fox terrier

English

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.

dog breeds

German: Foxterrier m, (smooth) Glatthaar-Foxterrier m, (smooth) Glatthaarfox m, (wire) Drahthaar-Foxterrier m, (wire) Drahthaarfox m
Malay: anjing fox terrier
Russian: фокстерье́р (ru) m (foksterʹjér)
Slovak: foxteriér m

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