (“sperm”) + Latin cētī (“of the whale”, genitive of cētus).

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genitive of <i class="Latn mention" lang="la">cētus</i>

Moreover, as that of Heidelburgh was always replenished with the most excellent of the wines of the Rhenish valleys, so the tun of the whale contains by far the most precious of all his oily vintages; namely, the highly-prized spermaceti, in its absolutely pure, limpid, and odoriferous state.

1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 77, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

A wax obtained from the head of sperm whales and used to make cosmetics, etc.


hyracoid

An animal of the order Hyracoidea, i.e. a hyrax.


hyracoid

en-adj

hyracoid (comparative more hyracoid, superlative most hyracoid)

more hyracoid (comparative)
most hyracoid (superlative)

(zoology) Of or relating to the hyraxes (order Hyracoidea).

Displaying characteristics typical of hyraxes.


hominin

From translingual Hominini, from the stem of Latin homo (“man”). Compare hominid.

[...] prefer the third explanation for the advanced-looking features of Neandertals (Chapter 7) and the Ngandong hominins (Chapter 6), but they have had little to say about the post-Erectine archaics from China.

Caspari and Lee carried out comparisons ranging from ancient hominins such as australopithecines through to Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons, assessing the ratios of young adults to old adults.

2011, Chris Stringer, The Origin of Our Species, Penguin, published 2012, page 151:

This means that, in addition to democracy and gorillas, we must now credit Greece with being the cradle of the hominins - of which we humans are the only living representatives.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 119:

(paleontology) Any member of the taxonomic tribe Hominini, the evolutionary group that includes modern humans and now-extinct bipedal relatives.


croyn

en-verb

croyn (third-person singular simple present croyns, present participle croyning, simple past and past participle croyned)

croyns (present singular third-person)
croyning (participle present)
croyned (participle past)
croyned (past)

(obsolete) Cry as deer do at rutting time; murmur deeply.


genet

en-noun

genet (countable and uncountable, plural genets)

From Middle English genet, ionet, from Anglo-Norman genette, Middle French genette, jenette et al., of uncertain origin.

Any of several Old World nocturnal, carnivorous mammals, of the genus Genetta in the family Viverridae, most of which have a spotted coat and a long, ringed tail.


kouprey

A wild, forest-dwelling ox, Bos sauveli, from Vietnam and surrounding countries.


banteng

A wild ox, Bos javanicus, found in Borneo, Malaysia and the Indochina peninsula.


Afrikander

Alternative form of Afrikaner (“breed of cattle”)


protohominid

Although the ethological studies of chimpanzees cannot present us with a picture of the life of the protohominids, they can give us some insights into what these conditions may have been like.

1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 193:

Any of several primitive animals that were evolutionary ancestors of the hominids.


saun

1810, Decoy Elephants Catching a Male, in Enos Bronson (editor), Select Reviews of Literature, and Spirit of Foreign Magazines, Volume 3, page 123,
Though on some occasions the mahouts accompany the koomkies up to the saun, yet it is safer, and generally the most sure and easy mode, for them to dismount in some contiguous cover with their blankets and ropes, leading the koomkies to the saun, towards which they proceed in the most cunning style.

A male elephant that is not part of a herd; a rogue.


pteropodine

Of or pertaining to the flying foxes and similar bats of the subfamily Pteropodinae


vaquita

From Spanish vaquita (“little cow”), diminutive of vaca (“cow”).

THE world’s smallest porpoise may have a fighting chance. The vaquita might be saved from extinction by an agreement at a meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in Portoroz, Slovenia, last week.
Unique to the Gulf of California, the vaquita has seen its numbers collapse to 59 in 2015.

2015 November 5, “Whale of a deal”, in New Scientist, number 3098, page 6:

A critically endangered porpoise, the smallest of its kind, Phocoena sinus, endemic to the northern part of the Gulf of California, Mexico.


boongary

The boongary sleeps during the day, nestled in a fork in the branches high among the tree-tops.

1990, Reader's Digest, Did You Know?: New Insights Into a World That Is Full of Astonishing Stories:


hairy-eared dwarf lemur

hairy-eared dwarf lemur (plural hairy-eared dwarf lemurs)


diademed sifaka

diademed sifaka (plural diademed sifakas)

Propithecus diadema, an endangered species of sifaka, one of the lemurs endemic to certain rainforests in eastern Madagascar.


freemartin

unk

Etymology unknown.

"Has your cat been spayed?" "I didn't need to: she's a freemartin."

Any female animal born sterile or otherwise infertile.


ridgeback

Any of three breeds of dog with a distinctive ridge of hair that runs against the grain of the rest of the coat along the spine: the Rhodesian Ridgeback, the Phu Quoc Ridgeback and the Thai Ridgeback.


yakalo

“Yakalos” breed true to type, are sturdy and able to forage for themselves, he said.

1924 July 8, “Breed Yaks with Bison: New Animal Called Yakalo Good Beef Producer”, in Ogden Standard-Examiner, Ogden, Utah, page 8:

The meat of yakalos is said to be almost identical with beef aside from being finer-grained.

1926 December 23, “Yakalos, New Stock Breed, May Solve Meat Problem”, in Indiana Weekly Messenger, Indiana, Pennsylvania, page 7:

Instead of beefalo, he would have yakalo.

1975 November 2, D.K. Woodman, “The Case of the Reluctant Tibetan Yak”, in Mansfield News-Journal, Mansfield, Ohio, page 4C:

A hybrid cross of a yak (Bos grunniens) and an American bison (Bison bison).


blue flyer

So named from their bluish-grey fur and speed. Recorded since the 1860s.

The female red kangaroo is referred to as a Blue Flyer, whilst the male is generally known as a Marloo or Boomer.

2006, Lynda Staker, The Complete Guide to the Care of Macropods:


brocket

Borrowed from Middle French brocart, broquart.

Before fighting, brockets rear and jump in display; when fighting, they jump over each other, striking the opponent with the hooves of the forelegs or hind legs in passing.

1998, Valerius Geist, Deer of the World, page 118:

A genus, Mazama, of short-horned deer from Brazil.


pricket

From Middle English precat, preket, priket, pryket; equivalent to prick + -et. Earlier currency of the Middle English word is apparently implied by surnames and borrowings into Latin and Anglo-Norman.

Near-synonyms: brocket, knobber, knobbler, spitter

he can stay / For the new-mown hay, / And startle the dappled prickets?

1816, John Keats, For there's Bishop's Teign:

A male deer in its second year, whose antlers have not yet branched.


Cavachon

Cavalier King Charles Spaniel
Cavalier King Charles Spaniel

A breed of dog that is a cross between a Bichon Frisé and a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel.


springer spaniel

en-noun

springer spaniel (plural springer spaniels)

A dog of either of two different breeds (the English springer spaniel and the Welsh springer spaniel).


hoofstock

Ruminants and members of the horse family.


spotted dolphin

spotted dolphin (plural spotted dolphins)

Atlantic spotted dolphin
Atlantic spotted dolphin

Any of two species of dolphins of the genus Stenella.

Atlantic spotted dolphin (Stenella frontalis)

pantropical spotted dolphin
pantropical spotted dolphin

pantropical spotted dolphin (Stenella attenuata)

Spotted dolphins perform ‘genital buzzing’, in which an adult directs a rapid stream of low-pitched clicks at the genital area of another, usually a calf.

2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 59:


mouse deer

mouse deer (plural mouse deers or mouse deer)

mouse deers (plural)
mouse deer (plural)


sabre-toothed tiger

sabre-toothed tiger (plural sabre-toothed tigers)

Any of numerous species of extinct cat-like mammals, of the †Machairodontinae subfamily of the Felidae.


she-goat

From Middle English sche-geyt; equivalent to she- + goat.


man's best friend

Refers to the millennia-long history of close relations, loyalty, friendship, and companionship of dogs with humans.

An affectionate term for a dog, or dogs in general.


dhole

Unknown, possibly from Kannada ತೋಳ (tōḷa, “wolf”).

Mowgli's wanderings had taken him to the edge of the high grassy downs of the Dekkan, and he had seen the fearless dholes sleeping and playing and scratching themselves in the little hollows and tussocks that they use for lairs.

This whistling, a means of communication for a pack of dhole regrouping after an unsuccessful hunt, inspired the other common name of this species—the whistling dog.

2001, “Dhole”, in Endangered Wildlife and Plants of the World, Marshall Cavendish Corporation, page 451:

(zoology) An Asian wild dog, Cuon alpinus.


choodle

(slang) A mixed breed dog that is partially chihuahua and partially poodle.


blackfish

blackfish (plural blackfishes or blackfish)

(chiefly Scotland) The Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, especially a female after spawning.

Any of various dark-coloured fish of the Old World, especially the rudderfish (Centrolophus niger).

(Canada, US) Either of two dark-coloured fish of the west Atlantic, the tautog of New England (Tautoga onitis) and the black sea bass (Centropristis striata).

The creek was reputed to contain blackfish and Nathan […] arranged the extraordinary collection of American lures he had inherited from an uncle.

1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 337:

(Australia, New Zealand) Any of various dark-coloured fishes of Australasia, especially the luderick, Girella tricuspidata, and a freshwater fish, Gadopsis marmoratus.


blackfish

en-verb

blackfish (third-person singular simple present blackfishes, present participle blackfishing, simple past and past participle blackfished)

blackfishes (present singular third-person)
blackfishing (participle present)
blackfished (participle past)
blackfished (past)

Blend of black + catfish (“(to create) a fake online profile”)

blend

Judging from not only various records of campus life but also the numerous Instagram accounts of women appearing as "black" personalities — a phenomenon known as "blackfishing" — many do not know better.

2019, Wil Haygood, “Why Won’t Blackface Go Away? It’s Part of America’s Troubled Cultural Legacy”, in The New York Times:

On Sept. 28, Tumblr user wickedghastly posted allegations that the rapper has blackfished her fans. “Literally if you just look at images of her you can physically see her morphing herself over the years into looking Black,” wickedghastly wrote.

2020, Kris Seavers, “Newsletter: Princess Nokia accused of blackfishing”, in Daily Dot:

(Internet slang, derogatory, of a non-black person) To adopt signifiers of black identity (for example, by darkening the skin, or wearing traditionally black hairstyles).


gemsbok

From Afrikaans gemsbok, from Dutch gemsbok, from gems (“chamois”) + bok (“buck”), the former from German Gämse, of uncertain origin.

A large African antelope (Oryx gazella).

gemsbok

a large African antelope of the Oryx genus


claiming race

In a claiming race, each horse is in a sense up for sale. That is, any owner who has raced a horse at the track during the meet in progress may put in a claim to buy any horse racing in a claiming race.

1968, Marvin B. Scott, The Racing Game, page 15:

(horse racing) A race in which the competing horse can be claimed by anyone at the specified claiming price for the race.


crab-eating raccoon

en-noun

crab-eating raccoon (plural crab-eating raccoons)

Procyon cancrivorus
Procyon cancrivorus#Translingual

A species of raccoon Procyon cancrivorus, found in the jungles of Central and South America.


aoudad

Aoudads compete with native deer and actually run them off shared range, according to TPWD^([Texas Parks and Wildlife Department]) ethnobotanist David Alloway. There is no doubt that the aoudad must be removed from the ranch; the only question is how.

1995, Dick Bartlett, Saving the Best of Texas: A Partnership Approach to Conservation, page 183:

In captivity the aoudad seems to like water and to enjoy taking a bath. The diet consists of grass, herbaceous plants, and stunted bushes.

1999, Ronald M. Nowak, “Aoudad, or Barbary Sheep”, in Walker′s Mammals of the World, volume 1, page 1231:

New Mexico addressed this anxiety by issuing game department personnel a shoot-on-sight order for any aoudad found inside known bighorn boundaries in New Mexico. By comparison, Arizona′s intent was to eliminate any aoudad loose anywhere inside its jurisdiction, and its neighbor′s other additions were not welcome either.

2007, Elizabeth Cary Mungall, Exotic Animal Field Guide: Nonnative Hoofed Mammals in the United States, page 12:

Ammotragus lervia
Ammotragus lervia#Translingual


Barbary sheep

A wild North African caprid (not a true sheep), Ammotragus lervia


behind the bit

(idiomatic, of a horse) Evading the bit.


tree kangaroo

Any of several Australian macropods, of the genus Dendrolagus, adapted for life in the trees.


scaly anteater

Any of several species of pangolin (Manis spp.).


Chinese pangolin

Chinese pangolin (plural Chinese pangolins)

Any of species Manis pentadactyla of pangolins.


Indian pangolin

Indian pangolin (plural Indian pangolins)

A pangolin of species Manis crassicaudata.


Sunda pangolin

A pangolin of species Manis javanica, of Southeast Asia.


giant pangolin

A pangolin of species Manis gigantea of tropical parts of western Africa and western central Africa.


ground pangolin

ground pangolin (plural ground pangolins)

A pangolin of species Smutsia temminckii (syn. Manis temminckii).


tree pangolin

A pangolin of species Phataginus tricuspis (syn. Manis tricuspis), found in southeastern Asia and northern Australia, especially in mangroves.


long-tailed pangolin

long-tailed pangolin (plural long-tailed pangolins)

A pangolin of species Phataginus tetradactyla (syn. Manis tetradactyla).


Cape buffalo

Syncerus caffer
Syncerus caffer#Translingual

A large African bovid, of species Syncerus caffer.

(specifically) of the subspecies Syncerus caffer caffer found in southern and eastern Africa.


African buffalo

African buffalo (plural African buffalos)


numbat

Myrmecobius fasciatus
Myrmecobius fasciatus#Translingual

A small marsupial carnivore, Myrmecobius fasciatus, endemic to western Australia, that eats almost exclusively termites.


banded anteater

banded anteater (plural banded anteaters)

(former common name) The numbat (Myrmecobius fasciatus).


silky anteater

A species of anteater (Cyclopes didactylus, formerly Myrmecophaga didactyla).


collared anteater

collared anteater (plural collared anteaters)


lesser anteater

lesser anteater (plural lesser anteaters)


African anteater

African anteater (plural African anteaters)


saddlecloth

A blanket placed under a saddle, a saddle blanket.

çul

blanket placed under a saddle — see also saddle blanket


saddle blanket

a blanket that is placed under a saddle as a cushion and to protect the horse's back.

տապճակ

blanket under saddle — see also saddlecloth


saddle pad

A pad placed under a saddle on a horse, like a saddle blanket but thicker.


hajeen

(archaic) A domesticated camel or dromedary used for riding


spitter

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(herpetology, slang) Synonym of spitting cobra.


mops

Borrowed from German Mops (“pug”), from Dutch mops.


cattitude

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It took a lot of Rosie and Ernie to forgive their "bad cattitude" kitty.

2011, M. R. Wells, Connie Fleishauer, & Dottie Adams, The Cat Lover's Devotional, Harvest House Publishers, →ISBN, page 64:

Rani, the cat, was a different ball game. She liked to keep her distance, had considerable cattitude, and preferred to live in a world of her own. She loved (and lived) her name – the queen, the royal one.

2013, Rohini Singh, Free Fall: The Journey Home, Hay House Publishers, →ISBN:

He adjusted to domesticated life remarkably well, retaining his regal feral “cattitude.”

2014, Kathleen M. Downey, Legendary Locals of Newburyport, Legendary Locals, →ISBN, page 18:


jump off

en-verb

jump off (third-person singular simple present jumps off, present participle jumping off, simple past and past participle jumped off)

jumps off (present singular third-person)
jumping off (participle present)
jumped off (participle past)
jumped off (past)

(sports, equestrianism) To participate in the final round of an equestrian showjumping event.


docodont

Any of several extinct mammals of the order Docodonta.


prizzly

A hybrid between a polar bear and a grizzly bear.


ant bear

Myrmecophaga tridactyla
Myrmecophaga tridactyla#Translingual

giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla)


weaner

"I mean she's too young to get married," said Oscar. "Doesn't know she's alive yet—like calfing a weaner."

1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter IX, in Capricornia, page 138:

An animal that has been recently weaned.


sausage dog

A draught excluder in the shape of a dog.


raoellid

Any of a group of extinct hoofed mammals of the family †Raoellidae from Eocene India, thought to be ancestors of the whales.


King Charles spaniel

en-noun

King Charles spaniel (plural King Charles spaniels)

First brought into notice by King Charles II.

A breed of toy dog originating from England.


quey

Of Scandinavian origin, ultimately from Old Norse kvíga.

So I sent away the two queys, one of them is pranded and the other plack.^([eye dialect, meaning: branded... black])

1875, William Robertson, Sketches of Highland Character: Sheep-farmers and Drovers, Edmonston and Douglas, page 13:

The blue ribbon in the section for two-year-old queys in calf was carried away by a sweet little animal owned by Mr. Frame, Blantyre Park, which had never been shown at any other exhibition.

1878, The Farmer's Magazine, Volume 53: January-June 1878, page 461:

Ewan, who with others was giving friendly help to the manager and herds, was in charge of the queys, which were disposed of and driven out while Mary was still taking instructions from the executor at the auctioneer's stand.

1890, The Highland Monthly, Volume 1, page 584:


pittie

pittie (countable and uncountable, plural pitties)

I was used to slammed doors, rumbling buses, shouting, snarling pitties, police sirens, […]

2012, Marta Acosta, Dark Companion, page 33:

Maybe he'd want a signal from me that he should rush to the carrier and retrieve a pittie on his own— a small one, alive, our new class pet.

2014, Ellen Cooney, The Mountaintop School for Dogs and Other Second Chances, page 247:

Lori and I rescued a pittie from a local rescue organization and our lives have never been the same.

2015 August, Sara Ernest, “Love in Rescue”, in Quorum, page 6:

(informal, endearing) A pit bull terrier.


latrant

From Latin lātrans (“barking, ranting”), present participle of lātrāre (“to bark, to rant”). Equivalent to latrate + -ant.

Thus—All triangles are all trilaterals. 2°, It may designate a class considered as undivided, though not positively thought as taken in its whole extent; and this may be articulately denoted by (:.). Thus—The triangle is the trilateral;—The dog is the latrant.— (Here note the use of the definite article in English, Greek, French, German,^α &c.)

1860, William Hamilton, “Appendix”, in H[enry] L[ongueville] Mansel and John Veitch, editors, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic […], volume IV, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 279:

(rare, obsolete) One who is barking, a dog, (figurative) a complainer.


chilver

The chilver and pur lambs, at 2d. per head for about 40 weeks, will cost

1812, General View of the Agriculture of the County of Dorset, page 407:

For the last few years I have put out my Chilver lambs to keep from the middle of October til Lady-day upon a dry, sheltered, and healthy farm, andd as the result of this plan, I have found that the lambs did quite as well there with cut swedes and hay as they would on my high exposed farm during the winter upon the same allowance of roots and hay, with the addition of a quarter of a pound of best cake per day for each lamb.

1868, British Farmer's Magazine - Issue 54, page 114:

Among the purchasers of the Chilver lambs were Mr. Morrison, a lot at £170; Mr. Taylor, £80; Mr. Buxton, :£33 10s, Mr Holdsworth £34

1874, The Farmer's Magazine - Volume 76, page 259:

To repairing Hurne bridge 1 chilver shepe.

1898, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, page 66:

If anything has to go short, it will not be the heifers or chilver lambs, as they call their yearling ewes ; and in fact , as I have already said, except in the occasional seasons of drouth, the Dorset ewe during the four or five years of her life never knows what it is to want.

1898, Wool Markets and Sheep - Volumes 8-9, page 2:

In the summer and autumn, the chilver lambs are frequently folded, being fed on grass, rape, turnips, and hay, from the latter end of summer till the following spring.

1970, William Marshall, Southern and peninsular departments, page 280:


pilot whale

Either of two species of whale in the genus Globicephala, dark grey in colour.


nyaa

From the Japanese onomatopoeia にゃあ (nyā).

(anime and manga fandom) The cry of a cat; meow, miaow.


northern red-backed vole

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

Myodes rutilus
Myodes rutilus#Translingual

A species of vole, Myodes rutilus, former genus names Clethrionomys and Evotomys.


Mexican hairless

Mexican hairless (plural Mexican hairlesses)


soko

Old hunters and travellers say that they would rather steal the child of a native savage than to take one of the sokos.

1918, Royal Dixon, The Human Side of Animals, page 232:

(dated) A species of African ape, supposedly a variety of the chimpanzee.


grunter

Dalton, the winner of nine grand slam doubles titles, claims she would have been prepared to forfeit a match against the grunter par excellence, Maria Sharapova — and has urged the current generation of tennis players to do so.

2007 December 19, Linda Pearce, “Tennis grunters told to stop the racket”, in The Age:


British Semi-Longhair

British Semi-Longhair (plural British Semi-Longhairs)

A semi-longhair domestic cat breed with a cobby conformation, originating in Great Britain.


giant panda

→ Japanese: ジャイアントパンダ (jaianto panda)

Ailuropoda melanoleuca
Ailuropoda melanoleuca#Translingual

A rare, black and white mammal, Ailuropoda melanoleuca, in the ursid (bear) family.


Bombay cat

A domestic cat of a medium-sized shorthair breed, having a glossy black color and bright copper-golden eyes, developed in Kentucky during the 1950s.


lagomorph

A member of the mammalian taxonomic order Lagomorpha, a hare, a rabbit, or a pika.

lagomorf

member of the mammalian taxonomic order, Lagomorpha, which includes hares, rabbits, and pikas


tota

From a native word for it, perhaps Amharic ጦጣ (ṭoṭa, “monkey, ape”).


busser

(historical) A mid-sized horse used to pull a bus.


rusa deer

Cervus timorensis, a species of deer native to the islands of Java.


kaluta

Dasykaluta rosamondae, a carnivorous nocturnal marsupial of the Pilbara region of Western Australia.


police dog

A man who attacked three police officers and a police dog at Nottingham on April 4 has pleaded guilty to two counts of actual bodily harm, assault with intent to resist arrest, assault of an emergency worker, possession of a bladed article, possession of an offensive weapon, and causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal.

2020 April 22, “Network News: Man attacks BTP officers after being refused travel”, in Rail, page 11:

A dog trained and employed by the police to pursue suspects or sniff out contraband.


guard dog

A dog used to protect a property or its owner.


K-9 unit

Humorous homophone of canine from an old vaudeville show.

(US) A police dog or a police dog and its handler.


eastern grey kangaroo

eastern grey kangaroo (plural eastern grey kangaroos)

Macropus giganteus
Macropus giganteus#Translingual

A species of kangaroo, with a distinctive soft grey coat, Macropus giganteus


western grey kangaroo

western grey kangaroo (plural western grey kangaroos)

A kangaroo of species Macropus fuliginosis, found in most of southern Australia.


antilopine kangaroo

antilopine kangaroo (plural antilopine kangaroos)

A kangaroo of species Macropus antilopinus, found in northern Australia.


antilopine wallaby

antilopine wallaby (plural antilopine wallabies)


antilopine wallaroo

antilopine wallaroo (plural antilopine wallaroos)


mangue

The kusimanse, a genus of mongoose, Crossarchus.


Schnoodle

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:

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:

A dog that is a hybrid between a poodle and a schnauzer.


merry cocker

In fact the modern human beater — the fustian-clad yokel, with a long and stout stick and a stentorian cry of "Cock ! cock ! cock !" — has very long ago pretty well ousted the merry cockers or the more staid Clumber for driving the coverts; certainly an innovation not at all a desirable one.

1897, Rawdon Briggs Lee, A History and Description of the Modern Dogs of Great Britain and Ireland, page 227:

The merry Cocker now is one of the most popular of breeds.

1931 February 8, “Garden Dog Show to Start Tuesday”, in New York Times:

Again, the merry cocker is coming back.

1967 September 1, Fresno Bee, The, Fresno, California:


boarhound

A large dog, descended from breeds originally used to hunt boars.


bushbuck

Tragelaphus scriptus
Tragelaphus scriptus#Translingual

Either of two species of antelope (Tragelaphus scriptus or Tragelaphus sylvaticus, considered by some sources to be the single species Tragelaphus scriptus) found in Sub-Saharan Africa.


stentor

Borrowed from Latin Stentōr, from Ancient Greek Στέντωρ (Sténtōr), the name of a herald in the Iliad who had a loud voice.

Ere long a solitary amœba and stentor were found engaged in a struggle, which continued for some time with varying success, finally ending with the escape of the latter.

1894, James H. Logan, Observations on Amœba and Stentor: Western Druggist, volume 16, page 7:

When the stentors become too numerous it is a simple matter to subdivide the culture and add the requisite amount of spring water to each culture.

1943, The Biological Review, volumes 5-18, page 15:

It can be an irritant even for humans and is certainly toxic to tiny animals like stentor. He added carmine to the water tank in which the stentor was living, and simply watched to see what happened.

2004, Helen Saul, Phobias: Fighting the Fear, page 42:


lolcat

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(Internet, neologism, dated) An image macro of, usually, a kitten or a cat with a humorous caption.

lolcat

image macro of a kitten or cat with a humurous caption


reremouse

From Middle English reremous, from Old English hrēremūs, hrœ̄remūs (“bat”). By surface analysis, rear (“to move, shake, stir”) + mouse.

surf

Argent, a reremouse sable,[…]

(rare, archaic, poetic or heraldry) A bat (flying mammal).


Airedale Terrier

en-noun

Airedale Terrier (plural Airedale Terriers)


saddle tree

(equestrianism) The base on which the rest of the saddle is built, usually based on wood or a similar synthetic material, and is eventually covered in leather or a leatherlike synthetic.


DSLD

suspensory ligament
suspensory ligament#English

(pathology, equestrianism) Initialism of degenerative suspensory ligament desmitis, an equine skeletal disorder characterized by a hyperabundance of a certain proteoglycan in equine connective tissue which causes degeneration and eventually death.

equine systemic proteoglycan accumulation


riding halter

A type of rope halter specifically designed to be used for riding horses. It is considered a type of bitless bridle. Ithas two rings set low on the noseband for the purpose of attaching reins. Horse control is achieved by direct pressure on the nose.


whippador

A dog that is a cross between a whippet and a Labrador retriever.


shrow

en-verb

shrow (third-person singular simple present shrows, present participle shrowing, simple past and past participle shrowed)

shrows (present singular third-person)
shrowing (participle present)
shrowed (participle past)
shrowed (past)

Dense fogs followed; and early one morning, the city was shrowed in almost Egyptian darkness.

c. 1830, The Parterre; Or, Universal Story-teller:

Neither is there any doubt, but that many Rulers over Cities and countreys, are over ruled by their wives, but as these women knowe howe in time and place, to bee obedient to their husbands, so there are some such restive jades, that they will not at any time be commaunded, and by their importunities, exclamations, scolding, and brawling, continually withstande their husbands willes, and make a mock at them, playing with them a thousand shrowed prankes, which caused a certayne King to say, that they were very fooles that would followe their wife, running away from them.

1913, The Nineteenth Century and After - Volume 73, page 1281:

I may make it clear here that discussion on the important religious cults alongwith their attendant sects in a systematic manner is not an easy task due to the fact that systematic records have not yet been available, some of the religions have been shrowed in oblivion and many of the monuments have been damaged.

1985, H. C. Das, Cultural Development in Orissa, page 126:


spokesdog

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By analogy to spokeswoman, spokesperson, etc., formed with dog.

2008 January 19, Peter Sagal (host), Wait, Wait...Don’t Tell Me!, National Public Radio
The scientists were thrilled, but a spokesdog for the dog community said the program was inadequate.


sorel

en-noun

sorel (countable and uncountable, plural sorels)


leopard cat

Prionailurus bengalensis
Prionailurus bengalensis#Translingual

(zoology) A wild cat native to Southeast Asia, Prionailurus bengalensis.


saola

Borrowed from Vietnamese sao la, probably from Lao ເສົາຫລ (sao la, “spindle[-horned]”) or some other Tai-Kadai language.

2013, C. Michele Thompson, 10: Would a saola by any other name still be a saola?, Hue-Tam Ho Tai, Mark Sidel (editors), State, Society and the Market in Contemporary Vietnam, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 185,
The current consensus is that the saola is so rare and so solitary in terms of genetic relatives that it should be placed not only in its own separate genus (Pseudoryx) but also in its own tribe (Pseudorygini) within the subfamily Bovinae.

Killing or capture of saola is prohibited by law in both Vietnam and Lao PDR, and the sale of wildlife in both countries is generally illegal, but there is insufficient enforcement of these laws in both countries.

2014, William Robichaud, Barney Long, “Chapter 19: Saola Pseudoryx nghetinhensis Dung, Giao, Chinh, Touc, Arctander & Mackinnon, 1993”, in Mario Melletti, James Burton, editors, Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour of Wild Cattle: Implications for Conservation, Cambridge University Press, page 323:

2015, William deBuys, The Last Unicorn: A Search for One of Earth's Rarest Creatures, Hachette (Little, Brown and Company), unnumbered page,
It is surprising, twenty years after saola first attracted the world's attention, that so little about the species is known.

A critically endangered ruminant of species Pseudoryx nghetinhensis, of Vietnam and Laos.


kittle

en-adj

kittle (comparative kittler, superlative kittlest)

kittler (comparative)
kittlest (superlative)

From Middle English kitelen, from Old English citelian (“to tickle”), from Proto-West Germanic *kitilōn, from Proto-Germanic *kitilōną, frequentative form of Proto-Germanic *kitōną (“to tickle”), from Proto-Indo-European *geid- (“to stick, jab, tickle”).
Cognate with Dutch kittelen, kietelen (“to tickle”), Low German kettelen, ketelen (“to tickle”), German kitzeln (“to tickle”), Icelandic kitla (“to tickle”), Swedish kittla, kittsla, Danish kilde and perhaps Old Armenian կիծ- (kic-, “to sting, bite”). Compare tickle.

der

(Scotland and Northern England) Ticklish.


spokescat

By analogy to spokesman, spokeswoman, spokesperson, etc., with cat.

Superstar Arthur was the spokescat for a large cat food manufacturer until the cat food company decided to have Arthur's teeth removed.

2005, Alexandra Powe Allred, Cats' Most Wanted: The Top 10 Book of Mysterious Mousers, Talented Tabbies ..., page 174:


ribbon seal

Histriophoca fasciata
Histriophoca fasciata#Translingual

A species (Histriophoca fasciata) of true seal (or earless seal) found in the Arctic and subarctic regions of the North Pacific Ocean.


ritten

According to Willy Raets (famous dutch breeder who e-mails with AG) it is the above, although he can't tell for sure until the ritten is 3 months old.

1999 January 19, Anne M@rie [ Scarlet's Shelter ], “New ratties.. :-))”, in alt.pets.rodents (Usenet):


miniature poodle

en-noun

miniature poodle (plural miniature poodles)

a small poodle between 11-15 inches (28-38 cm)


toy poodle

A small poodle, measuring less than 10 inches (28 cm).


standard poodle

standard poodle (plural standard poodles)

A relatively large poodle, measuring more than 15 inches (38 cm).


mountain zebra

A species of zebra, native to South-western Angola, Namibia and South Africa, (Equus zebra)


hutia

Any of the medium-sized rodents of the subfamily Capromyinae, which inhabit the Caribbean islands.


nanny goat

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And later, at an opportune moment, when Franny was pretending to sample a cup of chicken broth, Mrs. Glass had climbed up on the window seats with the agility of a mountain nanny goat and stripped all three of the sash windows of their heavy damask curtains.

1957, J. D. Salinger, “Zooey”, in Franny and Zooey, published 1961:


antilopine

From New Latin antilope (“antelope”) + -ine.

She kept an antilopine as a pet.


noseband

The part of a bridle or halter that goes over the nose of an animal, particularly a horse.


pekan

From the Abenaki apanakes (“pine marten, Martes americana”), or a Penobscot cognate of it.

der

Martes americana
Martes americana#Translingual


washed out

en-adj

washed out (comparative more washed out, superlative most washed out)

more washed out (comparative)
most washed out (superlative)

a washed out horse

(US, horse racing) Synonym of washy (“tending to sweat profusely”)


house cat

Felis silvestris catus
Felis silvestris catus#Translingual

A domestic cat, Felis catus or Felis silvestris catus, commonly kept as a pet animal.

A pet cat that is confined to, or almost permanently resides, inside of a house.


baskimo

A mix between an American Eskimo Dog and a basset hound.


latrate

en-verb

latrate (third-person singular simple present latrates, present participle latrating, simple past and past participle latrated)

latrates (present singular third-person)
latrating (participle present)
latrated (participle past)
latrated (past)

From Latin lātrātus (“barked”) taken as a verb via English -ate, from Latin lātrāre (“to bark”). Compare Spanish ladrar (“to bark”). First attested in 1623, originally seemingly as a ghost word.

Latrate, to barke like a dog.

[1623, Henry Cockeram, The English Dictionarie Of 1623, New York: Huntington Press, published 1930, s.v., page 110:

I once saw a big dog plunging out furiously at a passing car, and, as I watched him, his gait looked peculiar. The reason for this eccentricity became clear when he returned from his latrating orgy: he had only three legs.

1928, Charles Hall Grandgent, Prunes and Prism: With Other Odds and Ends, page 145:

[…] Rip ought to know there wasn’t a beggar’s chance of catching one of the birds; all the silly, latrating dogs thus showed off.

1931, Harry Kemp, Love Among the Cape Enders, page 91:

With everything boiling over; with everyone rapping, yakking or latrating, it would restore dignity to a number of America’s newspapers if the objectivity of their reporting would harden in direct proportion to the subjectivity of the story being reported.

1972, Max Wylie, 400 Miles from Harlem: Courts, Crime, and Correction, page 201:


golden jackal

Canis aureus, a common jackal that can be found in southwest Europe, the Middle East and South Asia.


gerenuk

Unaccountably, he finds himself thinking of gerenuks and gazelles.

1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 139:

A type of long-necked gazelle, Litocranius walleri, native to central and eastern Africa.


mountain gorilla

en-noun

mountain gorilla (plural mountain gorillas)

A subspecies of the eastern gorilla, Gorilla beringei beringei.


eastern gorilla

eastern gorilla (plural eastern gorillas)

Gorilla beringei
Gorilla beringei#Translingual

Gorilla beringei, one of the two extant gorilla species, originally considered to be a subspecies.


harp seal

From harp + seal. So called because it has black harp- or wishbone-shaped markings on its back.

Pagophilus groenlandicus
Pagophilus groenlandicus#Translingual

One of species Pagophilus groenlandicus, a true seal (or earless seal) found in the northernmost Atlantic Ocean and adjacent parts of the Arctic Ocean.


Mexican wolf

A rare subspecies of grey wolf, Canis lupus baileyi


sloth bear

More people in India are killed by sloth bears than by tigers.

2002, Andrew M. McDearmid, Heart of a Hunter: Big Game Hunting, page 145:

As in other species of wild bears, sloth bears are most likely to die young, especially during the first few months after they have left their mothers.

2002, Bernard Stonehouse, A Visual Introduction to Bears, page 31:

Sloth bear attacks are in no way a thing of the past. In recent years, Sri Lankan wildlife expert Shyamala Ratnayeke has surveyed close to three hundred of her countrymen who have encountered and, in some cases, been injured by sloth bears.

2007, Bernd Brunner, Bears: A Brief History, page 134:

Melursus ursinus
Melursus ursinus#Translingual

A nocturnal bear, Melursus ursinus, native to South Asia.


giant forest hog

giant forest hog (plural giant forest hogs)

Hylochoerus meinertzhageni
Hylochoerus meinertzhageni#Translingual

Hylochoerus meinertzhageni, a large pig living in the jungles of West and Central Africa.


blue wildebeest

blue wildebeest (plural blue wildebeest)

A large ungulate mammal of the bovid family and one of two species of wildebeest, (Connochaetes taurinus)


basenji

Dogs – records from 137 cases were reviewed. The majority were male, with breeds including basenji, boerboel, German shepherd, labrador retriever, local, maltese and pitbull.

2024, Steven Kakooza, Wilfred Eneku, Esther Nabatta, Eddie M Wampande, Paul Ssajjakambwe, et al., “Integrating multi-wet laboratory diagnostics to study staphylococci in animals in Uganda”, in BMC Microbiology, volume 24, →DOI, page 7:


seadog

(uncommon) A white-topped wave in an estuary.


Chinese desert cat

Chinese desert cat (plural Chinese desert cats)

Chinese mountain cat
Chinese mountain cat#English


Chinese mountain cat

Chinese mountain cat (plural Chinese mountain cats)

(zoology) A small wild cat, Felis bieti, living in western China.


common seal

Phoca vitulina
Phoca vitulina#Translingual

Phoca vitulina, a seal living in the northern Atlantic and Pacific oceans.


serow

From Lepcha ᰠᰶᰛᰨ (să-ro, “long-haired Tibetan goat”).

uder

The peninsula is home to an estimated four hundred macaques, the world's most northerly colony of wild monkeys, and a growing population of red-haired, goat-like serow, both of which are a protected species.

1999, Jan Dodd, Simon Richmond, The Rough Guide to Japan, page 265:

The serow differs in being larger, at least 32 inches (81 cm) tall, whereas gorals are never more than 28 inches (71 cm). Serows are also distinguished in having small face glands that give out a duikerlike odor.

2002, Maurice Burton, Robert Burton, International Wildlife Encyclopedia, page 2323:

Where official protection is accorded, it is usually on paper only, as the serow is hunted for meat and its body parts, which are used in local medicine. (For example, it is believed that the broth obtained by boiling a serow head is a remedy for arthritis.)

2011, John P. Rafferty, editor, Grazers, page 147:

Any of several species of Asian ungulates of the genus Capricornis.

серау

any of several species of Asian ungulates of the genus Capricornis


muntjac

LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-muntjac.wav

From Dutch muntjak, from Sundanese mencek (“small deer”).

Any of various species of east Asian deer of the genus Muntiacus, having short antlers and a barking call.


moonrat

From moon + rat, a calque of Malay tikus balan (tikus (“rat”) + bulan (“moon”)).

Incidental observations on moonrats Echinosorex gymnurus in Malaysia suggests that this species is uncommon everywhere but does occur in low numbers in logged^((1-12:51)) forest in peninsular Malaysia (Johns 1989a).

1997, Andrew Grieser Johns, Timber Production and Biodiversity Conservation in Tropical Rain Forests, page 87:

The smell of rotting onions, stale sweat, or ammonia may indicate the presence of a moonrat, which produces a strong scent from two glands near the anus. The animal uses this powerful odor to mark its territory. A solitary creature, the moonrat will emit hiss-puffs and low roars if it encounters another member of its species.

2004, Fred Cooke, The Encyclopedia of Animals: A Complete Visual Guide, page 86:

Moonrats are a lowland forest species which feed primarily on worms and arthropods.

2005, E. Meijaard, editor, Life After Logging, page 82:

A gymnure, especially the greater gymnure, Echinosorex gymnura.


gymnure

From New Latin Gymnura, former genus name, from Ancient Greek γυμνός (gumnós, “naked”) + οὐρά (ourá, “tail”).

Unlike hedgehogs, all gymnures produce a strong ammoniac smell reminiscent of rotten garlic, the better to establish territories and to deter enemies when frightened.

2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 50:

A carnivorous mammal, subfamily Galericinae, related to the hedgehogs and resembling a large rat, which inhabits various parts of south-east Asia.


pipistrelle

From French pipistrelle, from Italian pipistrello (“bat”), variant of vipistrello, from Latin vespertilio.

Any of various species of bats of the genus Pipistrellus.


campagnol

Borrowed from French campagnol (“vole”), from campagne (“field”).

The dormice are distinguished from the campagnols by the superior softness of the fur, and the greater length of the tail.

1819, The Edinburgh magazine and literary miscellany, volume 83, page 505:

(archaic) A vole (US, Canada: field mouse), Microtus agrestis that often does great damage in fields and gardens by feeding on roots and seeds.


coonhound

(countable) Any of several American breeds of dog originally used in hunting raccoons.


show jumping

An equestrian event in which a rider's horse is jumped over an array of obstacles.

障害飛越競技

しょうがいひえつきょうぎ


show jumper

(equestrianism) A (human or horse) participant in show jumping


lamoid

A member of the South American camelid family, a llama, alpaca, vicuna, or guanaco.


Australian cattle dog

en-noun

Australian cattle dog (plural Australian cattle dogs)

A breed of herding dog bred in Australia for controlling cattle; varieties include the Queensland heeler, blue heeler and red heeler.


red slender loris

red slender loris (plural red slender lorises)

Loris tardigradus, a species of slender lorises.


night-bat

there were found divers populous nations, in farre differing climates, that lived upon them; made provision of them, and carefully fed them; as also of grasse-hoppers, pissemires, lizards, and night-bats [translating chauvessouriz].

(now only Caribbean) A (night-flying) bat.


hunting whip

A whip with a hooked horn handle (that can be used for opening gates), a short shaft or stock, and a long leather thong with a silk or cord lash.


headcollar

A bitless headpiece for leading or tying up a horse.


lungeing cavesson

lungeing cavesson (plural lungeing cavessons)

a special type of halter or headcollar with extra rings on the noseband for attaching a lunge line (or rein)


winkers

blocked leather eye shields attached to a (usually) harness bridle for horses, to prevent them from seeing backwards, and partially sideways; blinders in (USA).

a fleece cover wrapped around the cheek strap of a racing bridle to limit the rear vision of racehorses.


bug boy

From the "bug" (asterisk) used to denote their weight allowance.


longe line

(US) A rope-like piece of equipment, usually 20 meters or longer in length, attached to the bridle, longeing cavesson, or halter of a horse to provide control while longeing.


cavesson

From French caveçon, from Italian cavezzone, capezzone, augmentative of cavezza, probably from Latin caput (“head”), although derivation from Germanic has also been suggested; compare Old English cæfl (“bit, muzzle”).

A part of a horse's bridle that consists of a headstall with a noseband. When a martingale is used, it is attached to the horse's head at the cavesson.


badgerer

All other persons rejoice at his being exposed: the Ministerial people, because they get rid of a sturdy badgerer ; and the Radicals, because they saw in him a deceptious friend.

1826, William Cobbett, Cobbett's Weekly Register, page 587:

Since you've bought this book and intend to make a will, I won't badger you with dire warnings about what would happen if you die without a will. (Anyway, I've never been an effective badgerer.)

2006, Denis Clifford, Quick & Legal Will Book, Nolo, →ISBN, page 6:


Shih Tzu

ja-r

シーズー (shīzū)

→ Japanese: シーズー (shīzū)

From the Wade–Giles romanisation shih¹-tzŭ⁵ of Mandarin 獅子 /狮子 (shīzi, “lion”), a contraction of 獅子狗 /狮子狗 (shīzigǒu, literally “lion dog”), from the breed's resemblance to Chinese guardian lion statues. The original Mandarin word now refers only to the Pekingese, while this breed now properly goes by the name 西施犬 (xīshīquǎn, literally “Xi Shi dog”).

In their native land the Pekinese dogs are known as "Shih-Tzu-Kom," which means the "Lion-Dog."

[1904, Herbert Compton, The Twentieth Century Dog: Compiled from the Contributions of over Five Hundred Experts, volume I (Non-sporting), London: G. Richards, →OCLC, page 263:

In New York, I had the great pleasure of meeting Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Morgan who showed me their dogs from Pekin. Mr. Morgan has written several articles on Lhasa Apso and Shih Tzu.

1937 January–June, The American Kennel Gazette, volume 54, part 1, New York, N.Y.: American Kennel Club, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 166:

The Shih Tzu (pronounced Sheed-zoo) has a long, dense, wavy coat that completely hides its legs. Its name means "little lion" in Chinese. Descriptions include "very active, lively and alert, with a distinctly arrogant carriage"; […] Behavior problems may include irritable snapping and touch-shyness, especially when hot. A Shih Tzu may be hard to housebreak.

1983, Daniel F. Tortora, “The Toy Dogs”, in The Right Dog for You, 1st Fireside edition, New York, N.Y.: Fireside, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 162:

A plucked and stripped terrier, a properly brushed Shih Tzu, or a Standard Poodle in a continental clip with powdered pompoms will turn heads on any sidewalk as well as in the show ring.

1998, Jane Stern, Michael Stern, “The Beauty of the Beast”, in Dog Eat Dog: A Very Human Book about Dogs and Dog Shows, 1st Fireside edition, New York, N.Y.: Fireside, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 155:

"And who is your baby?" he asked Jane. / "Stuart Little," she said. "He's a shih tzu." / "We love shih tzus," Uncle Bob said. "Let me show you all the fun things we have for Stuart."

2014 November, Elaine Viets, chapter 6, in A Dog Gone Murder: Josie Marcus, Mystery Shopper (An Obsidian Mystery), Obsidian, Penguin Group, →ISBN, page 37:

Shih Tzu tend to get along better with other Shih Tzu than other breeds. Maybe it's because they are not threatened by dogs that are around the same size or maybe each dog can sense that the other is part of the same dog family.

2014, Jon Han, “Your Chosen Breed: The Shih Tzu”, in The Complete Guide to the Shih Tzu, [United Kingdom?]: For Dogs Sake, →ISBN, page 33:

She came home from the animal shelter with a shih tzu. He still thinks she did that just to spite him, her way of getting in the last word. […] Yaz is a good dog, and Joe is man enough to be seen out in Charlestown walking a shih tzu. As long as Rosie doesn't dress the pooch in one of those friggin' sweaters.

2015, Lisa Genova, chapter 2, in Inside the O’Briens: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Gallery Books, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 11:

A small dog breed which originated in China; a dog of that breed.

Chinese guardian lion
Shih Tzu
Shih Tzu#Etymology
Valletta Waterfront
Xi Shi


bridoon

From French bridon, from bride (“bridle”).

A type of snaffle bit, with small rings, usually used on a double bridle in conjunction with a curb bit.


lungeing rein

A piece of cotton or nylon webbing, usually around 25mm wide by about 20 metres (or longer) in length, attached with a swivel to the bridle, lungeing cavesson, or headcollar of a horse to provide control while exercising or training it.


cynegetic

en-adj

cynegetic (comparative more cynegetic, superlative most cynegetic)

more cynegetic (comparative)
most cynegetic (superlative)

/ˌsɪniːˈd͡ʒɛtɪk/

PIE word
 *ḱwṓ
Borrowed from Greek κυνηγετικός (kynigetikós, “of or relating to hunting”). Κυνηγετικός (Kynigetikós) is inherited from Ancient Greek κῠνηγετῐκός (kŭnēgetĭkós), from κυνηγέτης (kunēgétēs, “hunter”) + -ῐκός (-ĭkós, suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives); and κυνηγέτης (kunēgétēs) from κύων (kúōn, “dog”) (from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ (“dog”)) + ἡγέτης (hēgétēs, “leader”) (ultimately from ἡγέομαι (hēgéomai, “to lead”), possibly from ᾰ̓́γω (ắgō, “to guide; to lead”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- (“to drive”) or *seh₂g- (“to seek out”)).

ref

From the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

bor

Hail Oppian, prime of cynegetic race, / From Maro [i.e., Virgil] dovvn to him vvho ſounds the Chace: […]

1763, James Elphinston, “Book the Third”, in Education, in Four Books, London: […] P[aul] Vaillant, […]; W[illiam] Owen, […]; and J. Richardson, […], →OCLC, page 88, lines 430–431:

Give me the hippic—the philippic taste, / All else a wilderness, and man a waste; / Give me the turf, and cynegetic sport, / The zeal, the jealousy, and zest of court; […]

1836, The Tribunal of Manners, a Satyricon, London: J[ames] Ridgway and Sons, […], →OCLC, page 58:

The Roman authors, especially the cynegetic poets, have given descriptions of the different British dogs; the Scotch terrier is accurately described by Oppian; and Irish wolf dogs were brought to Rome about the fourth century.

1836 November 9, John Scouler, “Remarks on the Natural History of the Fossil Elk”, in Journal of the Geological Society of Dublin, volume I, number [III], Dublin: […] P[hilip] Dixon Hardy [for the Geological Society of Dublin], […], published 1838, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 200:

But as there are no lions, wolves, nor wild boars in Great Britain, he [the poet James Thomson] admonishes the British youth to indulge their cynegetic propensities in the fox-chase, which he describes con amore [with love].

1838, William H[amilton] Drummond, “Man’s Right to Hunting and Fishing”, in The Rights of Animals, and Man’s Obligation to Treat Them with Humanity, London: John Mardon, […]; Smallfield and Son, and Green, […]; Dublin: Hodges and Smith, →OCLC, page 36:

"Come, Diana [a dog]," said he; "come, my girl! thou whose destiny will be marked in the cynegetic annals; […] thou who art rushing into interplanetary space, and wilt perhaps be the Eve of all Selenite dogs! come, Diana, come here."

1873, Jules Verne, “Round the Moon: A Sequel to From the Earth to the Moon. Chapter III. Their Place of Shelter.”, in Louis Mercier [i.e., Lewis Page Mercier], Eleanor E[lizabeth] King, transl., From the Earth to the Moon, Direct in Ninety-seven Hours and Twenty Minutes: And a Trip Round It. […], New York, N.Y.: Scribner, Armstrong & Company, published 1874, →OCLC, page 170:

The cynegetic life is authentic because it is close to the philosophical center of human life. It constantly contrasts two central mysteries: the nature of the animal and of death. These are brought together in hunting.

1973, Paul Shepard, “Hunting as a Way of Life”, in The Tender Carnivore and the Sacred Game, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →ISBN, page 259:

In the Sophist, Plato emphasizes the fact that hunting cannot be reduced to tracking wild animals. Among the different branches of the cynegetic art there is also an art of manhunting, which is in turn subdivided into several categories: "Let us define piracy, manstealing, tyranny, the whole military art, by one name, as hunting with violence."

2012, Grégoire Chamayou, “The Hunt for Bipedal Cattle”, in Steven Rendall, transl., Manhunts: A Philosophical History, Princeton, N.J.; Woodstock, Oxfordshire: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 5:

(hunting, rare) Of or relating to hunting (especially with dogs).


dwarf sperm whale

en-noun

dwarf sperm whale (plural dwarf sperm whales)

Any of the small whales of the sperm whale superfamily, in species Kogia sima.


pygmy sperm whale

pygmy sperm whale (plural pygmy sperm whales)

One of the two small whales in the sperm whale superfamily (Kogia breviceps).


reindeer games

/ˈɹeɪndɪə ˌɡeɪmz/

From the song “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” (1949) by the American songwriter Johnny Marks (1909–1985): “All of the other reindeer / Used to laugh and call him names. / They never let poor Rudolph / Join in any reindeer games.”

The natives are a primitive but gregarious lot. They invited me to join them in their reindeer games, which I did.

1984, Joseph Dougherty, Digby: A Play, New York, N.Y.: Dramatists Play Service, published 1986, →OCLC, page 68:

Transfer to Washington. Transfer to Jefferson. No one at Westerburg's going to let you play their reindeer games.

1989, Daniel Waters, Heathers, spoken by Heather Chandler (Kim Walker):

His unhappiness was not due solely to the ravages of adolescence, the eccentricities of his family, exclusion from his peers' reindeer games, or even by living in the embodiment of Thornton Wilder's Our Town. It was all of those things and none of them.

2002, Terry J. Kunkel, “An Older Reflection”, in Is Wanting Enough? […], Lincoln, Neb.: Writers Club Press, iUniverse, →ISBN, part I (Lighting the Race Point Luminaria on Cape Cod), page 40:

It's tough being different in a society where conformity is so very important. Not the type of different that caused you to be picked on by the big kids in grade school because you wore glasses or didn't join the reindeer games, but the type of different that caused you to listen up in class and always do your homework.

2003 October 27, Tim Dannelly, “The Top, Home of the Lonely Brave”, in Living the American Dream, [Bloomington, Ind.]: 1stbooks, →ISBN:

When socializing it's important that you never talk business unless they bring it up. If you do, you'll find out quickly that you're no longer invited to any of the really good reindeer games. Rather, be a good listener.

2006, Christopher Duncan, “Managing Your Management”, in Dominic Shakeshaft, editor, The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World (The Expert’s Voice), 2nd edition, Berkeley, Calif.: Apress, →ISBN, part II (Guerilla Tactics for Front-line Programmers), page 171:

Some fighter pilot traditions have taken on the air of reindeer games—they are nothing more than something one has to be a fighter pilot to understand.

2007, Jonathan C. Dowty, “Fighter Pilot Traditions”, in Christian Fighter Pilot is Not an Oxymoron, [U.S.A.?]: [Jonathan C. Dowty], →ISBN, part 1 (Fighter Pilot Foundations), page 23:

He found all the faddishness of what restaurant or club was in, much less what designer clothes one wore or food one ate, to be depressingly shallow and frantic. In his own private protest, he had long since consciously decided not to play their reindeer games.

2009 April, Robert Asprin, “Prologue”, in Dragons Luck, New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN:

In my mind I had won. Lyndon was with me and not with Hope so whether the two of them shut me out of their reindeer games or included me, it didn't matter one iota to me.

2014, Latonya D. Young, “The Promise of Forever”, in Secrets in Love, [Morrisville, N.C.]: Lulu Publishing, →ISBN, page 86:

I know reindeer games, and this chick is playing them.

2015, John Hornor Jacobs, chapter 9, in The Conformity (The Twelve-fingered Boy Trilogy; 3), Minneapolis, Minn.: Carolrhoda Lab, Lerner Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 55:

(US, informal) Activities which exclude outsiders.

Johnny Marks
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer


apekind

Humankind has been brought to its knees by a global virus, and genetically enhanced apekind has built its own utopian eco-community in the forests outside San Francisco.

2014 July 1, Steve Rose, “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: a primate scream - first look review”, in The Guardian:


breeching

breeching (countable and uncountable, plural breechings)

/bɹiːt͡ʃiːŋ/

(nautical) A rope used to secure a cannon.

Beside this, he has to learn to wear a collar, a crupper, and a breeching, and to stand still whilst they are put on; then to have a cart or a chaise fixed behind him, so that he cannot walk or trot without dragging it after him: and he must go fast or slow, just as his driver wishes.

[1877], Anna Sewell, “My Breaking In”, in Black Beauty: […], London: Jarrold and Sons, […], →OCLC, part I, pages 16–17:

(equestrianism) A component of horse harness or tack, enabling the horse to hold back a vehicle.


Katahdin

From Abenaki Ktaden, Ktaaden (“great mountain”), from kta-, gita- (“great”) (compare Penobscot kta- (“great”)) + aden (“mountain”) (whence also monadnock). Cognate to Penobscot Ktàtən.


Texel

A domestic sheep of a heavily-muscled breed originally from the island of Texel.


Ashvamedha

Borrowed from Sanskrit अश्वमेध (áśva-medhá, “horse-sacrifice”), an oxytonic tatpuruṣa compound of अश्व (áśva, “horse”) and मेध (médha, “animal sacrifice”).

A peculiar verse in the Yajurvedic Ashvamedha tells us that in the sacrifices that were performed by the devas, Agni was the horse, and he conquered the earth (23/17). The idea of using the Ashvamedha horse for extending the rule to the neighbouring territories arose from this.

1996, Jayant Gadkari, Society and Religion: From Rugveda to Puranas, page 32:

(Hinduism) One of the most important Vedic sacrificial rituals related to kings, and name of the Rigvedic hymns 1.162-163 which deal with horse sacrifice.


coonskin cap

Look out kid
It's somethin' you did
God knows when
But you're doin' it again
You better duck down the alley way
Lookin' for a new frien'
The man in the coon-skin cap
In the big pen
Wants eleven dollar bills
You only got ten.

1965, Bob Dylan, Subterranean Homesick Blues:

(chiefly US) Headwear made from the pelt of a raccoon with the tail hanging in back, often associated with the iconic imagery of such American frontiersmen as Davy Crockett.


huemul

Another icon inhabiting these mountains is the huemul, or Andean deer, which shares the Chilean coat of arms with the condor.

2000, Michael Bright, Wild South America, BBC Worldwide, published 2000, page 52:

A yellowish-brown deer of the genus Hippocamelus, of South America; the two species are endangered.


Galloway

From Scottish Gaelic (eadar na) Gall-Ghàidhealaibh (literally “(among the) foreign Gaels”), a term used for Gaelic-speaking Norse settlers.

A number of places in the United States:

An unincorporated community in Lakefield Township, Saginaw County and Lafayette Township, Gratiot County, Michigan.

A township in Atlantic County, New Jersey.

An unincorporated community in the town of Franzen, Marathon County, Wisconsin.

Yellowhead County
Yellowhead County#English

A locality in Yellowhead County, Alberta, Canada.


bruh

Vietnamese: bủh (eye dialect)

PIE word
 *bʰréh₂tēr
A shortening of brother from African-American Vernacular English

Person 1: I poured canola oil into my car engine!

Person 2: Bruh.

Person 1: I think the word partisan derives from how they parted their hair.

Person 2: Bruh.

(slang) Expressing a feeling that something is an exceptionally stupid or inappropriate thing to think or to do.


marla

From Irish marla, from Middle English marle. Doublet of marl.

Miss Carney handed us out blank paper and marla,
old plasticine with the colours
all rolled together into brown.

1996, Thomas Kinsella, Model School, Inchicore: Collected Poems, 1956-1994, page 229:

As she sits and plays with Damien, she feels her legs start to tremble from the effort. Her knees seem to disappear.
Plasticine legs, she says to Damien. Old marla legs.

1997, Catherine Dunne, In the Beginning, page 107:


quickhatch

From East Cree *ᑸᐦᑾᐦᐋᒉᐤ (*kwiihkwahaacew) (modern Cree ᑮᐦᑿᐦᐋᐦᑫᐤ (kiihkwahaahkew, “wolverine”); compare Ojibwe gwiingwa'aage); assimilated to quick + hatch, omitting the middle syllable present in older forms.


leopard seal

Hydrurga leptonyx
Hydrurga leptonyx#Translingual

A large pinniped mammal (Hydrurga leptonyx) found in the Antarctic.


Radnor

From Radnorshire, former county in Wales. Originally from Old English rēad + ōra (“red bank”).

Radnorshire, a former county of Wales, also known as the County of Radnor.


ramidus

From New Latin ramidus, from Afar ramid (“root”).

The first ramidus fossil found was an upper molar tooth, unearthed in 1992.

1995, Biology Digest - Volume 21, page 83:

Ramidi were in many ways a mix of humans and chimps. Their smallish brains were barely larger than those of a modern chimp. But they held their heads on the top of the vertebral column instead of in front of it; ie, they walked upright. It is likely that ramidus was the ancestor of all subsequent hominid species, including our own.

2006, Henry Kong, A History of the Universe: Volume I: Complexity, page 117:

It is the birthplace of human beings' ancestor Lucy, who lived 3.2 million years ago; an older ancestor, Ardi, who lived 4.4 million years ago; and the even older ramidus who lived 5.8 million years before humans' known written history.

2011, Paulos Milkias, Ethiopia, page xvii:

Ramidus was either an early intermediate hominid or a dead end that faded out without diverging into more species.

2013, Martin Malloy, Evolution in a Nutshell, page 137:

Ardipithecus ramidus
Ardipithecus ramidus#Translingual

(informal) Ellipsis of Ardipithecus ramidus. (an early hominid from the Pliocene)


edentate

an edentate quadruped; an edentate leaf


edentate

Any mammal that has few or no teeth, but especially the anteaters, armadillos, and sloths of the former order Edentata.


cynegetics

PIE word
 *ḱwṓ
From cynegetic + -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum).

affix

(hunting, obsolete) Hunting (especially with dogs).


bubale

From Latin būbalus, from Ancient Greek βούβαλος (boúbalos). Doublet of buffalo and buffle.

Any of several African buffalos of the genus Bubalus.


koulan

Equus hemionus
Equus hemionus#Translingual

A subspecies of onager (Equus hemionus), Equus hemionus kulan.


dinotherium

en-noun

dinotherium (plural dinotheriums or dinotheria)

dinotheriums (plural)
dinotheria (plural)

From translingual Dinotherium, from dino- + -therium.

An extinct animal of large size, with elephant-like tusks curved down from its lower jaw.


stegodont

From the genus name †Stegodon, referring to the shape of the molars: from Ancient Greek στέγη (stégē)/στέγος (stégos, “roof”) and ὀδούς (odoús, “tooth”). Doublet of stegodon.

An extinct relative of the modern elephants; a member of the taxonomic genus †Stegodon.


deinothere

From scientific Latin Deinotherium, Dinotherium (genus names), from Ancient Greek δεινός (deinós, “fearful, terrible”) + θηρίον (thēríon, “wild beast”).

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Over the Miocene the European deinotheres became enormous, some reaching weights of 15 tonnes—making them among the largest land mammals ever to have existed.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 105:

(paleontology) Any of the genus †Deinotherium of large, extinct proboscidean mammals, a relative of modern elephants.


tarbagan

Borrowed from Russian тарбаган (tarbagan), from Southern Altai (Teleut) тарбаган (tarbagan), ultimately from Proto-Mongolic *tarbagan.

One can only guess which rodent was most readily to be found near Lake Issyk-Koul in 1338 but the experience of later epidemics points to the tarbagan or Manchurian marmot, a beguiling squirrel-like creature much hunted for its skin.

1969, Philip Ziegler, The Black Death, Folio Society, published 2007, page 13:

Any of species Marmota sibirica of marmots that live on the steppes of Central Asia.


suid

From the genus name Sus, from Latin sūs (“pig”), + -id.

(zoology) Any of the family Suidae of pigs and related creatures.


suid

en-adj

suid (comparative more suid, superlative most suid)

more suid (comparative)
most suid (superlative)

Owing to the kindness of Mr. M. A. Hinton, I have been able to examine at leisure the large collection of recent Suid skulls in the British Museum.

1928, H. S. Pearson, “Chinese Fossil Suidæ”, in Palæontologica Sinica, series C (Fossil Vertebrates of China), volume 5, footnote 3, page 62:

Table 18.1 shows the results obtained by the Haemagglutination-Inhibition Test on ten suid feeds with the anti-warthog system and the converse anti-bushpig system.

1970, B[ernard] G. F. Weitz, “Methods for Identifying the Blood Meals of Glossina”, in H[ugh] W[addell] Mulligan, editor, The African Trypanosomiases, London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd, →ISBN, page 419:

In a study by Harris and Cerling (2002), isotopic analysis of the enamel of extant and Neogene suids shows that major components of C₄ vegetation (i.e., warm-growing season grasses) were present in extinct suid species from the Turkana Basin deposits of northern Kenya as early as about 7Ma.

2007, A[nna] K[atherine] Behrensmeyer, R[ené] Bobe, Z[eresenay] Alemseged, “Approaches to the analysis of faunal change during the East African Pliocene”, in René Bobe, Zeresenay Alemseged, Anna K. Behrensmeyer, editors, Hominin Environments in the East African Pliocene: An Assessment of the Faunal Evidence, Dordrecht: Springer, →ISBN, page 17, column 1:

Of or relating to the family Suidae of pigs and related creatures.


laika

From Russian ла́йка (lájka, “laika”, literally “barker”).

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Q—The Russians picked a laika to occupy the space capsule. Do you think a dachshund would have been a wiser choice?

1957, The New Yorker, volume 33, page 54:

Indeed, they have been hybridising for a very long time, as is evidenced by the laika, a wolf-like dog that even today accompanies various Siberian peoples.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 287:


viscacha

/vɪˈskɑt͡ʃə/

Borrowed from Spanish vizcacha, from Quechua wisk'acha.

From the tenderness of its covering, it is not, though a stronger and larger animal, so able to bear the severity of winter in the Andes as the Chinchilla, though it is not so decidedly an animal of the plains as the viscacha of Paraguay.

1836, Charles Frederick Partington, “Chinchillidae”, in The British Cyclopæedia of Natural History, page 27:

The guanaco, the viscacha, and the hare of the Pampas, are found in Patagonia.

1837, Conrad Malte-Brun, Jean-Jacques-Nicolas Huot, A System of Universal Geography, page 316:

A guard viscacha watches for predators. This guard sounds an alarm if it spots danger. Then the quick-moving viscachas scramble into their dens in the rocks or burrow into the ground.

2003, Elaine Egbert, Nature in a Nutshell: Daily Devotions for Juniors, page 236:

The Andean cat's prey is small mammals such as the mountain viscacha, which look very much like a common North American cottontail rabbit. Mountain viscachas eat coarse spikegrass that is found near small mountain streams.

2013, James G. Sanderson, Patrick Watson, Small Wild Cats: The Animal Answer Guide, unnumbered page:

Any of the several South American rodents, native to the Andes, of the genera Lagidium and Lagostomus, within family Chinchillidae.

viskatsa

rodents of the genera Lagidium and Lagostomus, within family Chinchillidae

mountain viscacha

Lagidium viscacia or Lagidium ahuacaense


swamp wallaby

A wallaby (Wallabia bicolor), known for its strong odor.


pretty-faced wallaby

en-noun

pretty-faced wallaby (plural pretty-faced wallabies)

A wallaby of species Macropus parryi. endemic to Queensland and northern New South Wales.


agile wallaby

A wallaby, Macropus agilis, of northern Australia.


Barbary ape

Macaca sylvanus
Macaca sylvanus#Translingual

A tailless monkey, Macaca sylvanus, found on Gibraltar and in parts of north Africa


toller

Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever#English

Short for Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever.


Patagonian weasel

Patagonian weasel (plural Patagonian weasels)


mustelid

1998, Vivian Banci, Chapter 5: Wolverine, Thomas E. Kucera, American Marten, Fisher, Lynx, and Wolverine: Survey Methods for Their Detection, Diane Publishing, page 99,
Relative to smaller mustelids, the wolverine has a robust appearance, rather like a small bear.

Mustelid diversity is well reflected in the Neogene fossil record, in spite of the fact that mustelids are among the rarest of fossil carnivores.

1998, Jon A. Baskin, “9: Mustelidae”, in Christine M. Janis, Kathleen M. Scott, Louis L. Jacobs, Gregg F. Gunnell, Mark D. Uhen, editors, Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America: Volume 1, Cambridge University Press, page 169:

The mustelid head has a low, flat skull and short face with small ears and eyes.

2004, Fred Cooke, The Encyclopedia of Animals: A Complete Visual Guide, University of California Press, page 134:

Any carnivorous mammal of the diverse weasel family Mustelidae, which also includes badgers, otters, martens, mink and wolverines.


Himalayan marmot

Himalayan marmot (plural Himalayan marmots)

Marmota himalayana
Marmota himalayana#Translingual

A marmot living on the Himalayan mountains, Marmota himalayana, closely related to the groundhog.


Stoliczka's mountain vole

Stoliczka's mountain vole (plural Stoliczka's mountain voles)

A species of rodent, Alticola stoliczkanus, found in the Himalayan region.


Himalayan shrew

Himalayan shrew (plural Himalayan shrews)

An Asian species of shrew, Soriculus nigrescens.


Himalayan field rat

Himalayan field rat (plural Himalayan field rats)

A rat that lives in the Himalayas and southeast Asia; taxonomic name Rattus nitidus.


Himalayan striped squirrel

Himalayan striped squirrel (plural Himalayan striped squirrels)

Tamiops mcclellandii
Tamiops mcclellandii#Translingual

An Asiatic striped squirrel, Tamiops mcclellandii.


Andean cat

The Andean cat (Leopardus jacobitus) is rarely found below 3000 m (9840 ft) and, in Peru at least, is known to range up to at least 5100 m (16,728 ft).

2008, Mark Carwardine, Animal Records, page 44:

Other precious wild highland species include foxes and tarukas (Andean deer), the mysterious Andean cat and the titi monkey.

2010, Anja Mutic, Kate Armstrong, Paul Smith, Bolivia, Lonely Planet, page 50:

For example, the native woodlands demolished for cash crops such as GMO soybeans in Argentina have a major impact on the habitats of animals such as pumas, jaguars, Andean cats and tapirs, which cannot live outside this particular ecosystem (Robin 2010: 271).

2013, Rob White, “15: Eco-global criminology and the political economy of environmental harm”, in Nigel South, Avi Brisman, editors, Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology, page 253:

Leopardus jacobitus
Leopardus jacobitus#Translingual

A species of cat, Leopardus jacobitus, that lives in the Andes.


ankle-biter

(slang) A small dog, especially a poorly-behaved one.


tree shrew

A small mammal native to the tropical forests of Southeast Asia, resembling the shrew, in order Scandentia.


cairn terrier

A terrier of one of the oldest breeds, originating in the Scottish Highlands.


sooey

Sooey, sooey! Come here, piggy!

For quotations using this term, see Citations:sooey.


cabassou

(obsolete) The southern naked-tailed armadillo, a type of large armadillo native to South America, with five toes and enormous claws (Cabassous unicinctus).


sighthound

Coordinate term: scent hound

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


gazehound

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

Coordinate term: scent hound

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

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

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

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

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


yellow dog

Carolina dogs were called yellow dogs because many had yellow coats. The fact that many mongrel dogs also had yellow coats lead to the term's application to any worthless item or person. For the etymology of the term Yellow Dog Democrat, see that entry.

What led Rick Perry to pronounce the Yellow Dogs dead?

2011, William Earl Maxwell, Ernest Crain, Adolfo Santos, Texas Politics Today: 2011-2012 Edition, page 125:

Yellow Dog Democrat
Yellow Dog Democrat#English

(US politics, uncommon) Short for Yellow Dog Democrat.

Yellow Dog

Carolina dog; Yellow Dog Democrat; especially the senses and


skunk ape

(US, cryptozoology) A hominid creature said to inhabit the Southeastern United States.


patas

When a male patas observes a predator approaching its group, he performs a noisy display, shaking the branches and overtly calling attention to himself.

1999, Robert W. Sussman, The Biological Basis of Human Behavior, →ISBN, page 173:

Erythrocebus patas
Erythrocebus patas#Translingual

A ground-dwelling long-tailed monkey of species Erythrocebus patas, found in West and East Africa.


bearcat

Arctictis binturong
Arctictis binturong#Translingual

Any member of diverse species of the order Carnivora:

A binturong (Arctictis binturong, in the family Viverridae).

Ailuropoda melanoleuca
Ailuropoda melanoleuca#Translingual

(obsolete) A giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca, in the family Ursidae).

Ailurus fulgens
Ailurus fulgens#Translingual

(obsolete) A red panda (Ailurus fulgens, in the family Ailuridae).


Laotian rock rat

Laotian rock rat (plural Laotian rock rats)

A rodent species of the Khammouan region of Laos, Laonastes aenigmamus


Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (canonical)

en-au-Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.ogg

"This is a graph of the death rate from infectious disease in this country. The heroes of my field have slain one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. While the heroes of your field gathered in the desert to create a new one."

2015 May 4, Randall Munroe, xkcd (webcomic), Degree-Off:

(biblical) Four beings in Revelation 6:1–8 that bring about the Apocalypse, each embodied as a horseman riding a different-colored horse that represents a different aspect of the Apocalypse.

אַרְבַּעַת פָּרָשֵׁי הָאָפּוֹקָלִיפְּסָה

náhodeesdzáago dįltʼéego łį́į́ʼ bił níjééʼ


cheekpiece

A piece of armour, or the bridle of a horse, that protects the cheek.


yapok

Probably from the Oyapok River in French Guyana.

Yapoks are carnivorous, eating small fish, crabs, crustaceans, insects, and frogs.

1989, John F. Eisenberg, Kent H. Redford, Mammals of the Neotropics, Volume 3: Ecuador, Bolivia, Brazil, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 52:

The water opossum (Chironectes minimus).


water opossum

A marsupial found in Central and South America, Chironectes minimus


fitch

Shortening of fitchew, or directly borrowed from its antecedent, Middle Dutch vitsche (“polecat”). More at fitchew.

The more beautiful of the two comes from a North American species, the black-footed pole-cat (No. 3), which is creamy yellow, sprinkled with black. Made-up skins of this species are sold as "natural fitch" to distinguish them from those of the common fitch, which are generally dyed. The finest skins of this pole-cat, now nearly extinct in Great Britain, are procured from the colder parts of Russia and Siberia.

1914, Herbert Greenhough Smith, The Strand Magazine, page 510:

Not only as it been quite difficult to eliminate the yellow tinge from the dyed fur, but practically every fur dyer has had to admit his inability to make the dyed fitch permanent in color or prevent it from very quickly turning or fading to a sickening shade of red […]

Putorius eversmanni michnoi Kastsch, Transbaikalian steppe fitch. No specimens were collected by the Expedition, but a single skull of an adult male was received from a Russian trapper who secured it during the past[…]

1936, Journal of Mammalogy, volumes 17-18, page 327:

Striped fitch has coarser hair and is not so valuable.

Mustela putorius
Mustela putorius#Translingual

black-footed polecat
black-footed polecat

A polecat, such as the European polecat (Mustela putorius), the striped polecat, steppe polecat, or black-footed polecat of America.


kolinsky

From Russian колинский (kolinskij, literally “from the Kola peninsula”).

bor

Mustela sibirica
Mustela sibirica#Translingual


Siberian weasel

en-noun

Siberian weasel (plural Siberian weasels)

A rust-colored weasel, Mustela sibirica, used for its fur.


false killer whale

false killer whale (plural false killer whales)

From false + killer whale; so called for certain similarities to orcas (killer whales).

A dolphin of species Pseudorca crassidens, the sole species of genus Pseudorca and one of the larger dolphin species.


dziggetai

Borrowed from Mongolian чихтэй (čixtej, “eared”).

The Mongolian wild ass, Equus hemionus hemionus, a subspecies of the onager.


bottlenose dolphin

bottlenose dolphin (plural bottlenose dolphins)

One of the species of gray dolphin in the genus Tursiops, between 2 and 4 meters in length inhabiting warm and temperate seas worldwide.

Tursiops truncatus
Tursiops truncatus#Translingual

(historically) Tursiops truncatus, the common bottlenose dolphin, famous for its presence in aquarium shows.