monkeyess

Here’s monkey Wieland, the youth of Old Drury, / Whose acting alone filled the manager’s purse; / His ma wa’n’t a monkeyess, I can assure ye, / But he certainly must have had one for his nurse. / Dear creatures: we can’t do without one, &c.

1828, “The Monkey; or, Dear Creatures, We Can’t Do Without Them”, in The Universal Songster; or, Museum of Mirth: Forming the Most Complete, Extensive, and Valuable Collection of Ancient and Modern Songs in the English Language: […], volume III, London: […] Jones and Co. […], page 98, column 1:

The gown of the small shopkeeper’s wife may have been made by the dressmaker of the duchess, and the former may be the more ladylike woman of the two; but being without the substance that warrants the show, she is a monkeyess.

1854 December, “Monkeyism”, in Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine, Edinburgh: Sutherland and Knox; […], page 749, column 1:

I say if this theory be correct, and man was originally a monkey and woman a monkeyess, then the job was not such a big thing after all—for any enterprising Yankee could, for a small consideration, have half a dozen generations of mixed varieties running in less than a month manufactured out of our Iowa soil.

1872 January 18, Paddy Miles, “Hygiene and Darwinianism”, in The Weekly Oskaloosa Herald, volume 22, number 19, Oskaloosa, Ia., page [2], column 5:

Darwin’s Monkey.—If Adam’s father was a monkey, / And Eve’s mother a monkeyess; / Then mastiffs firstly sprang from poodles, / A kennel of sprightly yankey doodles; / And that accounts for style and dress.

1873 October 18, J. W. B., “Quaint Home Proverbs”, in Appleton Crescent, volume XXI, number 18, Appleton, Wis., front page, column 8:

Monkeys are the best mimickers, the more civilized and refined imitate them in extracting labial sweetness from the monkeyesses.

1877 November 15, Amicus, “A Leatherwood Melange, Containing Little Sense and Much Nonsense, Wherein Ah Sin Portrays His Beauideal”, in The Pulaski Citizen, volume 19, number 46, Pulaski, Tenn., page [3], column 6:

It is these leaping tree-snakes probably which have given to monkeys their frantic terror at sight of a snake; and if in the anthropoid period any superior monkey and monkeyess had gained a securer place, defended by precipices from quadrupedal beasts, they might still have found one of these Leapers in their simial Eden.

1878 July 20, “African Magnates in London: The King of Bonny and the Liberian Premier Seeing European Civilization”, in The Daily Gazette, volume LXXXVI, number 292, Wilmington, Del., page [3], column 4:

One of the rajahs of India spent 100,000 rupees in the marriage of two monkeys. […] It was twelve days before the monkey and monkeyess were free from their round of gay attentions.

1894 January 3, “Rev. Dr. Talmage; The Brooklyn Divine’s Sunday Sermon. Subject: “The Burning of the Dead.””, in Marion Record, volume 4, number 1, Marion, N.C., page [3], column 3:

Three urchins were feeding a monkey and a monkeyess candy.

1894 June 25, “Found the Lost Link. The Schenley Park Reporter Establishes Mr. Darwin’s Theory. Gusy Like a U. S. Senator. Two Female Human Buzzards and a Juvenile Fox. Odious Comparisons at the Zoo.”, in The Pittsburgh Post, page 2, column 5:

Here is what Charles Dana Gibson, the famous artist, thinks of the American girl: “They are, beyond question, the loveliest of all their sex. Evolution has selected the best things for preservation as the man and woman have climbed up from the monkey and the monkeyess.[…]”

1911 April 3, “American Girls the Most Beautiful”, in The Hattiesburg News, volume XV, number 73, Hattiesburg, Miss., page three:

[…] so after dinner, while the big man was otherwise engaged, O’Praty—who owned a pet monkeyess named Lutchmi—decided to pack her off that night to the temple.

1913, H. Hervey, “The Globe-Trotter”, in The European in India, London: Stanley Paul & Co […], page 93:

The face into which the baby monkey looks is such that one may fancy himself peering through the wrong end of a telescope at some feminine human being. The resemblance is still further emphasized by the whiteness of the little face, its smoothness and the pinkness of the cheeks. The secret of those roses? Rouge! Actually feminine rouge! And daintily pencilled eyebrows! And a beauty spot, scintillant below the coquettish feminine eyes! Talk about the eternal feminine! There it is, continued below—or is it above?—species. Does the monkeyess apply all this feminine beautifying? Here is a secret that in courtesy to the wife of the manager is not betrayed. But every one may do some guessing.

1915 January 17, “Monkey Mother Love. Rouged and Pencilled Little Foster-Parent Fondles Affectionate Baby at Society Circus.”, in The Los Angeles Times, part V, page 16, column 5:

Why should we monkey with the interstital^([sic]) glands of any monkey? What have we to do with foolish young monkey? Or with a monkey that may look, and be, Bolshevik? If it happened to be a decent, settled, middle-aged monkey, with about $100,000 in bonds of the Victory issue, we’d be glad to consider it. But with a fresh young monkey without even a cocoanut in the cache, and his fortune to make, all the while embarrassed by losing time in chasing from tree to tree after giggling and tittering young monkeyesses, not for us.

1921 January 8, “Russian Scientist Has New Scheme for Growing Young: By Grafting Interstitial Glands of Monkey Upon Old People, Dr. Voronoff Says That He Can Restore Feelings of Twenty-one Years of Age”, in St. Louis Saturday Night, volume one, number 34, page 5, column 5:

Somebody had left about a copy of a French romance called “Les Aventures de Polydore Marasquin.” It was of things that happened to a man in a kingdom of monkeys. It went very well, with an occasional use of the dictionary, until I discovered that the gentleman was about to engage himself to a very attractive monkeyess. I gave up the book in disgust, but I have since discovered that there have been lately several imitators of these adventures, which I think were written by an author named Léon Gozlan.

1922, Maurice Francis Egan, “My Boyhood Reading”, in Confessions of a Book-Lover, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, page 13:

[…] man may admit that his grandfathers and grandmothers were mon[keys a]nd monkeyesses if he want^([sic]) to; that is his privilege.

1923 May 17, “ […] Advertiser and Mr. Bryan”, in The Progressive Age, Scottsboro, Ala.: James S. Benson, page [4]:

In a few weeks, Mike sickened and died and not long after Pete followed him on the long trail. Mona plainly showed her sorrow, according to the caretakers; she hasn’t been the same monkeyess since then.

1926 March 27, “Mona’s Mourning Days Are Over; She Cuts Monkey Shines Now”, in Kenosha Evening News, volume XXXII, number 121, Kenosha, Wis., page one, column 6:

Now the white man is a sort of extraordinary white monkey that, by cunning, has learnt lots of semi-magical secrets of the universe, and made himself boss of the show. Imagine a race of big white monkeys got up in fantastic clothes, and able to kill a man by hissing at him ; able to leap through the air in great hops, covering a mile in each leap; able to transmit his thoughts by a moment’s effort of concentration to some great white monkey or monkeyess, a thousand miles away: and you have, from our point of view, something of the picture that the Indian has of us.

1927, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “The Mozo”, in Mornings in Mexico, London: Martin Secker, page 58:

Want to know what the people in Washington call the Capitol? “The Monkey House!” But it’s all in fun for they get considerable out of that monkey house and they do not care to antagonize the head monkies^([sic]) . . . and monkeyesses.

1933 April 13, G. C. T., “Little Stories About Washington”, in Tri-County Press, volume 77, number 23, Polo, Ill., page two, column 2:

“My dear, dear husband,” the monkeyess cried. “Why don’t you ever take me leaping from tree to tree any more?” Hamish, the monkey husband, gave a tremendous grunt. “What are you doing, dear husband?” “I’m trying to evolve.” The monkeyess made a face. “I bet it was that blonde that got over the line just before evolution stopped — I bet you want to be with her.[…]”

1939 February 14, John Rhodes Sturdy, “Under Our Roof”, in The Gazette, volume CLXVIII, number 38, Montreal, Que., page 3, column 2:

Next to a lamentable story concerning the untimely passing of Able, the Kansas-born monkeyess, who had no trouble with outer space but couldn’t survive the tender ministrations of an anesthetist, was another of doubtful “feeling” in our favorite Kansas newspaper.

1959 June 4, “NewsBeaMs”, in Shawnee News-Star, volume 65, number 41, Shawnee, Okla., page 10:

When they entered the monkeys’ meeting, / They both were given a fine greeting. / The man of virtue looked at them. / The emperor then questioned him / About his court – Now did he find / That it was lovely and refined. / To this the honest man returned, / That they were monkeys he discerned. / ‘Of me and of my wife, let’s hear – / And of my son, whom you see here – / What do you think? Now nothing hide!’ / ‘Here’s how it seems,’ the man replied. / ‘You’re monkey and she’s monkeyess – / Ugly, wicked, hideous. As for your son, all folks can see / He’s just a very small monkey.’ / Then to the comrade who was base / The monkey posed the selfsame case: / The same inquiry word for word.

1987, Marie de France, translated by Harriet Spiegel, Fables, Toronto, Ont., Buffalo, N.Y., London: University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 117, lines 27–45:


rabbit bandicoot

en-noun

rabbit bandicoot (plural rabbit bandicoots)


common genet

common genet (countable and uncountable, plural common genets)

Genetta genetta
Genetta genetta#Translingual

Genetta genetta, endemic to subtropical Africa, north Africa, south Africa, and parts of the Arabian peninsula; introduced into southwestern Europe.


rein-back

(equestrianism) The two-beat movement in which a horse is asked to back up. The horse picks up and sets down its feet almost in diagonal pairs, and moves straight backwards with the line of the forelegs following those of the hind legs.


cactus mouse

A rodent of species Peromyscus eremicus, native to desert areas of western North America.


cactus deermouse

cactus deermouse (plural cactus deermice)

Synonym of cactus mouse (Peromyscus eremicus)


latrability

From Latin lātrābilis (“barking, able to bark, characterized by barking”) + English -ity (“forming abstract nouns”). Equivalent to latrate + -ability.

der

But now in the ſecond place, Hylobares, let us ſuppoſe that all the Planets or Earths be inhabited with rational Creatures, yet theſe rational Creatures may be as ſpecifically diſtinct as the Earths or Planets the inhabit, but agree all in Rationality; as the ſundry ſpecies of Dogs here on Earth agree in Latrability.

1668, Franciscus Euistor the Palæopolite [pseudonym; Henry More], “The Third Dialogue”, in Divine Dialogues, Containing Sundry Disquisitions & Instructions Concerning the Attributes of God and His Providence in the World. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Joseph Downing […], published 1713, →OCLC, paragraph XXXIV, page 272:

I do not thereby deny either the Being of Witches, nor other properties that they may have, for which thev may be ſo called: no more than if I deny that a Dog hath rugibility (which is only proper to a Lion) doth it follow that I deny the being of a Dog, or that he hath latrability?

1677, John Webster, chapter I, in The Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft. […] , London: Printed by J[onas] M[oore] […] , →OCLC, pages 10–11:

[…] and therefore if ſome be born Dum, Deaf, or Blind, they are not to be accounted perfect Men. In like manner Latrability in a Dog, Boability in a Cow, or an Ox, Hinnibility in a Horſe, &c. are all Second Properties immediately following internal Senſation, or rather Senſibility in Beaſts, […]

1702, Gideon Harvey, The vanities of philosophy and physick: […] , 3rd edition, London: Printed for A. Roper […] , →OCLC, page 94:

(rare, obsolete, philosophy) The ability or tendency to bark.


rice tenrec

Either of the two species in the Malagasy genus Oryzorictes.


German Wirehaired Pointer

en-noun

German Wirehaired Pointer (plural German Wirehaired Pointers)

A medium to large-sized griffon-type breed of dog developed in the 19th century in Germany for versatile hunting.


common possum

Didelphis virginiana
Didelphis virginiana#Translingual

The Virginia opossum, Didelphis virginiana

Trichosurus vulpecula
Trichosurus vulpecula#Translingual

The common brushtail possum, Trichosurus vulpecula

Pseudocheirus peregrinus
Pseudocheirus peregrinus#Translingual

The common ringtail possum, Pseudocheirus peregrinus


Indian wolf

Canis lupus pallipes, a subspecies of grey wolf that ranges from Southwest Asia to the Indian subcontinent, intermediate in size between the Himalayan wolf and the Arabian wolf, and lacking the luxuriant winter coat of the former.


ursine howler

A kind of howler monkey, Alouatta arctoidea.


Pyrenean desman

Pyrenean desman (plural Pyrenean desmans)

Galemys pyrenaicus, a small semiaquatic mammal related to moles and shrews.


Soft-coated Wheaten Terrier

Soft-coated Wheaten Terrier (plural Soft-coated Wheaten Terriers)

A kind of pure-breed terrier originating from Ireland.


tiger quoll

A carnivorous marsupial, of species Dasyurus maculatus, native to Australia.


meaow

en-verb

meaow (third-person singular simple present meaows, present participle meaowing, simple past and past participle meaowed)

meaows (present singular third-person)
meaowing (participle present)
meaowed (participle past)
meaowed (past)


mastodonian

en-adj

mastodonian (comparative more mastodonian, superlative most mastodonian)

more mastodonian (comparative)
most mastodonian (superlative)

The British parliament is now considering the proposition of a Liverpool ship-builder to build six "mastodonian steamships," to be used for the transportation of troops to distant possessions.

1859, Executive Documents Printed by Order of The House of Representatives during the Second Session of the Thirty-Fifth Congress, 1858-'59, page 503:

These brutes are huge mastodonian animals that tower to an immense height even beside the giant green men and their giant thoats; […]

1919, Edward Rice Burroughs, The Warlord of Mars, page 115:

Since Mother Eve made history by eating too many apples, all peoples in every time have been prone to mark special occasions with Mastodonian meals.

1937 November 14, Lona Gill, “Let's Stop The Holiday Gorging!”, in Los Angeles Times Magazine, page 6:

Of, related to, or characteristic of a mastodon; large; powerful.


Dutch rabbit

A compact breed of rabbit with a distinctive coat having separate lighter and darker portions.


cuberow

From Amharic ቀበሮ (ḳäbäro, “jackal”). Cognate to caberù from the same source.


Cavalier King Charles Spaniel

en-noun

Cavalier King Charles Spaniel (plural Cavalier King Charles Spaniels)

A small breed of spaniel having a flat head, short muzzle, long ears, and long silky coat of various colors.


German Shorthaired Pointer

German Shorthaired Pointer (plural German Shorthaired Pointers)

A breed of gundog of German origin that has a liver or liver and white short coat.


dog breeding

Dogs that compete in dog shows are the result of careful dog breeding.

The practice of mating domestic dogs for profit, typically using selective breeding.


painted hound

Lycaon pictus
Lycaon pictus#Translingual


Caucasian shepherd dog

Caucasian shepherd dog (plural Caucasian shepherd dogs)

However, the director of a circus in the Teltow area told local media he was not aware of any lions being held in circuses or private zoos in the area and said the animal could be a misidentified Caucasian shepherd dog.

2023 July 20, Philip Oltermann, “Lioness believed to be on loose in Berlin”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Caucasian shepherd
Caucasian shepherd#English


pencil fever

(horse racing, slang, obsolete) The situation where punters discover that a horse is almost certain to lose, and so become eager to lay bets against it.


savanna glider

A species of arboreal marsupial, Petaurus ariel, of northern Australia (alternately classified as a subspecies of the sugar glider, Petaurus breviceps ariel).


Gobi argali

Ovis ammon darwini, a subspecies of the argali.


Siberian chipmunk

Siberian chipmunk (plural Siberian chipmunks)

A chipmunk of species Eutamias sibiricus.


common chipmunk

common chipmunk (plural common chipmunks)

Siberian chipmunk
Siberian chipmunk#English

Synonym of Siberian chipmunk (Eutamias sibiricus)


euphractine

Any of the armadillos of the Euphractinae.


jaglion

For instance, the jaguar's optic nerve contains two lion genes, which means a fertile jaglion once existed in the wild.

2022, Jeff Campbell, Glowing Bunnies!?, Lerner Publishing Group, →ISBN:

Maybe he should leave her there until she could hold no and fall to the ground into the jaws of one humongous jaglion.

2021, Tezi Beach, Battle of the Cherubs, Christian Faith Publishing, Incorporated, →ISBN:

Businesses he wants to invest in when Grandma Lorna dies and makes him rich: Jaglion hybrids, ostrich farming to produce eggs with low cholesterol, Nap World where business people can power nap, and rocketry to thrust garbage barges into outer space for quasars and solar flares to fry.

2007, Matthew Limpede, Carve Magazine 2007 Anthology, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 73:

An animal born to a female lion and a male jaguar.


huangana

white-lipped peccary
white-lipped peccary

Tayassu pecari
Tayassu pecari#Translingual

A white-lipped peccary (Tayassu pecari).


chart caller

The chartcallers' routine goes something like this: When the horses come onto the track, chartcallers jot down equipment information -- which runners are wearing blinkers, bandages on their forelegs, special horse shoes. While this is going on, they memorize and match the color of each jockey's silks to his mount's name. Or, as is the case with Feustle and most newer chartcallers, the number on the saddle cloth.

2003 May 16, John Scheinman, “Chartcallers, Setting the Track Record”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-18:

When Jim Bishop was an Equibase chartcaller himself several seasons back, he would sometimes stray from the pre-programmed database comments and get creative with his past performance charts. For sorry horses such as Regal Bishop, he liked to utilize his favorite selfcoined disparity: Appeared to dislike racing.

2007, T. D. Thornton, Not by a Long Shot: A Season at a Hard Luck Horse Track, New York, N.Y.: PublicAffairs, →ISBN, page 42:

The technology has been sufficiently accurate that Equibase has changed its method of charting races at tracks using the system. Historically, the details of every race have been gathered by a chart-caller who watches the action through binoculars and calls out numbers to a partner. Now Trakus produces the charts, though the data still requires oversight and tweaking by Equibase personnel.

2012 February 8, Andrew Beyer, “New racing technology could offer vast amounts of data to handicappers”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-18:

Another, Jamie Zoeller, was a Pavement superfan. He met Nastanovich at a bar in Chicago in the '90s, and Nastanovich told him about his Derby house. Nastanovich (now a chart caller at Prairie Meadows racetrack in Altoona, Iowa) wrote down the address on a bar napkin, and Zoeller carried it around in his wallet until one day he made it, in 1999.

2021 May 1, Melissa Hoppert, “At This Kentucky Derby Party House, Everyone Is ’Like Family’”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-04-28:

(horse racing) A person who is responsible for systemically recording the performance of the racehorses throughout a horse race.


clerk of the course

clerk of the course (plural clerks of the course or clerks of courses)

clerks of the course (plural)
clerks of courses (plural)

(horse racing) An official responsible for track management and raceday preparation at a racecourse.


red-necked wallaby

red-necked wallaby (plural red-necked wallabies)

Notamacropus rufogriseus, a species of wallaby.


Bennett's wallaby

Bennett's wallaby (plural Bennett's wallabies)

From the name of Edward Turner Bennett (1797–1836), English zoologist.

All winter he has been looking for the track, living in caves […] ; for food he has had nothing but Bennett's wallaby, the odd pademelon.

1999, Julia Leigh, The Hunter, Faber & Faber 2012, p. 22

A subspecies of red-necked wallaby, Notamacropus rufogriseus rufogriseus, native to Tasmania and the Bass Strait islands.


angora rabbit

a breed of rabbit, bred for its hair (angora wool)


Celebes crested macaque

Celebes crested macaque (plural Celebes crested macaques)

Macaca nigra, an Old World monkey found on Sulawesi and neighbouring islands.


stick-nest rat

Any of the rodents of the genus Leporillus.


antelope squirrel

antelope squirrel (plural antelope squirrels)

Any of a group of sciurids of the genus Ammospermophilus, found in the desert and dry scrub areas of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.


Bernedoodle

Bernese mountain dog
Bernese mountain dog

A dog that is a cross between a Bernese mountain dog and a poodle.


bnuuy

Popularised during mid-2020; Know Your Meme tracks the usage of the term to an image posted to Reddit on 29 May 2020.

fucking bnuuy who gave you the right to be as cute as your owner [followed by a photograph of a black bunny]

Selen's bnuuy ears just being her wings lmao
Also Enna with the floppy ears is so cute wtf

Bnuuys are cute, people should hug them more

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


Illawarra Shorthorn

Illawarra Shorthorn (plural Illawarra Shorthorns)

An Australian breed of horned, large-framed dairy cattle of a predominantly red colour, with some whites or roans.


wolf-child

Mr. Neilson also adds that a jemidar told him that when he was a lad he remembered going with others to see a wolf-child which had been netted.

1898 January 30, Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, Philadelphia, page 121:

A human child that has been raised by wolves from infancy.


American bully

American bully (plural American bullies)

The Metropolitan police seized 44 American bullies in 2023 up to May, almost three times as many as the next most common breed, Staffordshire bull terrier crossbreeds.

2023 August 16, Jessica Murray, “Perfect pets or dangerous dogs? The sudden, surprising rise of American bully XLs”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

A dog of a modern breed developed in the United States in the 1980s, known for its size, strength, and aggression.


golden lion tamarin

golden lion tamarin (plural golden lion tamarins)

A monkey of species Leontopithecus rosalia.


Temminck's cat

Asiatic golden cat
Asiatic golden cat#English


yellow-necked field mouse

yellow-necked field mouse (plural yellow-necked field mice)


Krefft's glider

Krefft's glider (plural Krefft's gliders)

Named after German-Australian zoologist and paleontologist Gerard Krefft.

(zoology) Petaurus notatus, a species of arboreal nocturnal gliding possum, a type of small marsupial.


greater one-horned rhinoceros

Indian rhinoceros
Indian rhinoceros#English


spectacled porpoise

spectacled porpoise (plural spectacled porpoises)

A species of porpoise, Phocoena dioptrica


trumpet-tailed rat

trumpet-tailed rat (plural trumpet-tailed rats)


Irish water spaniel

Irish water spaniel (plural Irish water spaniels)

A spaniel of the tallest breed, a sturdy, cobby dog native to Ireland, with a densely curled coat of a liver or puce color.


Italian greyhound

Italian greyhound (plural Italian greyhounds)


Italian sighthound

Italian sighthound (plural Italian sighthounds)

Italian greyhound
Italian greyhound#English


Nubian ibex

A desert-dwelling ibex (Capra nubiana) found in mountainous areas of northern and northeast Africa, and the Middle East.


purrito

2016, @cats_of_instagram, Cats on Instagram
Did someone order a purrito?

My cat is mad because: I made her into a purrito.

2020, Heloísa Nora, Reasons My Cat is Mad:

Dad bundled Studmuffin into a purrito with the blue towel, but my familiar had stopped purring.

2023, Maddy Savanna, Witchy Business Mysteries: Books 1-5:

(informal, humorous) A cat wrapped in a blanket or towel etc.


red-tailed squirrel

red-tailed squirrel (plural red-tailed squirrels)

A species of tree squirrel native to Central and South America, Sciurus granatensis.


fawn antechinus

fawn antechinus (plural fawn antechinuses)

A species of dasyurid marsupial, Antechinus bellus, of the Northern Territory, Australia.


brush-tailed phascogale

brush-tailed phascogale (plural brush-tailed phascogales)

A species of arboreal carnivorous dasyurid marsupial, Phascogale tapoatafa, endemic to Australia.


pouched mouse

A species of rodent, Saccostomus campestris, family Nesomyidae, of southern Africa.


strawberry roan

strawberry roan (plural strawberry roans)


silver vixen

(colloquial) An attractive woman who has graying hair.


Andean fox

Synonym of culpeo (“A canid native to the Andes region of South America”)


Tibetan sand fox

Tibetan sand fox (plural Tibetan sand foxes)


bastard fox

One curious mutation, or coat variation, is the one known best as the Samson fox, but sometimes called the burnt, scorched or bastard fox. This animal lacks the long guard hairs and remains throughout its career a woolly, nondescript character without adequate protection from the cold of the winter.

1967, Mammals of pennsylvania, page 188:

A cross between a standard red fox and a silver fox, featuring fur coloration of both.


cross fox

A red fox color morph with dark fur along its face, underside, paws, and tail. Named for the dark cross-shape across its back.


platinum fox

A red fox color morph with mostly white fur, with grey fur across the back and sides of the face.


marble fox

A red fox color morph of mostly white fur with a line of dark fur going down the back and across the face.


Samson fox

From the Biblical story of Samson and the foxes, Judges 15:4–5.

Captive foxes have been selectively bred for other colours, but wild foxes usually appear in only two other variations: a Samson fox is a genetic mutation with no guard hairs, only soft, tightly curled underfur

1997, Nature of foxes : hunters of the shadows, page 29:

A red fox mutation that lacks guard hairs, thus having a wooly appearance.


pampas fox

Lycalopex gymnocercus
Lycalopex gymnocercus#Translingual

A tan-colored South American canid, of species Lycalopex gymnocercus.


Sechuran fox

Lycalopex sechurae, a South American fox.


hoary fox

(rare) the Blanford's fox (Vulpes cana).


white-footed fox

white-footed fox (plural white-footed foxes)

Named for its white socks (limb markings), which in other red foxes is black.

Vulpes vulpes
Vulpes vulpes#Translingual

A subspecies of Vulpes vulpes endemic to India, Pakistan, and surrounding regions.


Manchurian leopard

Manchurian leopard (plural Manchurian leopards)


foxlet

The little fox will grow a big fox, / Provided God will grant him life; / But to release him in the meantime / I think would be foolish indeed. / Two foxes that were but foxlets, as yet, / Quite young little things, / Were captured by chance / By the good Doctor Grumberg / On the Isles of Spitzbergen.

1898, Henri Lachambre, Alexis Machuron, unknown translator, “The Erline Jarl”, in Andrée and His Balloon, Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co, →OCLC, page 143:

It flashed on me that I had come a month / Too late for trapping, that foxlets in the spring / May grow sharp teeth with the passing of a moon . . .

1941, Lew Sarett, “Fox-Heart”, in The Collected Poems of Lew Sarett, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC, section XIII (Lumberjacks and Voyageurs), page 303:

I remember reading while I was pregnant about emotions, and how I would become eloquently compassionate towards all living things, like the mother fox who ushers an orphaned bear cub to her breast with her other tiny foxlets.

2016, Mhairi Mackay, “Accident”, in Secrets and Confessions, Edinburgh: Scottish Book Trust, →ISBN, page 14:


tree fox

Named in reference to its ability to climb trees.

One of the gray fox's nicknames is "tree fox," since it often climbs up leaning trees. It likes to take a nap on the low branches. Gray foxes have been seen in trees eating eggs or young birds out of their nests.

1983, Ahlstrom, Mark E, Schroeder, Howard, The foxes, Mankato, MN: Crestwood House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC:

The Gray fox of North and South America can grow nearly as big as the Red fox. It is also known as the Tree fox because it has the habit of climbing trees. It often sleeps in trees.

1988, O'Toole, Christopher, Stidworthy, John, 1943-, Mammals, New York: Facts on File, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC:

The gray fox has grayish fur on its back. It has reddish, white, and black fur on other parts of its body. It's sometimes called a tree fox. It's the only fox that can climb trees! It climbs to escape enemies.

2013, Zubek, Adeline, Foxes in the dark, New York, NY: Gareth Stevens Pub., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC:


Indian fox

The Indian Fox is a grey-coloured animal, having slender limbs, a blacktipped tail and the back of its ears of the same tone as the head and nape, but never black.

1983, Tikader, B. K, Threatened animals of India, Calcutta: Zoological Survey of India, →LCCN:


beagador

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


curtailed fox

Coined in 1904 by zoologist Daniel Giraud Elliot.

Elliot (1905: 385) provided a common name for Vulpes mutica, the curtailed fox. Elliot was the first to match the specific epithet gender with the generic gender: V. mutica rather than V. muticus.

2011, H. O. Clark, Jr., “The history of arid-land fox discoveries in North America”, in Archives of natural history, Edinburgh University Press, →DOI, page 310:

(rare) A San Joaquin kit fox (Vulpes macrotis mutica).


Anadyr fox

A red fox of subspecies Vulpes vulpes beringiana, endemic to the far east of Russia.


Cypriot fox

The Animal Party on Friday criticised authorities over alleged inaction on the protection of the Cypriot fox, after a member of the species was found dead on a main street in Limassol.

2022 November 11, “Animal Party criticises authorities over inaction on protecting foxes”, in philenews:

A red fox of subspecies Vulpes vulpes indutus, endemic to Cyprus.


Baluchistan fox

Baluchistan fox (plural Baluchistan foxes)

Used by naturalist William Thomas Blanford in 1877.


marsupial mouse

The Surgeon cut me short with a fierce uplift of his beetle brow—and for a dreadful moment I feared two of the many marsupial mice in my cell had leapt up onto his face […].

2011, Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish, Vintage, published 2016, page 137:

(Australia) Any of several small carnivorous marsupials of the family Dasyuridae, especially in the genera Sminthopsis and Antechinus.


Thomas's nectar bat

Thomas's nectar bat (plural Thomas's nectar bats)

Hsunycteris thomasi, a bat of South and Central America.


Dashe's nectar bat

Dashe's nectar bat (plural Dashe's nectar bats)


black bearded saki

black bearded saki (plural black bearded sakis)

Chiropotes satanas, a New World monkey native to the Amazon Rainforest of northeastern Brazil.


bearded saki

Any of a number of species of New World monkeys of the genus Chiropotes, having a tuft of hair that extends from the jaw down to the top of the chest.


Uta Hick's bearded saki

Uta Hick's bearded saki (plural Uta Hick's bearded sakis)

Named in honor of Uta Hick, German primatologist who cared for bearded sakis at the Cologne Zoo.

Chiropotes utahicki, a monkey endemic to Brazil.


greater glider

Any of three species of large gliding marsupials in the genus Petauroides, found in eastern Australia.


Panamanian white-faced capuchin

Panamanian white-faced capuchin (plural Panamanian white-faced capuchins)

Panamanian white-faced capuchins (plural)

Cebus imitator, a medium-sized New World monkey that is native to the forests of Central America.


hamadryas baboon

hamadryas baboon (plural hamadryas baboons)


Malayan tapir

Tapirus indicus, a blackish tapir with a broad white area on the middle part of the body, native to southern Myanmar and Thailand, Malaysia, and Sumatra.


white tiger

A rare Bengal tiger with a white coat and black stripes.


white lion

A rare color mutation of the lion, specifically the Southern African lion, having white fur.


black lemur

Eulemur macaco, a medium-sized lemur that has black, long, tufted ears and thick fur, and is native to Madagascar.


crested porcupine

crested porcupine (plural crested porcupines)

A rodent of species Hystrix cristata, native to Italy, North Africa, and sub-Saharan Africa.


South American coati

South American coati (plural South American coatis)

a coati of species Nasua nasua, native to the tropical and subtropical parts of South America.


pot-bellied pig

pot-bellied pig (plural pot-bellied pigs)


Vietnamese pot-bellied pig

Vietnamese pot-bellied pig (plural Vietnamese pot-bellied pigs)


Kunekune

From Maori kunekune “round, plump” reduplicated from kune “to swell”.

A small, hairy breed of domestic pig that originated in New Zealand.


Sardinian donkey

Sardinian donkey (plural Sardinian donkeys)

An Italian breed of donkey from the Mediterranean island of Sardinia.


miniature donkey

miniature donkey (plural miniature donkeys)

A breed of donkey that is naturally small in size, and native to the Mediterranean islands of Sicily and Sardinia.


Ankole-Watusi

A medium-sized breed of cattle with long, large horns, and originated in Africa.


white-faced capuchin monkey

white-faced capuchin monkey (plural white-faced capuchin monkeys)

Panamanian white-faced capuchin
Panamanian white-faced capuchin#English

Synonym of Panamanian white-faced capuchin.


American Pygmy

American Pygmy (plural American Pygmies)

An American breed of achondroplastic (dwarf) goat.


American pygmy goat

American pygmy goat (plural American pygmy goats)


African pygmy goat

African pygmy goat (plural African pygmy goats)


Cadena's long-tongued bat

Cadena's long-tongued bat (plural Cadena's long-tongued bats)

Hsunycteris cadenai, a kind of bat from Colombia and Ecuador.


Patton's long-tongued bat

Patton's long-tongued bat (plural Patton's long-tongued bats)

Hsunycteris pattoni, a kind of bat from Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.


Rüppell's sand fox

Rüppell's sand fox (plural Rüppell's sand foxes)


Nile fox

A subspecies of red fox found in Egypt; Vulpes vulpes niloticus.


silver-backed fox

silver-backed fox (plural silver-backed foxes)


Pribilof fox

A subspecies of arctic fox endemic to the Pribilof Islands that exhibits predominantly dark fur; Vulpes lagopus pribilofensis.


desert kit fox

desert kit fox (plural desert kit foxes)


African sand fox

African sand fox (plural African sand foxes)


wood fox

Urocyon cinereoargenteus
Urocyon cinereoargenteus#Translingual

Synonym of gray fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus)


African crested porcupine

African crested porcupine (plural African crested porcupines)

crested porcupine
crested porcupine#English


Sechura desert fox

Sechura desert fox (plural Sechura desert foxes)


snowrabbit

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

Second Madam gave a sigh and turned to leave, feeling inexplicably flustered in her heart, jumping around like a snowrabbit.

2019, Ru Yan, The Reborn Vengeful Woman, volume 1:

A rabbit that inhabits regions frequently covered with snow.


Peruvian desert fox

Peruvian desert fox (plural Peruvian desert foxes)


Chiloe fox

After Chiloé, the Chilean island to which the foxes are endemic. The name used by Charles Darwin.

According to this view animals on separate islands ought to become different if kept long enough apart with slightly differing circumstances. Now [e.g.,] Galapagos Tortoises, Mocking birds, Falkland Fox, Chiloe fox, English and Irish Hare.

1837, Charles Darwin, Transmutation of Species: Notebook B:


crab-eating zorro

crab-eating zorro (plural crab-eating zorros)


common zorro

There really is a creature called Cerdocyon thous — the common zorro — but no robotic version of it has ever been created — at least not yet!

1998, Meyer, Marianne, Metal heads : the case of the rival robots, →OCLC:

Cerdocyon thous
Cerdocyon thous#Translingual

Synonym of crab-eating fox (Cerdocyon thous)


short-eared zorro

short-eared zorro (plural short-eared zorros)


small-eared dog

small-eared dog (plural small-eared dogs)


short-eared fox

short-eared fox (plural short-eared foxes)


Falkland fox

Falkland Islands wolf
Falkland Islands wolf#English


Abyssinian fox

Abyssinian fox (plural Abyssinian foxes)


Antarctic wolf

Antarctic wolf (plural Antarctic wolves)


Ezo red fox

A fascination with Hokkaido's wild country first drew the veterinarian to Abashiri, and he is a leading expert on the Ezo red fox. Like much of Hokkaido's wildlife, this fox is not found on Honshu.

1980, National Geographic Society (U.S.), National geographic, →OCLC:

A red fox of subspecies Vulpes vulpes schrencki, endemic to the Japanese and Russian islands in the Sea of Okhotsk.


maned fox

Ostensibly, for its resemblance to a red fox.

The maned fox of Paraguay, which is reddish foxy in color, with legs nearly black, and a patch of white on the lower jaw, and when full grown is five feet long and nearly three feet high[…]

1878 November 9, Chicago Field, November 9, 1878:

Wild animals are numerous and include the jaguar or tigre, puma or leon, many wild-cats, the aguara-guazu or maned fox, which is reddish with a black stripe along the back; gray and red foxes, many weasels,

1909, Chase S. Osborn, The Andean Land (South America):

The large maned fox, “lobo do matto,” “zorro de crin,” “aguará-guazú” (Chrysocyon brachyurus, syn. C. jubatus, pl. 42) is a huge fox (weight, 20 to 30 kg. or 44 to 66 lbs.) with large ears and extremely long legs (height at shoulder, to 90 cm., or 36 inches), and short body and tail. It lives in the bush and forest patches of the plains of southern Guiana-Brazilia (Bolivia and central Brazil to Paraguay and Uruguay), and is a striking animal in form and behavior.

1963, Steward, Julian Haynes, 1902-1972, United States. Interdepartmental Committee on Scientific and Cultural Cooperation, Handbook of South American Indians, →OCLC:


cloud rat

Any of the tribe Phloeomyini of arboreal, nocturnal herbivorous rodents endemic to the cloud forests of the Philippines.


long-eared fox

long-eared fox (plural long-eared foxes)

With these is placed a specimen of the Long-eared Fox of South Africa (Otocyon megalotis), remarkable for its very numerous teeth and its sharp-pointed and long ears ; special interest is attached to it, as it has been considered to represent the original type of canine animal, whence all the wild forms of Dogs and Foxes of the present day have been developed.

1892, British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology, Günther, Albert C. L. G. (Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf), 1830-1914, Guide to the galleries of mammalia (mammalian, osteological, cetacean) in the Department of Zoology of the British Museum (Natural History), →OCLC:

Among the foxes and jackals the puppies of the long eared fox are quite the most delightful. Their teeth are exceedingly sharp and, when feeding them, should be carefully avoided.

1921 February 26, Country Life 1921-02-26: Vol 49 Iss 1260:

With a bit of luck, it is possible to surprise the long-eared fox, also called the "bat-eared fox," spreadeagled in the sun near its den.

1992, Beani, Laura, 1955-, Dessì, Francesco, The African Savannah, →OCLC:

Otocyon megalotis
Otocyon megalotis#Translingual

Synonym of bat-eared fox (Otocyon megalotis)


oo oo aa aa

/ˈʔuːʔuː ˈʔɑːʔɑː/

/ˈʔuʔu ˈʔɑʔɑ/

onomatopoeic

Imitative

Holonyms: monkeyese, monkeyspeak

[He] asked to meet me in front of the monkey cage at the zoo in Jardin des Plantes. I'm standing there waiting, leaning against the fence eating licorice, when I hear behind me, "Oo, oo! Aa, aa!" And wouldn't you know, he's leaping up and down wearing a gorilla mask—and probably a two-thousand-euro Lanvin suit—doing monkey impressions, and he finishes by throwing himself into the bushes. I died laughing! What lunatic would be so elegant and so bananas?

2007, Kirsten Lobe, chapter 7, in French Trysts: Secrets of a Courtesan, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Griffin, St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 91:

The minute I start eating, two lads I can only describe as retards on Prozac started making monkey calls and picking on me. ‘Oo oo aa aa, hey monkey man, want a banana?’ Said one of them.

2011, Eddie Kwadjo Danso, “Living the Life”, in Cockney Zulu, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 78:

"He said he's got a pet monkey!" shouted Bobby. […] "Of course it doesn't talk!" interrupted Suzie Limpten, the class know-it-all. "They make noises, you know, like ooh-ooh, aah-aah!"

2012, Deshka Peneff, “Eric the Parrot”, in Monkey Tales, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, published 15 April 2013, →ISBN, page 17:

Max and Kai had fun and returned to play regularly. Finishing a rally, Max [a monkey] hollered, "Oo-oo, Aa-aa!"

2016, Oliver [Clyde] Chin, edited by Don Menn, The Year of the Monkey: Tales from the Chinese Zodiac = 十二生肖故事系列：猴年的故事 (Tales from the Chinese Zodiac; 11), San Francisco, Calif.: Immedium, →ISBN:

Planet of the Apes by George Racket / Ooh-ooh, aah-aah! Ooh-ooh, aah-aah! / Ooh-ooh, aah-aah! Ooh-ooh, aah-aah! / Ch-ch-ch-chimp, chimp, chimp in outer space / Said goodbye to the human race / The first on Earth to ever escape, / To find his very own personal p-p-p-planet of the apes.

2022, Tom Fletcher, “Track 5: Armstrong”, in Space Band, London: Puffin Books, →ISBN:

"See? There's only the two of us, and your Frankie wouldn't ever let anything happen to you. Okay? Now, eat your banana, little monkey." She nodded at Annabelle's hand. "Go ahead, Anna Banana." Annabelle looked down. […] "Oo-oo-aa-aa," she whispered.

2024, Robin W. Pearson, chapter 1, in Kathryn S. Olson, editor, Dysfunction Junction […], Carol Stream, Ill.: Tyndale House Publishers, →ISBN, page 5:

(onomatopoeia) Used to represent the sound of a monkey's cry.

u u á á

used to represent the sound of a monkey’s cry


she-fox

fixen, This is the name of a ſhee-fox, otherwiſe & more anciently foxin. It is in reproche applyed to a woman whoſe nature and condition is thereby compared to the ſhee-fox.

1605, Richard Verstegen, A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence.:

[…]he was begotten of the Old Dragon, upon a ſhe Fox, or Vixon ; yet for all his Cunning, he was Tryed, found guilty, and Beheaded;[…]

A Lioneſs being upbraided by a She-Fox, that ſhe was not Fruitful, bringing forth but one young at a time; anſwered, 'Tis true, but what I am then delivered of, is a Lion. / Excellence conſists not in Quantity, but Quality.

1689, Philip Ayres, Esq., Mythologia Ethica: or, Three Centuries of Æsopian Fables:


stump-tailed macaque

en-noun

stump-tailed macaque (plural stump-tailed macaques)

Macaca arctoides, a species of macaque that is native to South Asia and Southeast Asia.


northern lion

Panthera leo leo
Panthera leo leo#Translingual

The nominate subspecies of lion, Panthera leo leo, formerly distributed from Morrocco eastwards across Africa above the Sahara through the Middle East to the Indian subcontinent; now restricted to Gir National Park in Gujarat, India.


spotted-tailed quoll

spotted-tailed quoll (plural spotted-tailed quolls)

Spotted-tailed quolls climb well, enabling birds and sugar gliders to be included in their prey.

2024, David Owen, David Pemberton, Tasmanian Devil, Allen & Unwin, page 53:

Synonym of tiger quoll (Dasyurus maculatus)


swamp antechinus

swamp antechinus (plural swamp antechinuses)

Thus the swamp antechinus (Antchinus minimus, ‘smallest hedgehog equivalent’) distributed across Tasmania and coastal Victoria, weighs about 65 grams.

2024, David Owen, David Pemberton, Tasmanian Devil, Allen & Unwin, page 56:

A small shrew-like marsupial, Antechinus minimus, native to Tasmania and small areas of southern mainland Australia.


red-tailed phascogale

red-tailed phascogale (plural red-tailed phascogales)

The red-tailed phascogale (Phascogale calura) survives in Australia's arid centre through an impressive adaptation: it is immune to the poisonous plants upon which it feeds, as are the native carnivores which prey upon it.

2024, David Owen, David Pemberton, Tasmanian Devil, Allen & Unwin, page 57:

A carnivorous marsupial, Phascogale calura, found in Western Australia.


long-tailed planigale

long-tailed planigale (plural long-tailed planigales)

An unusual adaptation is that of the long-tailed planigale (Planigale ingrami), one of the world's smallest mammals (the average male adult weighs 4.2 grams).

A very small mouse-like marsupial, Planigale ingrami, native to floodplains and woodlands of northern Australia.


Colourpoint Persian

Colourpoint Persian (plural Colourpoint Persians)


Himalayan Persian

Himalayan Persian (plural Himalayan Persians)


Himmy

(slang) A Royal Enfield Himalayan motorcycle.


hidden forest chipmunk

hidden forest chipmunk (plural hidden forest chipmunks)


hearst

Uncertain. Perhaps related to Middle English hert (“male or female deer”), whence English hart.

cog

(zoology, hunting) A hind in her second or third year.


yellow baboon

A species of baboon (Papio cynocephalus) with yellowish-brown fur.


snow leopardess

en-noun

snow leopardess (plural snow leopardesses)

Those were minor variations. Beneath them, no one need tell him, was an extremely determined individual. On that distant morning he had thought she had much in common with a snow leopardess, one of his worst similes. He wondered if anyone had tried to tame her since Gerin died. She was not the sort of woman men left alone.

1970, Simon Harvester, Moscow Road, New York, N.Y.: Walker and Company, published 1971, →ISBN, page 86:

The three snow leopardesses were: Natasha, who was 8 years old at the start of the study and was nulliparous; Chuma, who was 8 years old and had had one litter of cubs; and Omaha 6 who was included in the final two years of the behavioural phase of this study.

1993, Journal of Reproduction and Fertility, volume 98, page 92, column 1:

Domi made a feral sound, half growl and half chuckle. She tensed like a snow leopardess preparing to leap on her prey.

1998 March, James Axler [pseudonym; Mark Ellis], Omega Path (Outlanders; 4), Don Mills, Ont.: Gold Eagle Books, Worldwide Library, page 190:


Arabian leopard

Arabian leopard (plural Arabian leopards)

Panthera pardus nimr, a subspecies of small leopard.


Border Leicester

Border Leicester (plural Border Leicesters)

A sheep of a polled, long-wool British breed reared for meat and wool.


Japanese wolf

Canis lupus hodophilax, an extinct subspecies of the grey wolf that was once endemic to the islands of Honshū, Shikoku and Kyūshū in the Japanese archipelago.


Sakhalin wolf

Synonym of Hokkaido wolf (†Canis lupus hattai)


Hokkaido wolf

Any of extinct subspecies †Canis lupus hattai, of grey wolves that once inhabited coastal northeast Asia.


Leopardstown

From Irish Baile na Lobhar, town of the lepers. This later became Leperstown, which was corrupted to Leopardstown, erasing the leper connection.

Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown#English

A southern suburb of Dublin in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, Ireland, well known for its racecourse (Irish grid ref O 2025).


Woodlark cuscus

Woodlark cuscus (plural Woodlark cuscuses)

Phalanger lullulae, a marsupial endemic to Papua New Guinea, specifically on Madau and Woodlark Island.


Targhee

Named after the Targhee National Forest in the U.S.

A sheep of a dual-purpose breed with heavy, medium-quality wool and good meat production characteristics.


mane-comb

A comb used for brushing the mane of a horse.


Alpine goat

A medium to large-sized breed of domestic goat that originated in the French Alps.


ring-tailed coati

ring-tailed coati (plural ring-tailed coatis)

The additions to the Zoological Society's Gardens during past week include a Ring-tailed Coati (Nasua rufa ♂) from South America, presented by Miss K. M. Battam[…]

1884 August 21, Nature, volume XXX, page 397, column 1:

But the parents were gone, and a sudden squeal from the ring-tailed coati hastened Bobby's exit after them.

1894, Phil Robinson, “The Zoo Revisited VII – The Small Cats' House”, in The English Illustrated Magazine, volume XI, page 883:

The ring-tailed coati is found throughout much of South America, reaching the southern limits of its range in northern Argentina and Uruguay.

2017 October 19, Ben T. Hirsch, Matthew E. Gompper, “Causes and consequeces of coati sociality” (chapter 28), in David W. Macdonald, Chris Newman, Lauren A. Harrington, editors, Biology and Conservation of Musteloids, Oxford: OUP Oxford, →DOI, →ISBN, page 516:

A coati species, Nasua nasua, native to South America.


Boer goat

A breed of goat originated in South Africa.


Anglo-Nubian goat

Anglo-Nubian goat (plural Anglo-Nubian goats)

A large breed of long-eared goat originating in the United Kingdom.


Anglo-Nubian

Anglo-Nubian goat
Anglo-Nubian goat#English


black-footed ferret

black-footed ferret (plural black-footed ferrets)

A species of mustelid, Mustela nigripes.


pink river dolphin

pink river dolphin (plural pink river dolphins)

Amazon river dolphin
Amazon river dolphin#English

Inia geoffrensis
Inia geoffrensis#Translingual

An Amazon river dolphin (Inia geoffrensis).


ringtail possum

ringtail possum (plural ringtail possums)

Any possum of the family Pseudocheiridae


crabeater seal

Any of species Lobodon carcinophaga of seals that feed on krill.


black-tailed deer

black-tailed deer (plural black-tailed deers)

A species of deer, Odocoileus hemionus columbianus


Chinese water deer

Chinese water deer (plural Chinese water deer)

A subspecies of water deer, Hydropotes inermis inermis


hopping mouse

Any of various endemic Australian mice of the genus Notomys.


rabbit-rat

Any of three species of rodents of the genus Conilurus, of Australia, New Guinea, and Melville Island, two of which are now extinct.


pseudantechinus

From the genus name, from pseud- + antechinus.

Any of various endemic Australian dasyurid marsupials of the genus Pseudantechinus.


false antechinus

false antechinus (plural false antechinuses)


kortung

Origin unknown; possible from an Indigenous language of Western Australia.


ningaui

From the genus name; arbitrary use of Tiwi nyingawi (literally “short ghosts”).

bor

Any of various endemic Australian dasyurid marsupials of the genus Ningaui.


marsupial mole

Any of the order Notoryctemorphia of blind fossorial marsupials, endemic to desert regions of Australia.


cowkind

From Middle English cowkynde; equivalent to cow + -kind.


perameloid

Any marsupial of the superfamily Perameloidea, including the bandicoots, bilbies, and extinct chaeropodids.


yirratji

A species of bandicoot, Chaeropus yirratji, of arid central Australia.


typical bandicoot

en-noun

typical bandicoot (plural typical bandicoots)

Any marsupial bandicoot of the family Peramelidae.


rabbit-eared bandicoot

rabbit-eared bandicoot (plural rabbit-eared bandicoots)


pygmy possum

Any of various small endemic Australian possums of the family Burramyidae.


feather-tailed glider

feather-tailed glider (plural feather-tailed gliders)

feathertail glider
feathertail glider#English

Alternative form of feathertail glider; an Australian gliding marsupial of the genus Acrobates, family Acrobatidae.


musky rat-kangaroo

musky rat-kangaroo (plural musky rat-kangaroos)

A species of hypsiprymnodontid marsupial, Hypsiprymnodon moschatus, of northeast Queensland; Australia's smallest kangaroo species.


nabarlek

From Gunwinggu na-barlek (“male rock-wallaby”).

bor

A species of rock-wallaby, Petrogale concinna, of northern Australia.


marloo

A term common to several Indigenous languages of eastern Australian, such as Warlpiri marlu.


chudich

A small, nocturnal, carnivorous, marsupial, Dasyurus geoffroyi, of southwest Western Australia.


ampurta

A small, largely nocturnal, marsupial, Dasycercus hilleri, of central Australia.


bobuck

From an Indigenous language of southeastern Australia.

A small, nocturnal, possum, Trichosurus caninus, of southeast Australia.


mundarda

A species of pygmy possum, Cercartetus concinnus, of southern Australia.


burramys

A small pygmy possum, Burramys parvus, of alpine southeast Australia.


tammar wallaby

en-noun

tammar wallaby (plural tammar wallabies)


toolache

An extinct species of marsupial, Macropus greyii (or Notamacropus greyii), of southeastern South Australia and southwestern Victoria.


merrin

From Yari Yari, a Kulinic language of southern Australian.

A species of nailtail wallaby, Onychogalea fraenata, of NSW and Qld, with distinctive bridle-like markings.


swamp rat

The rodent, Rattus lutreolus, of coastal eastern and southern Australia.


Japanese dormouse

Japanese dormouse (plural Japanese dormice)

Glirulus japonicus
Glirulus japonicus#Translingual

Any dormouse of species Glirulus japonicus.


chaeropodid

pig-footed bandicoot
pig-footed bandicoot

Any extinct marsupial in the family †Chaeropodidae; a pig-footed bandicoot.


lagostrophine

Any marsupial of the macropodid subfamily Lagostrophinae.


alphadontid

Any extinct marsupial of the family †Alphadontidae.


caroloameghiniid

Any marsupial of the family Caroloameghiniidae.


sheath-tailed bat

sheath-tailed bat (plural sheath-tailed bats)


foxxo

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

im about to go to sleep but wow even thou foxxo stole my heart wuffle is still cute as all hell

just look at his cute lil Arctic foxy face, he's an innocent lil foxxo!

[See title]

2018 November 9, u/Fatal_Taco, “foxxo is happy with his vv big loaf”, in r/foxes, Reddit:

Hey cutie~ want to take a ride with this foxxo? What better way to show off my new car then doing it with style? Happy #FursuitFriday everyone!

Urban foxxos amuse me.

2023 March 17, u/jklantern, “Yay Foxxo has a snack lol!”, in r/yayfoxxo, Reddit:

(Internet slang or furry fandom, colloquial, usually endearing) A fox.


skinny pig

An almost hairless strain of guinea pig.


time fault

For instance, a refusal was three points, but as it generally took the rider precious seconds to get his horse over the refused fence, a time fault of four points could be expected.

2001, Laura Moore, Ride a Dark Horse, page 286:

If the rider is over the time allowed he or she is penalized 1⁄4 time fault for every second over the limit.

2010, Bradley Berner, Blood on the Irons:

If I went over by a tenth of a second, I got a time fault and some other horse would be the last qualifier for the Grand Prix.

(equestrianism) A penalty given in which a rider does not complete the course in the time allowed that is set by the course designer.


Japanese deer

Japanese deer (plural Japanese deers or Japanese deer)

Japanese deers (plural)
Japanese deer (plural)

Cervus nippon
Cervus nippon#Translingual


Japanese weasel

Japanese weasel (plural Japanese weasels)

Mustela itatsi, a carnivorous mammal native to Japan.


Weddell seal

Named after British sealing captain James Weddell.

A relatively large and abundant true seal, of species Leptonychotes weddellii, with a circumpolar distribution surrounding Antarctica.


Tibetan Terrier

Tibetan Terrier (plural Tibetan Terriers)

A dog of a medium-sized, shaggy breed that originated in Tibet (not a true terrier).


fopsy

From fops (“fox”) + -y (diminutive suffix), perhaps by analogy with foxy.

@swiftfoxfire is a big fopsy and very grownup. I said it, so it's true.

g'night twatter. This fopsy is going to sleep!

Yay! Fopsies are awesome!

2018 February 23, u/Fatal_Taco, “Curled up and snug”, in r/foxes, Reddit:

Da fopsy-wopsy do a heccin spinny-winny OwO

2021 September 6, u/Minute-Mountain7897, “I might have to get this game now”, in r/EverythingFoxes, Reddit:

Oh! I thought that fopsies had at least 5 different dens in any given area!?

(Internet slang, furry fandom, hypocoristic, childish, endearing) Synonym of fops (“a fox”).


Brazilian terrier

Brazilian terrier (plural Brazilian terriers)


wild dog

Any of various undomesticated canids that resemble a domesticated dog.


catch-dog

(US) A hunting dog, especially in boar-hunting, trained to latch onto the quarry.


pig-tailed langur

pig-tailed langur (plural pig-tailed langurs)

Simias concolor, a large Old World monkey with black face, black-brown fur and short tail, endemic to several small islands off the coast of Sumatra.


riding school

An establishment that teaches people how to ride horses.


native tiger

The “Native Tigers” (Thylacinus cynocephalus) are yet more to be dreaded among sheep than the “devils;” but, fortunately, they are far less numerous.

1852, Louisa Anne Meredith, My Home in Tasmania, During a Residence of Nine Years, volume 2, page 264:

Of the carnivora the largest is an animal known as the hyæna, or, native tiger, which grows to the size of a large dog.

1859, William Fairfax, editor, Handbook to Australasia; Being a Brief Historical and Descriptive Account of Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, New South Wales, Western Australia, and New Zealand, page 103:

Upon my first visit to the cavern, my suspicions fell upon the Thylacinus, or native tiger, as the animal most likely to have carried these bones into it.

1886, Samuel Henry Wintle, “The Fossil Mammalian Remains of Tasmania Compared with Those of the Mainland”, in The Victorian Naturalist: The Journal & Magazine of the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, volume 3, number 4, page 40:

Thylacinus cynocephalus
Thylacinus cynocephalus#Translingual

(obsolete) Tasmanian tiger (Thylacinus cynocephalus)


evening bat

A vesper bat, of any of several species, including:

Nycticeius humeralis, a vesper bat of the Eastern US.


short-faced kangaroo

short-faced kangaroo (plural short-faced kangaroos)


servaline genet

servaline genet (plural servaline genets)

a genet species native to Central Africa (Genetta servalina)


Nubian giraffe

Nubian giraffe (plural Nubian giraffes or Nubian giraffe)

Nubian giraffes (plural)
Nubian giraffe (plural)

Giraffa camelopardalis camelopardalis, a subspecies of giraffe found primarily in South Sudan and western Ethiopia.


European early modern human

European early modern human (plural European early modern humans)


purrfectly

en-adv

purrfectly (comparative more purrfectly, superlative most purrfectly)

more purrfectly (comparative)
most purrfectly (superlative)

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An Amurrcan Girl. Father, see up there; there’s Byron. Did you erver see such a purrfectly beautiful face?

1891 January 24, [Thomas Anstey Guthrie], “Voces Populi. At the Guelph Exhibition.”, in Punch, or The London Charivari, volume C, London: […] Bradbury, Agnew, & Co. […], page 40, column 2:

We have heard of a Writer to the Signet who spoke such exceedingly high English that a professional brother bluntly pronounced his conversation to be “purrfectly unintelligible.”

1898 June, “Among the Young Lions”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXIII, number DCCCCXCII, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publication Co., […], page 738, column 2:

“We are purrfectly sober,” said Murphy, as if answering an accusation.

1899, W[illiam] F[ry] Shannon, “A Fight in the Dark”, in The Mess Deck, London: Lawrence and Bullen, Ltd. […], page 185:

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling


seat out

en-verb

seat out (third-person singular simple present seats out, present participle seating out, simple past and past participle seated out)

seats out (present singular third-person)
seating out (participle present)
seated out (participle past)
seated out (past)

(equestrianism, veterinary medicine) To modify a horseshoe to relieve pressure from the sole.


catcentric

en-adj

catcentric (comparative more catcentric, superlative most catcentric)

more catcentric (comparative)
most catcentric (superlative)

The Italian physicist Toraldo di Francia observed: "We might as well recognize the fact that it is biological—and therefore natural—law that mice are mousecentric, cats are catcentric, and men are antrhropocentric.

2003, Leopoldina Fortunati, James E. Katz, Raimonda Riccini, Mediating the Human Body: Technology, Communication, and Fashion, page 21:

Catcentric websites and local newspapers are a good place to starting looking for pet-friendly events in your area.

2014, Sandy Robins, The Original Cat Bible: The Definitive Source for All Things Cat:

The Catcentric Adventure Continues in the All-Ages Follow-up to Best-Selling Novelist Margaret Atwood's Debut Graphic Novel.

2017, Margaret Atwood, Angel Catbird Volume 2: To Castle Catula (Graphic Novel), page 106:

Focused on or from the point of view of cats.


campdrafter

A person who participates in campdrafting.


sheath-tailed mouse

en-noun

sheath-tailed mouse (plural heath-tailed mice)


dummy foal

From dummy + foal, due to their tendency to wander aimlessly.

(veterinary medicine, informal) A foal suffering from neonatal maladjustment syndrome.


collar up

en-verb

collar up (third-person singular simple present collars up, present participle collaring up, simple past and past participle collared up)

collars up (present singular third-person)
collaring up (participle present)
collared up (participle past)
collared up (past)

(transitive, equestrianism) To apply a harness to a horse.


alpine marmot

A marmot of species Marmota marmota, of the mountains of central and southern Europe.


red rock hare

Any of the Southern African lagomorphs of the genus Pronolagus, the basal leporids.


DSH

Initialism of domestic short-hair. (cat)


airplane ears

From the shape of a cat's ears resembling the wings of an airplane.

The folded ears of a cat when it is irritated or angry.


Xalda sheep

Borrowed from Asturian xaldu ("inhabitant of the valleys").

An endangered breed of sheep indigenous to the Asturias province of Northern Spain.


mountain weasel

en-noun

mountain weasel (plural mountain weasels)

Mustela altaica, a weasel of central to eastern Asia.


white-lipped peccary

white-lipped peccary (plural white-lipped peccaries)

Tayassu pecari
Tayassu pecari#Translingual

Tayassu pecari, widespread in much of tropical South America, less so in Central America.


smurgle

en-verb

smurgle (third-person singular simple present smurgles, present participle smurgling, simple past and past participle smurgled)

smurgles (present singular third-person)
smurgling (participle present)
smurgled (participle past)
smurgled (past)

(Internet slang, neologism, transitive, intransitive) Of a cat, to snuggle up to something, while kneading, nuzzling or purring.


FEI

From French Fédération Équestre Internationale (“International Equestrian Federation”).

der

The International Federation for Equestrian Sports.


Asian house shrew

en-noun

Asian house shrew (plural Asian house shrews)

Suncus murinus
Suncus murinus#Translingual


kurdyuk

Study of the blood factors of 345 sheep, including hybrids and backcrosses between the wild O. polii karelini and the New-Caucasian Merino, Prococe, and Kurdyuk, showed that in glutthione concentration, dry residue and specific gravity of the blood, and resistance of erythrocytes to solution the hybrids excelled the purebreds.

1939, United States. Office of Experiment Stations, Experiment Station Record, page 489:


hippie chimp

Due to their generally peaceful behavior.


northern common cuscus

northern common cuscus (plural northern common cuscuses)

Coordinate term: southern common cuscus

Bismarck Archipelago
Bismarck Archipelago

A species of marsupial in the family Phalangeridae native to northern New Guinea and adjacent smaller islands, and also found in the Bismarck Archipelago, southeast and central Moluccas, the Solomon Islands, and Timor.


gray cuscus

northern common cuscus
northern common cuscus#English


southern common cuscus

southern common cuscus (plural southern common cuscuses)

Coordinate term: northern common cuscus

An arboreal marsupial endemic to Australia, southern New Guinea and possibly the Aru Islands.


meezer

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(Sia)mese + -er. This nickname was from the cats' vocal attitude and loud, low-pitched meows.

(endearing, slang, humorous) A Siamese cat.


zebress

“ZEBRESS” COMES TO PARK / The population of the city’s menagerie in Central Park is increasing fast. The increase is due principally to a high birth rate, while yesterday a female zebra, styled by one of the park employes as a “zebress,” arrived from an animal dealer’s place in Germany to become the mate of Paddy, a zebra purchased some months ago. […] The “zebress” is three years old and is a fine specimen.

1913 June 11, New-York Tribune, volume LXXIII, number 24,314, New York, N.Y., page 4, column 1:

The lady now appearing wears a dress of black and white stripes—she might be very properly termed a zebra or zebress—and her sash is of pale, canary silk.

1927, Esther Singleton, “Dolls of To-day”, in Dolls, New York, N.Y.: Payson & Clarke Ltd, page 136:

A male zebra who lives at Livingston park in Jackson longed for love and affection. So lonely did he become that a local hotel sought a mate, presented her to him. Delighted with the selection, zebra and zebress have become friskly,^([sic]) renewed interest in life.

1928 August 2, E. L., “Mississippi Brevities”, in The Lexington Advertiser, volume 91, number 12, Lexington, Miss., page 3, column 2:

zebrass: zebra plus ass—hybrid of zebra and jenny ass or zebress and jackass

1964, Ralph De Sola, Abbreviations Dictionary: Abbreviations, Acronyms, Contractions, Signs & Symbols Defined […], revised edition, New York, N.Y.: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, →LCCN, page 213, column 1:

And the arrows were up and the gangplank down – / And here come the animals afraid to drown! / Through every doorway, entrance and egress, / Come dashing teams, a zebra and zebress, / A tiger and tigress, a gnu and a she-gnu, / A jack and a jenny, a mu and an emu, / A pair of elephants, a brace of rhinoceros, / Two dinosaurus – mostly esophagus, […]

1967, Paul Hiebert, “Jordan Middleduck”, in Willows Revisited, Toronto, Ont.; Montreal, Que.: McClelland and Stewart Limited, page 110:

As Leonie, she obviously loves Morgan, but how can you have a life with a man who keeps seeing you as a gazelle or a lioness or zebress?

1967 January 15, Dick Benke, “Movie Review: ‘Morgan’; Reality, Fantasy Get All Mixed Up”, in Independent Star-News, Pasadena, Calif., page C-8, column 4:

A Grant zebra was acquired to provide sweetness, light, friendship and, possibly, romance for the zoo’s zebress.

1970 March 23, David L. Maulsby, “Zoo’s New Denizens Include An Aoudad (Or Aou-Mom?)”, in The Sun, volume 266, number 45, Baltimore, Md., page C 8, column 1:

“Taking my kid, offspring, heir, bairn in Edinburgh and garcon in Nice to the Washington Zoo today.” “They got everything from A to Z there.” “Aardvarks, acaroids, addax, agouti, alligators, alpaca, antlions, amardillo,^([sic]), aug, auklets, aurochs, areayes …” “He’ll go ape before he gets to the azygous axoloti^([sic]) which as you know is amphibious.” “It’ll be dark, dusk, twilight, eventide before we zero in on the zander, zebra, zebress, zebu, aibet, aoril and zorilla.”

1979 January 19, Hugh Mulligan, “Mulligan’s Stew”, in Evening Express, volume 96, number 82, Portland, Me., page 3, columns 3–4:

A zebress was once introduced to a donkey. / The donkey said darling, I know this sounds funky, / But let’s you and me / Get together; you’ll see / We’ll make us a little zebronkey. / The zebress said cooly,^([sic]) that’s sweet of you, hon, / But we’re species apart, and I really must run.

1983, Jean Morgan, “Crazy Jean Tries a Limerick: On Reading in Darwin of the Zebra Who Refused the Donkey Until He Looked Something Like Her”, in High priestess of Change, Laurinburg, N.C.: St. Andrews Press, →ISBN, page 46:

“You two can start exploring if you like,” I said. “Or wait here in the car. I’m just going to ask her about hosting the garden club buffet.” / “No, let’s beard the lioness in her den,” Dr. Blake said, offering Caroline his arm. / “More like a zebress, don’t you think?” Caroline said.

2009 August, Donna Andrews, Swan for the Money (Meg Langslow Mysteries; 11), New York, N.Y.: Minotaur Books, →ISBN, page 42:

Zebra: I am sooo turned on by your stripes baby! / Zebress: Oh really? Well in that case......... KICK! / Zebra: OW! Let me move on up behind you here. This good for you? / Zebress: KICK! Approach vector too high. Permission to land is DENIED / Zebra: Tower, request permission for fly-by / Zebress: Negative Ghost-Rider, the pattern is full. KICK!

2016, Brian Scott Bowers, “The Passionate Prison, a Zoological Adventure…”, in It’s a Poop Sneeze: From Family Dysfunction & Fast Food Funnies to a “F*cker” in Politics, →ISBN, section 9 (Au Naturale^([sic])), page 152:


free-tailed bat

free-tailed bat (plural free-tailed bats)

Bats of family Molossidae, many species of which are known as mastiff bats.


para-dressage

An adaptation of the sport of dressage for athletes with a physical disability.


marine otter

Lontra felina, an otter of the South American Pacific.


ouppy

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WHOS OUPPY IS THIS

WAKE UP EVENATION!! NEW OUPPY PHOTO JUST DROPPED!!! AND WHY HE EEPY??? 😎😂

2023 December 23, @strawb3rryfemme, Twitter:

being ouppy after A long day Of boymoding

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


kibty

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(Internet slang) Deliberate misspelling of kitty.


yinotherian

Any of the egg-laying mammals of the subclass Yinotheria; a monotreme.


spindlehorn

From spindle + horn, after the appearance of the horns.

Synonym of saola (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis)


ardipith

(anthropology, paleontology) Any of the hominids of the extinct genus Ardipithecus.


ardipith

en-adj

ardipith (comparative more ardipith, superlative most ardipith)

more ardipith (comparative)
most ardipith (superlative)

(anthropology, paleontology) Of or pertaining to the hominids of the extinct genus Ardipithecus.


tree-maker

In making saddles to run and try in, the trees of them are occasionally leaded by the tree-maker or saddler, agreeably to the directions either may receive from his employer; and a four-pound saddle in this way is made to weigh seven pounds.

1828, Richard Darvill (V.S. 7th Hussars.), A Treatise on the Care, Treatment and Training of the English Racehorse, page 219:

This instrument was procured and the Investigating Officer was easily convinced of the accuracy of the wood-carver's statements, and, on the result being communicated to the victim of the theft, the thief was easily found: in fact the last servant whom the banker had dismissed had formerly been a tree maker, and indeed went back to that trade whenever he was out of a place .

1907, Hans Gross, John Adam, John Collyer Adam, Criminal Investigation, page 153:

It takes Hill from a week to at least a month to make a saddle, figuring drying time for the dampened leather and depending on the type of saddle. He starts with the tree, which he acquired from a tree maker.

1985, Oklahoma Today - Volumes 35-36, page 11:

(equestrianism) One who makes or constructs saddle trees.


Siberian ibex

Siberian + ibex. Compare translingual Capra sibirica.


horse show

An event where horses are exhibited and may win prizes in various categories.


nyan-binary

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(Internet slang) Non-binary, in contexts relating to cats.


spiny pocket mouse

en-noun

spiny pocket mouse (plural spiny pocket mice)

Any of the small rodents in the genus Heteromys, the only extant genus in the subfamily Heteromyinae of the family Heteromyidae.

A small rodent in another genus of the Heteromyidae, Chaetodipus spinatus.


crab-eating rat

crab-eating rat (plural crab-eating rats)

Ichthyomys hydrobates, a species of rat found in northern South America.


hoary bamboo rat

hoary bamboo rat (plural hoary bamboo rats)


bay duiker

An antelope of species Cephalophus dorsalis, with a prominent black stripe down the center of its back.


banded pig

Calque of translingual Sus scrofa vittatus.

calque

Sus scrofa vittatus, a subspecies of wild boar found in Southeast Asia.


eighth pole

(horse racing) A pole indicating that the finish line is one eighth of a mile away.


nom de course

(horse racing) A name, usually a pseudonym, used by a racehorse owner under which their horse is registered to compete.


quarter pole

Coordinate term: eighth pole

(horse racing) A pole indicating that the finish line is one quarter of a mile away.


clubhouse turn

When the horses reached the clubhouse turn the sport-shirted man and his housedressed wife and his blue-jeaned son were all on their feet.

1956 July 30, Humphrey S. Finney, “Horse Racing”, in Sports Illustrated, volume 5, number 5, page 40:

(horse racing) The turn to the right of the grandstand.


far turn

(horse racing) The turn off the backstretch into the home stretch (and furthest from the finish line).


circle the field

en-verb

circle the field (third-person singular simple present circles the field, present participle circling the field, simple past and past participle circled the field)

circles the field (present singular third-person)
circling the field (participle present)
circled the field (participle past)
circled the field (past)

(horse racing) To go very wide around other horses in order to move into a winning position.


pinhook

pinhook (third-person singular simple present pinhooks, present participle pinhooking, simple past and past participle pinhooked)

pinhooks (present singular third-person)
pinhooking (participle present)
pinhooked (participle past)
pinhooked (past)

(horse racing) To buy young racehorses in order to resell them later for profit.


blue hen

(horse racing, slang) A mare who benefits a breed by producing many high-quality offspring.


chilihueque

An extinct hypothetical species of camelid; Lama araucana.


tremarctine

Any of the ursids of the subfamily Tremarctinae, including the extant spectacled bear and related extinct species.


post parade

(horse racing) The movement of the horses from the paddock to the starting gate ("post"), past the grandstands.


new shooter

(horse racing, Canada, US) A horse that has skipped the Kentucky Derby to run in the Preakness Stakes or Belmont Stakes.


minus pool

(horse racing, gambling) A pool of money made up (usually by the racing association) to pay the legally required minimum on each winning bet, when there is not enough left in the pari-mutuel pool.


post time

(horse racing) The time of day when a race is scheduled to begin.


hand-ride

hand-ride (third-person singular simple present hand-rides, present participle hand-riding, simple past hand-rode, past participle hand-ridden)

hand-rides (present singular third-person)
hand-riding (participle present)
hand-rode (past)
hand-ridden (participle past)

(horse racing) To urge the horse on with one's hands, without using the whip.


covering horse

That year he earned extra income by keeping a covering horse, which he hired out to a number of local farmers.

...he is now fat and looks as grand as a covering horse.

1911 [1798], Daniel Agnew, edited by Arthur Lowndes, Archives of the General Convention, II: The Correspondence of John Henry Hobart 1798–1801, New York: The Commission on Archives [General Convention of the Episcopal Church], Hobart Correspondence, page 64:

...but if any owner or keeper of a covering horse, shall wilfully or negligently suffer said horse to run at large, out of the inclosed lands of said owner or keeper, any person may take up said horse, and carry him to his owner or keeper, for which he shall receive two dollars...

1886 [1806], Indiana General Assembly, The Laws of the Indiana Territory: 1801–1806, Inclusive, Paoli, Indiana: Throop & Clark, Laws Passed at the Second Session of the First General Assembly of the Indiana Territory, page 51:

33. Sec. V. There shall be annually levied and collected upon all stallions or covering horses, let to mares for hire, a tax equal to the season, or price of one mare let to such stallion or covering horse.

1837 [1807], Oliver H. Prince, A Digest of the Laws of the State of Georgia, Second Edition, volume II, Athens, Georgia: Oliver H. Prince, Tax. 1807, 1808, page 392:

The pedigree of Florizel, on the side of his dam, I have often seen, when he was a covering horse, but have no recollection of it.

1830 December 30 [1827], John Wickham, American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine, volume 2, number 4, Baltimore: J. S. Skinner, Turf Register: Horses Bred by John Wickham, Esq. of Richmond, Va., page 206:

...and I would as soon this day enter it in a stake of from one to five hundred dollars each, as to select from the season of any covering horse, no matter how many mares he had put to him.

1831 February 28 [1830], William R. Johnson, American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine, volume 2, number 6, Baltimore: J. S. Skinner, Timoleon, page 269:

"It is," says the record, "ordered, that there be levied a county revenue for the year A. D. 1830, on each horse, mule or ass over three years old, 31¼ cents; each covering horse, $2; on each work oxen, 15¾ cents; each pleasure carriage, 50 cents; on each brass clock, 50 cents; on each watch, 25 cents...

1881 [1830], David Demaree Banta, A Historical Sketch of Johnson County, Indiana, Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., page 73:

A stud horse; a stallion kept as a stud.


silver-tipped myotis

en-noun

silver-tipped myotis (plural silver-tipped myotises)

Myotis albescens, a species of mouse-eared bat found throughout the northern and eastern regions of South America.


Hausa genet

a genet species native to West Africa (Genetta thierryi)


Oriental dormouse

Oriental dormouse (plural Oriental dormice)

Any the family Platacanthomyidae of rodents, of south Asia, southern China and adjacent Vietnam.


Malagasy rodent

Malagasy rodent (plural Malagasy rodents)

A rodent of the subfamily Nesomyinae native to Madagascar that resembles a mouse, rat, gerbil, or vole.


mouse-like hamster

mouse-like hamster (plural mouse-like hamsters)

A small rodent belonging to the genus Calomyscus.


pouched rat

A rodent native to Africa belonging to the subfamily Cricetomyinae.


pygmy right whale

pygmy right whale (plural pygmy right whales)

A baleen whale of the species Caperea marginata.


West Highland

West Highland White Terrier
West Highland White Terrier#English


feathertail glider

feathertail glider (plural feathertail gliders)

An eastern Australian-native marsupial of the species Acrobates pygmaeus.


feather-tailed possum

feather-tailed possum (plural feather-tailed possums)

An acrobatid marsupial of the species Distoechurus pennatus, native to New Guinea.


pygmy killer whale

pygmy killer whale (plural pygmy killer whales)

An oceanic dolphin of the species Feresa attenuata.


rough-toothed dolphin

rough-toothed dolphin (plural rough-toothed dolphins)

An oceanic dolphin of the species Steno bredanensis.


large-spotted civet

large-spotted civet (plural large-spotted civets)

Viverra megaspila, a large civet native to Southeast Asia.


ringtailed possum

ringtailed possum (plural ringtailed possums)

An Australian marsupial of the family Pseudocheiridae.


wrist-winged glider

wrist-winged glider (plural wrist-winged gliders)

An arboreal Australian possum of the genus Petaurus.


Bolivian river dolphin

head

Bolivian river dolphin (plural Bolivian river dolphins)

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


Garrison finish

en-noun

Garrison finish (plural Garrison finishes)

After Edward H. Garrison (1868–1930), American jockey known for such finishes.

(horse racing) The situation where a competitor in a race pulls ahead at the last moment to score a dramatic victory.


Old World mouse

Coordinate term: New World mouse


Old World rat

Coordinate term: New World rat


New World mouse

Coordinate term: Old World mouse

Any mouse in the subfamilies Neotominae and Sigmodontinae.


New World rat

Coordinate term: Old World rat

Any rat in the subfamilies Neotominae, Sigmodontinae, and Tylomyinae.


greater capybara

greater capybara (plural greater capybaras)

Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris
Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris#Translingual

A semi-aquatic South American rodent of the species Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris, the largest living rodent.


lesser capybara

lesser capybara (plural lesser capybaras)

A semi-aquatic rodent of the species Hydrochoerus isthmius.


Cameroon scaly-tail

Cameroon scaly-tail (plural Cameroon scaly-tails)

A rodent of the species Zenkerella insignis.


acrobatic cavy

acrobatic cavy (plural acrobatic cavies)

A cavy of the species Kerodon acrobata, native to Brazil.


mountain cavy

Any cavy of the genus Microcavia, native to the Andes of southern South Anerica.


yellow-toothed cavy

yellow-toothed cavy (plural yellow-toothed cavies)

South American rodent belonging to the genus Galea.


plompy

Uncertain; perhaps inspired by floppa (“a caracal: a type of cat native to Southern Africa, West Asia, and parts of Central and South Asia”), and associated with DoggoLingo.
The name was popularised by, and perhaps originated in, a meme video posted around February 2021 consisting of four panels, one of which shows a person holding and rotating a bat-eared fox beside a static image of American actor and wrestler John Cena with a speech bubble from him stating: "Rotate the plompy".

rotate the plompy.. NOW

2021 February 28, @SamiClouded, Twitter:

The Columbus zoo has a sogga and a plompy! 🤯

Plompy rotational inertia at 1%
proceed with caution

2022 March 9, u/IndustrialMenace, “may i suggest rotating the plompy?”, in r/196, Reddit:

Wake up everybody, it's fluff-a-fox Friday! Make sure you give those wonderful foxxos in your life the best snugs and hugs and scritches you can muster!
Today, plompies get extra love. 🦇🦊

Plompy! now rotate him

2024 October 21, u/Kaliipso_Fox, “Side profile!”, in r/foxes, Reddit:

(Internet slang, furry fandom, endearing, humorous, neologism) A bat-eared fox.