Dictionary entry

Whippet

Pronunciation: /ˈwɪpɪt/

Pronunciation

/ˈwɪpɪt/

Myanmar Meaning

(ခွေးသမင်နှင့်တူ၍ ကိုယ်သေးသွယ်သော) ပြိုင်ခွေးမျိုး။ ဝစ်ပက်ခွေး။

Definition

whippet /'wÇpÇt/ n (ေခြးသမင္ႏွင့္တူ၍ ကိုယ္ေသးသြယ္ေသာ) ၿပိဳင္ေခြးမ်ဳိး။ ဝစ္ပက္ေခြး။

Examples

  1. ‘There will be three rings at the dog show for greyhounds
  2. lurchers
  3. whippets and any other breeds.’
  4. ‘Manchester Dogs' Home is seeking an owner for Murphy
  5. a cross whippet.’
  6. ‘‘I've always loved greyhounds and whippets
  7. ’ says Myles
  8. glancing over at his pet's naturally doleful expression.’
  9. ‘In addition to salukis
  10. eligible breeds are whippets
  11. greyhounds
  12. Afghan hounds
  13. borzois
  14. Ibizan hounds
  15. pharaoh hounds
  16. Irish wolfhounds
  17. and Scottish deerhounds.’
  18. ‘She was on her way to an important business meeting and was dressed to impress when the whippet cross ran out in front of her car in Shannon Way.’
  19. ‘It is pretty well understood that both whippets and setters/pointers were used in the early development of the breed.’
  20. ‘As the fisherman approaches
  21. the falconer's spaniels look enquiringly at each other
  22. and his whippet
  23. all four paws at attention
  24. stares respectfully at such an admirable salmon.’
  25. ‘He had an abundance of dogs which he raised and trained
  26. including lurchers
  27. spaniels
  28. Labradors
  29. Jack Russells and whippets.’
  30. ‘Up here in the frozen North it is grim
  31. nothing but cloth caps
  32. whippets and warm beer.’
  33. ‘You can equate it with the size
  34. say
  35. of a whippet
  36. a dog.’
  37. ‘Much of the population is daft about dogs and there are not many whippets here so people stop us in the street.’
  38. ‘People across the country might reckon we all go about with cloth caps and whippets but Yorkshire is a very beautiful county and perhaps we should be shouting about how wonderful the natural landscape is.’
  39. ‘It was the perfect setting for dogs - and Myles's first choice was whippets.’
  40. ‘Several of the dogs and Monty were given oxygen therapy
  41. but one dog
  42. a whippet called Smokey
  43. died after inhaling too much smoke.’
  44. ‘Mrs Yacoby-Wright and her mother Eva breed whippets and own seven dogs between them.’
  45. ‘Some underfeed their whippets
  46. or greyhounds
  47. because they mistakenly think these breeds are meant to be stick-thin.’
  48. ‘Prouty
  49. who breeds and shows Australian shepherds
  50. had given the whippet's future plenty of thought by this point.’
  51. ‘We were going very slow
  52. so we were passed by a number of speedy
  53. whippets who were clearly treating this as a slightly longer-than-usual training run.’
  54. ‘I was still able to get a flavour of the place through my meetings with animals such as Trixie the eight-year-old whippet cross
  55. with whom I struck up an immediate friendship.’
  56. ‘He spent the early years of his life playing in the bar with a whippet and a greyhound.’