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Latest revision as of 23:52, 25 September 2013 English[edit] Wikipedia Etymology[edit] From Old French espaigneul (modern French épagneul), from Latin Hispāniolus ("Spanish"), from Hispānia ("Spain"). Pronunciation[edit] spaniel (plural spaniels) - Any of various small breeds of gun dog having a broad muzzle, long, wavy fur and long ears that hang at the side of the head, bred for flushing and retrieving game.
- A cringing, fawning person.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
Derived terms[edit] Translations[edit] spaniel (third-person singular simple present spaniels, present participle spanielling, simple past and past participle spanielled) - To follow loyally or obsequiously, like a spaniel.
- 1606: Shakespeare, William, The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra
- Antony: Do we shake hands.—All come to this!—The hearts / That spaniel'd me at heels, to whom I gave / Their wishes, do discandy, melt their sweets
- 1840, J. Sedgewick, Timon, but not of Athens, page 200:
- Always spanielling at the heels of power, the mitred Dignitaries displayed, from first to last, the most rancorous hostility against her.
- 2000, David S. Bell, Presidential Power in Fifth Republic France, ISBN 185973376X, page 30:
- Hence Duverger's famous question about de Gaulle's first spanielling Prime Minister makes political ('M. Debré, existe-t-il?'), but not constitutional sense.
- 2003, Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn, The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction, ISBN 0521016576, page 65:
- The genre which differed from the world in order to advocate a better one - or the genre which spanielled at heel the sensationalist virtual reality world we will now arguably inhabit till the planet dies - had become by 2000, in triumpth or defeat or both, an institution for the telling of story.
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