fox terrier
English
Noun
fox terrier (plural fox terriers)
- Either of two breeds of dog (the smooth fox terrier and the wire fox terrier) bred for fox hunting.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 4, in The Celebrity:
- One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.
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Derived terms
Derived terms
- miniature fox terrier
- smooth fox terrier
- toy fox terrier
- wire fox terrier
Translations
dog breeds
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