Wodehouse, who adored the Pekingese breed of dog, liked to judge people on whether they were sound on Pekes.
I asked him to be more explicit, and he amplified his epigram into: "Pekingese."
It is called The Pekingese, and is the revised edition for 1914.
Otherwise we shall get into a worse tangle than the Pekingese.
The driver was a solidly-built little man with the face of a Pekingese.
He gave a tug to the leads at which two Pekingese spaniels were straining.
But why should we not say that it was the introduction of Pekingese into England from China?
The Pekingese just stared at Scotty and stared without wagging his tail.
The dog tallied perfectly with what you had previously told him and the fact that it was a Pekingese made him suspicious.
On one occasion, when making "a little trip to Japan," I took my Pekingese boy with me.
1907, "small long-haired dog of the pug type," so called because originally brought from the Imperial Palace at Peking, China. Also Pekinese.
