1
: a member of any of several breeds of small or medium-sized mostly short-legged dogs usually having long wavy hair, feathered legs and tail, and large drooping ears
2
: a fawning servile person
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On Thursday, his caseload included doing acupuncture on five cats, a Clumber spaniel named Aspen and a guinea pig named Pony; vaccinating a 14-year-old Bichon Frisé named Cabo San Lucas and doing a checkup on a 30-pound, 12-week-old Bernese mountain dog.
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Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 27 June 2024
But the spaniels in the paintings are almost always the cinnamon-and-white variety known as a Blenheim spaniel.
—David Frum, The Atlantic, 21 Mar. 2024
Or did our 9-year-old spaniel mix just feel forgotten as all the humans were busying themselves with the wedding of Arya’s owners — Laura Shorey and our son Max.
—Rick Montgomery, Kansas City Star, 30 Jan. 2024
For example, Tibetan spaniels could live to the ripe age of 15.2 years, an extremely old age for a dog with their flattened facial proportions.
—Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 2 Feb. 2024
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Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 27 June 2024
But the spaniels in the paintings are almost always the cinnamon-and-white variety known as a Blenheim spaniel.
—David Frum, The Atlantic, 21 Mar. 2024
Or did our 9-year-old spaniel mix just feel forgotten as all the humans were busying themselves with the wedding of Arya’s owners — Laura Shorey and our son Max.
—Rick Montgomery, Kansas City Star, 30 Jan. 2024
For example, Tibetan spaniels could live to the ripe age of 15.2 years, an extremely old age for a dog with their flattened facial proportions.
—Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 2 Feb. 2024
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spaniel
noun
span·iel
ˈspan-yəl 
: a member of any of several breeds of small or medium-sized mostly short-legged dogs that usually have long wavy hair and large drooping ears
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