sausage dog
- noun
- /ˈsɔsɪdʒ dɔg/
- UK
:
perro salchicha
- At the park, I saw a little sausage dog running after a ball.
Examples
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The sausage dog wiggled its tail excitedly when it saw its owner.
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- Isn't it a sausage dog?
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My friend just adopted a cute sausage dog that loves to play fetch.
Synonyms
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4.4
A small dog with a long body, short legs, and long ears bred to hunt animals in burrows
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3.1
A small dog with a long body and short legs often kept as a pet
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9.1
A small dog with short legs and a long body
A small dog with a long body and short legs, a dachshund
A small dog with a long body and short legs, like a dachshund
Surface Forms
Morphology
This noun-noun compound is directly compositional: 'sausage' describes the dog's shape and 'dog' names the animal, so a learner who knows both words can infer a long, short-legged dog (a dachshund). The metaphorical shape comparison is straightforward and follows common compounding patterns, making the meaning immediately derivable for a B1 learner.
Etymology
Sausage dog The compound noun sausage dog comes from the animal's long, thin body that looks like a sausage on short legs. One popular story says people used that clear picture to name the small dog, so today sausage dog means 'dachshund'.