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单词 dog-badger
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dog-badger
dog-badger n. Obsolete a supposed variety of the Eurasian badger, Meles meles, having the head (or feet) resembling those of a dog; cf. hog badger n. (a) at hog n.1 Compounds 2d.
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1678 J. P. tr. J. Johnstone Descr. Nature Four-footed Beasts 79/2 Some [Badgers] are wild, and rough-bristled; some are Dog, and some Hog, Badgers or Grays... The Dog-Badgers have a Dogs grin, and dig their holes in gravelly places.
1731 T. Salmon Mod. Hist. XIV. 109 Of Badgers there are two sorts, the one call'd the Dog Badger, from his resembling a Dog in his Feet, and the other the Hog-Badger, from having a Cloven-hoof like a Hog.
1827 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom V. 116 The country people pretend to distinguish two varieties, under the names of the Dog-Badger and the Hog-Badger, but they are not authenticated.
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