fox terrier

English

Noun

fox terrier (plural fox terriers)

1. Either of two breeds of dog (the smooth fox terrier and the wire fox terrier) bred for fox hunting.

   Synonym: (Australia, New Zealand) foxie

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, pages 46–47:

     One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.

   • 1948 March and April, 'Aella', “First Steps in a Railway Career”, in Railway Magazine, page 91:

     After our fox-terrier had killed several of the Stationmaster's chickens and a peace offering had been made by my father in the form of cigars, I found that the way had been made clear for me to visit the junction box, and what a thrill it was.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• miniature fox terrier
• smooth fox terrier
• toy fox terrier
• wire fox terrier

Translations

dog breeds

• Czech: foxteriér (cs) m, foxteriérka f
• Dutch: foxterriër (nl) m
• Esperanto: vulpa terhundo
• Finnish: kettuterrieri (fi), foksterrieri, foksi (fi), kettis
• French: fox-terrier (fr) m
• German: Foxterrier m, (smooth) Glatthaar-Foxterrier m, (smooth) Glatthaarfox m, (wire) Drahthaar-Foxterrier m, (wire) Drahthaarfox m
• Hungarian: foxterrier (hu), foxi (hu)
• Malay: anjing fox terrier
• Polish: foksterier m
• Russian: фокстерье́р (ru) m (foksterʹjér)
• Slovak: foxteriér m
• Swedish: foxterrier (sv) c