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Discover LudwigThe word "terrier" is correct
It is used to refer to a type of dog breed known for its energetic and feisty nature. Example: "My terrier loves to dig in the garden and chase after squirrels."
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terrier
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A dog from a group of small, lively breeds, originally bred for the hunting of burrowing prey such as rats, rabbits, foxes, and even otters; this original function is reflected in some of their names (e.g. rat terrier).
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He went for walks with visitors, until they had eaten their lunch, and robbed tents, being particularly partial to bacon and cheese, which he sometimes shared with the farm terrier.
She even gave him his beloved Scottish terrier, Barney.
He represented a strand of the left that has otherwise all but disappeared.With his thick neck, tracksuits and bull terrier, Mr Crow looked like a figure from a London gangster film.
How hard it was, Ford and Hawks once agreed, to shoot a Western without Wayne.He was born Marion Morrison into a struggling Scots-Irish family in Iowa, nicknamed Duke as a boy after his Airedale terrier and renamed John Wayne on screen.
Sceptical Turkish-Cypriots had started quipping that Mr Denktash's last remaining friend was Boncuk, his pet terrier; but objectively, he has found a new one Mr Papadopoulos, the new father of rejectionism.Very logically from his point of view, the Turkish-Cypriot leader described the Greek thumbs-down as a vindication of his own scepticism about the viability of the Annan plan.
Where Mr Welch is a confrontational terrier, Mr Immelt is a bear of a man known for his teasing good humour.
There is a lot of death, too, in a lot of different forms: by drowning, by car accident (three times, though in one case the victim is a terrier), even by paint pot.Jarring, yes, but never simply miserable.
The grey floor-tiles with their snowflake motif were always swept clean, even though her fluffy mongrel terrier shed his long hair everywhere, and though the door was kept open to get some air in from the bike-filled, rowdy, dusty street.
In 1950 the Great Assam Earthquake shook those hills "as a terrier shakes a rat", in the words of an eyewitness.
A man with a Jack Russell terrier named Manny had moved into tent No. 6.
(One snippet from a recent "intimate portrait" of the first lady: Mr Bush likes to spend his evenings doing jigsaw puzzles, one of which shows the face of his Scotch terrier, Barney).There are lots of reasons for America's royalist turn.
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