Crossword-Solution: SPANIEL
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Spaniel | n. | One of a breed of small dogs having long and thick hair and large drooping ears. The legs are usually strongly feathered, and the tail bushy. See Illust. under Clumber, and Cocker. |
| Spaniel | n. | A cringing, fawning person. |
| Spaniel | a. | Cringing; fawning. |
| Spaniel | v. i. | To fawn; to cringe; to be obsequious. |
| Spaniel | v. t. | To follow like a spaniel. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SPANIEL | anagram | ALPINES, LEAPSIN, NEPALIS, PINSEAL, PLAINES |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with SPANIEL (5)
Royall's room, with the high-backed horsehair chair, the faded rag carpet, the row of books on a shelf, the engraving of “The Surrender of Burgoyne” over the stove, and the mat with a brown and white spaniel on a moss-green border.
Presently, Paul was bidden call upon Thomas Jordan, Manufacturer of Surgical Appliances, at 21, Spaniel Row, Nottingham.
One would think he had seen a ghost.” “I expect it was the spaniel,” said the niece calmly; “he told me he had a horror of dogs.
The Spaniel stopped short in dire consternation, and, after regarding the Bulldog a moment from a safe distance, said: "I don't know whether you cultivate the arts of peace or your flag is flung to the battle and the breeze and your voice is for war.
The air of spaniel-like dependence had been magnified and showed its direct effect in the peculiar off-handedness and ease of Pete's ways toward her.
Quotes with SPANIEL (3)
Succotash my cocker spaniel, you fudging crevasse-hole dipshiitake!
I have been seeing dragons again. Last night, hunched on a beaver dam, one held a body like a badly held cocktail; his tail, keeping the beat of a waltz, sent a morse of ripples to my canoe. They are not richly brightbut muted like dawnsor the vague sheen on a fly's wing. Their old flesh drags in foldsas they drop into grey pools, strain behind a tree. Finally the others saw one today, trapped, tangled in our badminton net. The minute eyes shuddered deep in the creased facewh…
In short, Daniel was once again a member of a family. Viewed from without they were a strange enough family: a rattling, hunchbacked old woman, a spoiled senile cocker spaniel, and a eunuch with a punctured career (for though Rey didn’t live with them, his off-stage presence was as abiding and palpable as that of any paterfamilias away every day at the office). And Daniel himself. But better to be strange together than strange apart. He was glad to have found such a haven at …
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 61 times in crossword archives (1944–2023).