vizsla

American  

[vizh-lo] / ˈvɪʒ lɒ /

noun

(sometimes initial capital letter)

1. one of a Hungarian breed of medium-sized, powerful hunting dogs having a short, smooth, rusty-gold coat, a square muzzle, and a docked tail.

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vizsla British  

/ ˈvɪʒlə /

noun

1. a breed of Hungarian hunting dog with a smooth rusty-gold coat

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Etymology

Origin of vizsla

1940–45; < Hungarian; akin to Serbo-Croatian vȉžao, Czech vyžle, vyžel, Polish wyżeł, Russian výzhlets; ultimately source and direction of transmission uncertain

Example Sentences

That means once you take your final Zoom call, your vizsla will be ready to run and run.

From Los Angeles Times

There was a Labrador retriever, a Leonberger, a cavalier King Charles spaniel, a cavapoochon, a French bulldog, a wheaten terrier and two vizslas.

From Washington Post

Claire Guest, CEO of the U.K. organization Medical Detection Dogs, and her team first trained a Labrador retriever and a wirehaired vizsla to identify urine samples from prostate-cancer-positive and negative patients.

From Scientific American

Under an international research programme, a Labrador, Florin, and a vizsla, Midas, sniffed out the cancer's odour in urine samples from patients.

From BBC

“Mother and daughter with vizslas at the dining table,” Sterling, Connecticut, 1992.

From The New Yorker