water dog

See also:waterdog

English

Noun

waterdog(pluralwater dogs)

1. Aretrievertype ofgun dogbred to flush and retrievegamefrom water.
2. Synonym ofseadog(“a sailor accustomed to the sea”).
   • 1860,Chambers's Edinburgh journal,page215:

     Jim Bowes, in fact, looked like what he was — a rough oldwater-dog,who had grown gray and shaggy amidst the winds and waves, without ever troubling himself about the other shore that bounds the sea of life.

Synonyms

• water spaniel(dated as a general term)

Translations

water dog

• Afrikaans:waterhond
• Aragonese:can d'aguam
• Basque:urtxakur(eu)
• Bulgarian:водно кучеn(vodno kuče)
• Catalan:gos d'aigua(ca)m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin:Thủy khuyển(shuǐquǎn)

• Czech:vodní pesm
• Danish:vandhund(da)c
• Dutch:waterhondm
• Estonian:veekoer
• Finnish:vesikoira;vedestänoutavalintukoira(retrieving fowl from water)
• French:chien d’eau(fr)m
• Galician:can de augam
• German:Wasserhundm
• Hungarian:vízikutya(hu)
• Icelandic:vatnahundurm
• Indonesian:anjing air(id)
• Irish:uisceadóirm
• Italian:cane d'acquam
• Japanese:please add this translation if you can
• Latvian:ūdenssunsm
• Lithuanian:vandens šuom
• Luxembourgish:Waasserhondm
• Malay:anjing air
• Mirandese:perro d'augam
• North Frisian:weederhünjm
• Norwegian:vannhund
• Polish:pies wodnym,pies dowodnym
• Portuguese:cão de águam,cão d'águam
• Romanian:câine de apăm
• Russian:водяная соба́каf(vodjanaja sobáka)
• Saterland Frisian:Woaterhúund
• Serbo-Croatian:voden pasm,воден пасm
• Slovak:vodný pesm
• Spanish:perro de aguam
• Swedish:vattenhund
• Turkish:su köpeği
• Ukrainian:водяний собакаm(vodjanyj sobaka)
• Vietnamese:chó lội nước
• Welsh:ci dŵrm
• West Frisian:wetterhûnm