spaniel
/ˈspænjəl/ verb C2- To follow loyally or obsequiously, like a spaniel.
He/she/it spaniels · Past spanieled · Past participle spanieled · -ing form spanieling
Verb forms
- Base form
- spaniel
- He/she/it
- spaniels
- Past
- spanieled
- Past participle
- spanieled
- -ing form
- spanieling
From the library
A spaniel had lain in a basket in the corner.
It may have been—yes, by Jove, it is a curly-haired spaniel.”
“I recommend, sir, that you take a cab, call off your spaniel who is scratching at my front door, and proceed to Waterloo to meet Sir Henry Baskerville.”
Mortimer’s spaniel.
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