dachshunde

(plural): From German Dachshunde, plural of Dachshund.

dachshunde

1. (obsolete) plural of dachshund
   • 1890, Forest and Stream. A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun, volume XXXV, pages 152, column 3; 172, columns 2–3:

     The winning dachshund, Waldmann I., had no opposition. […] Mr. James Mortimer, Babylon, N., Y., mastiffs, great Danes, bulldogs, bull terriers, fox-terriers, collies, greyhounds, deerhounds, wolfhounds, bloodhounds, English foxhounds and dachshunde.

   • 1892 February 18, Forest and Stream. A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun, volume XXXVIII, New York, page 154, column 2:

     Any other color, dogs—Red Rowland has a dachshund front, but a rather good head; Little Ben II. is rather long, too much cut out before eye, and feet turn out. […] Dachshunde are evidently making a move to the front.

   • 1894 March 13, Harper’s Young People, volume XV, New York: Harper & Brothers, page 326:

     For next the bull-dogs were the Dachshunde, with their short bow-legs, their flat little paws that can dig so quickly into the ground, and their long thin bodies and pointed noses. […] And the great mastiff, who hardly considered the Dachshund worthy of his notice before, begins to see some use in those tiny legs, and wishes he had been able to get the mouse himself.

   • 1900, Lilian Bell, As Seen by Me, Outlook Verlag, published 2019, →ISBN, page 76:

     When we came to the place we found the foresters watching the dachshunde. These I discovered to be long, flat, shallow dogs with stumpy legs—a dog which an American has described as “looking as if he was always coming out from under a bureau.” Very cautiously here and there the foresters uncovered a burrow, and a dachshund disappeared. Then from below ground came the sounds of fighting. The dachshunde had found their prey.

   • 1907, G. A. Melbourne, Dogs, page 101:

     IF we can believe our old, wise searchers or investigators, the Dachshund belonged to the oldest breed of dogs known in ancient times. […] Since the Sixteenth Century German literature speaks of the Dachshunde, although they are described differently at times, as, for instance, the “little earth dog or hole dog.”

   • 1930, The American Kennel Gazette, volume 47, page 19, column 1; 20, column 1:

     To anyone who has owned a dachshund I need not dilate upon the cleverness of the breed nor of the characteristics that make these dogs ideal pets for young or old, city or country dwellers. […] Freeman Lloyd, who has hunted badgers with dachshunde both here and abroad, says our western badgers are, if anything, more rapid diggers and even harder bitten than their European cousins.

   • 1935, Country Life, volume 68, page 4, column 2:

     […] judges are coming from Germany for two great outstanding German breeds, the Dachshunde and the German Shepherds, a judge from Norway for the Norwegian Elkhounds, a judge from England for the Scottish Terriers—and probably more dogs entered than ever before.

   • 1939, The American Kennel Gazette, volume 56, page 58, columns 1, 3:

     October 31, I attended a tea which followed a meeting of the committee making plans for the annual joint dachshund specialty show at Tattershalls next April, which I believe with its 1938 turnout of 279 dachshunde, toppped our 1937 record of 276 dachshunde, and held the world record until our 311 set a new high a few weeks later. […] The two-day show ended when Enno Meyer, Milford, Ohio, awarded the most coveted trophy to the dachshund.

   • 1945, Belgium, volume 6, page 129, column 1:

     4) The dog is a dachshund, true. But didn’t someone say that “one cannot indict a whole race . . . of dachshunde”? / 5) There are plenty of dachshunde here in America and elsewhere, who have proven to be excellent dachshunde indeed.

The use of dachshunde initially peaked in 1889, though it remained considerably less common than the standard form dachshunds. In the late 1920s, dachshunde rose to prominence, surpassing dachshunds in usage from 1930 through 1937; however, it fell out of favor during World War II, and by 1950, dachshunde occurred less than 1% as often as dachshunds in English literature. By 1968, it was fully obsolete.

dachshunde (plural dachshundes)

1. Obsolete form of dachshund
   • 1891, George B. Taylor, Man’s Friend, the Dog: A Treatise upon the Dog, with Information as to the Value of the Different Breeds, and the Best Way to Care for Them, New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, page 9:

     First: Field sport dogs; Spaniels, small Cockers of both liver and white and black varieties and Dachshundes.

   • 1891 January 10, “Sparks from Brittle’s Pen. Interesting Facts and Fancies Culled from the Doggy World”, in The Fanciers’ Journal. Devoted to Dogs, Poultry, Pigeons & Pet Stock, volume 6, page 22, column 3:

     A Basset hound, a Dachshunde, even a half-bred terrier might be an excellent worker, but that wouldn’t warrant either of the trio being in the money.

   • 1906, American Veterinary Medical Association, American Veterinary Review, volume 30, page 860:

     Another dog belonging to the same owner, a dachshunde, presented the same symptoms at about the same time.

   • 1930, The Dog Fancier, volume 39, page 5, column 3:

     […] C. H. Chamberlain, shepherds; Mrs. C. A. Latham, Boston terriers and bulldogs; Henry Oppenheimer, all sporting dogs, with the exception of beagles and dachshundes, all non-sporting not otherwise placed, and groups three, four and five; Earl C. Kruger, working dogs, excepting collies and shepherds, all terriers, all toys and groups, one, two and six; Mrs. Grayce Greenburg, beagles, dachshunde, French […]

   • 1940, “Record Westminster Dachshunde Entry”, in Dog World: The Complete All-breed Magazine, volume 25, “Judge’s Comments”, page 54, column 2:

     My responsibility was not to consider past performance or past condition; it was not to select the best dachshunde on a basis of reputation in interbreed competition; it was not to yield to a very genuine and deepseated fondness for a wonderful canine personality, and recall times such as a June evening in 1938 when a dachshunde I had placed best-of-breed at Onondaga that morning, most engagingly distracted me from impromptu culinary operations in a cottage on the shore of Lake Cayuga …