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say it: DAHKS-huund
dachshund is a noun meaning "small long-bodied short-legged German breed of dog having a short sleek coat and long drooping ears; suited for following game into burrows". It carries one recorded sense.
small long-bodied short-legged German breed of dog having a short sleek coat and long drooping ears; suited for following game into burrows
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for dachshund come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.