Dictionary entry
Whippet
Pronunciation: /ˈwɪpɪt/
Pronunciation
/ˈwɪpɪt/
Myanmar Meaning
(ခွေးသမင်နှင့်တူ၍ ကိုယ်သေးသွယ်သော) ပြိုင်ခွေးမျိုး။ ဝစ်ပက်ခွေး။
Definition
whippet /'wÇpÇt/ n (ေခြးသမင္ႏွင့္တူ၍ ကိုယ္ေသးသြယ္ေသာ) ၿပိဳင္ေခြးမ်ဳိး။ ဝစ္ပက္ေခြး။
Examples
- ‘There will be three rings at the dog show for greyhounds
- lurchers
- whippets and any other breeds.’
- ‘Manchester Dogs' Home is seeking an owner for Murphy
- a cross whippet.’
- ‘‘I've always loved greyhounds and whippets
- ’ says Myles
- glancing over at his pet's naturally doleful expression.’
- ‘In addition to salukis
- eligible breeds are whippets
- greyhounds
- Afghan hounds
- borzois
- Ibizan hounds
- pharaoh hounds
- Irish wolfhounds
- and Scottish deerhounds.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘It is pretty well understood that both whippets and setters/pointers were used in the early development of the breed.’
- ‘As the fisherman approaches
- the falconer's spaniels look enquiringly at each other
- and his whippet
- all four paws at attention
- stares respectfully at such an admirable salmon.’
- ‘He had an abundance of dogs which he raised and trained
- including lurchers
- spaniels
- Labradors
- Jack Russells and whippets.’
- ‘Up here in the frozen North it is grim
- nothing but cloth caps
- whippets and warm beer.’
- ‘You can equate it with the size
- say
- of a whippet
- a dog.’
- ‘Much of the population is daft about dogs and there are not many whippets here so people stop us in the street.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘It was the perfect setting for dogs - and Myles's first choice was whippets.’
- ‘Several of the dogs and Monty were given oxygen therapy
- but one dog
- a whippet called Smokey
- died after inhaling too much smoke.’
- ‘Mrs Yacoby-Wright and her mother Eva breed whippets and own seven dogs between them.’
- ‘Some underfeed their whippets
- or greyhounds
- because they mistakenly think these breeds are meant to be stick-thin.’
- ‘Prouty
- who breeds and shows Australian shepherds
- had given the whippet's future plenty of thought by this point.’
- ‘We were going very slow
- so we were passed by a number of speedy
- whippets who were clearly treating this as a slightly longer-than-usual training run.’
- ‘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
- with whom I struck up an immediate friendship.’
- ‘He spent the early years of his life playing in the bar with a whippet and a greyhound.’