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muishond S. Afr.|ˈmœishɔnt|
Also 9 mausehund, mousehund.
[Afrikaans, f. muis mouse n. + hond dog; cf. mouse-hunt1.]
The Cape polecat, Ictonyx striatus, which is black with white stripes, or one of several species of mongoose. Also fig.
1796tr. F. Le Vaillant's New Trav. Afr. I. 236 It [sc. a stranded whale] was attacked..by different species of those small quadrupeds..which, at the Cape, are known under the general name of muyshond. Ibid. III. 278 My Hottentots of the colony all recognized it as a muyshond (mouse-dog), a general name among the inhabitants of the Cape for all the little carnivorous quadrupeds. 1818C. I. Latrobe Jrnl. Visit S. Afr. 36 We observed a tame mongoose or mausehund from Java..which ran about and suffered itself to be handled. 1835A. Smith Diary 5 Jan. (1939) I. 204 A hare and a muishond for sale. 1853Edin. New Philos. Jrnl. LV. 210 Two or three different kinds of Mousehund, or weasel..are commonly seen. 1900B. Mitford Aletta xii. 111 She went round among her fowl⁓houses, then strolled along the quince hedges to see if any of the hens had been laying out and in irregular places for the benefit of the egg-loving muishond, or similar vermin. 1912F. W. Fitzsimons Snakes S. Afr. (new ed.) 30 Within two yards of us was a striped Muishond with his paws firmly planted on an adult Black-necked cobra. 1937H. Klein Stage-Coach Dust xxiv. 208 A muishond (pole-cat) startled the town-bred horse, and away he galloped. 1946Cape Argus 16 Nov. 6/2 Two varieties of muishond now have prices on their heads. 1952― 12 Jan. 4/5 His request for tame ‘wild’ animals has only produced in Cape Town a muishond and a monkey. 1970News/Check (S. Afr.) 12 June 11 An assumption has grown up over the past year or more that South Africa was well and truly isolated, that it remained the muishond of the world with whom nobody wanted anything to do. 1974Daily Dispatch (East London, Cape Province) 21 Nov. 10 A rabid muishond has been killed on Arbrook, farm of Mr. George Michau. |