dachshund
Americannoun
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dachshunds
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noun
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Etymology
Origin of dachshund
1840–50; < German, equivalent to Dachs badger + Hund dog
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A 2025 story of optimism from Valerie the dachshund.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 31, 2025
My little office where I write and hang out with my two dogs—a Great Dane and a rescued dachshund.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 2, 2025
At the beach in early July, the dachshund approached dogs 10 times his size with ease.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2025
A miniature dachshund has been found alive and well on Kangaroo Island off the coast of Australia, more than 500 days after she first went missing.
From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2025
He got that from an old cartoon about a dachshund named Auggie Doggie, by the way.
From "Wonder" by R. J. Palacio
They now walk their two dachshunds in the morning and do enrichment activities with them in the house to keep them occupied "since it's too hot to walk them after 8am or 9am".
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
Other subjects included Hockney’s dachshunds, Stanley and Boodgie; friends, such as textile designer Celia Birtwell and curator Henry Geldzahler; and family, including his mother and father.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
The AKC’s top 10 were: French bulldogs, Labrador retrievers, golden retrievers, German shepherds, poodles, bulldogs, Rottweilers, beagles, dachshunds and German shorthaired pointers.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 15, 2023
The highlight is Saturday afternoon’s 10th annual Wiener 500 Dachshund Dash, which finds multiple heats of dachshunds racing down a 70-foot track while humans cheer and watch on a giant video screen.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 15, 2022
In an envelope, I put ten dollars I’d made from walking the Gouchers’ dachshunds.
From "Crenshaw" by Katherine Applegate
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