whippet

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++

Related topics: Animals, Sport

whip·pet /ˈwɪpɪt/ noun [countable]  HBADSa small thin racing dog like a greyhound 小灵狗〔一种小型赛狗〕

Examples from the Corpus

whippet• A tangled ball of dried grass raced back towards Aulef like a whippet bound for home.• Nabokov, who is exceedingly peremptory with all translators of Flaubert, renders this as whippet.• He is telling Larry about his whippets.• It took forty-seven stitches to put that whippet back together but it lived.• I knew him once, I knew the whippets.• He ran, often, up the Heath with the whippets, in the deadest night.• Some men thought more about their whippets or their pigeons - they thought nowt of slinging the wife out on the street.Origin whippet (1600-1700) Probably from whip “to move quickly”

whip·pet nounChineseSyllable  

a like small racing Corpus dog a thin

whippet
whip‧pet /ˈwɪpət, ˈwɪpɪt/ noun [countable]a small thin racing dog like a greyhound

whip·petBrE /ˈwɪpɪt/ 🔊NAmE /ˈwɪpɪt/ 🔊 nouna small thin dog, similar to a greyhound, that can run very fast and is often used for racing 小灵狗（类似灵𤟥，常用于赛狗）