shih tzu

shih tzu (plural shih tzus or shih tzu)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Shih Tzu.
   • 2014 November, Elaine Viets, chapter 6, in A Dog Gone Murder: Josie Marcus, Mystery Shopper (An Obsidian Mystery), Obsidian, Penguin Group, →ISBN, page 37:

     "And who is your baby?" he asked Jane. / "Stuart Little," she said. "He's a shih tzu." / "We love shih tzus," Uncle Bob said. "Let me show you all the fun things we have for Stuart."

   • 2015, Lisa Genova, chapter 2, in Inside the O’Briens: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Gallery Books, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 11:

     She came home from the animal shelter with a shih tzu. He still thinks she did that just to spite him, her way of getting in the last word. […] Yaz is a good dog, and Joe is man enough to be seen out in Charlestown walking a shih tzu. As long as Rosie doesn't dress the pooch in one of those friggin' sweaters.

From the Wade-Giles romanisation shih¹-tzu⁰ of Mandarin 獅子／狮子 (shīzi, “lion”), from 獅子狗／狮子狗 (shīzigǒu, literally “lion dog”).

shih tzu

1. shih tzu, Shih Tzu (breed of dog)