fox terrier

English

fox terrier (plural fox terriers)

Either of two breeds of dog (the smooth fox terrier and the wire fox terrier) bred for fox hunting.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, pages 46–47:
  One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.

dog breeds

Czech: foxteriér (cs) m
Esperanto: vulpa terhundo
Finnish: kettuterrieri (fi), foksterrieri
French: fox-terrier (fr) m
German: Foxterrier m, (smooth) Glatthaar-Foxterrier m, (smooth) Glatthaarfox m, (wire) Drahthaar-Foxterrier m, (wire) Drahthaarfox m
Hungarian: foxterrier (hu), foxi (hu)
Malay: anjing fox terrier
Polish: foksterier m
Russian: фокстерье́р (ru) m (foksterʹjér)
Slovak: foxteriér m
Swedish: foxterrier (sv) c

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