| 单词 | blue heeler |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblue heeler blue heeler n. Australian and New Zealand a variety of the Australian cattle dog having a coat of mixed black and white hairs that give it a greyish speckled appearance; cf. heeler n.2 6a. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > sheepdog > [noun] > Australian cattle-dog cattle-dog1878 bluey1879 blue heeler1900 Queensland heeler1905 Australian cattle-dog1926 Queensland blue heeler1956 1900 Sydney Morning Herald 10 Feb. 12/1 They are generally known as blue heelers, and sometimes, though erroneously, as Smithfield dogs. 1943 Bulletin (Sydney) 14 July 12/3 He rode up to a cattle station in Queensland..with a blue heeler in tow and asked for a job. 1976 Spleen Dec. 19 He starts boiling about three hundred yards away... Jed, the blue-heeler and Puke race after him. 2009 S. Slater 0 to 60 xii. 113 ‘Do you think we start looking like our pets as we get older?’ ‘Blue heelers are handsome.’ < as lemmas |
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