water dog

See also: waterdog

English

The Barbet, one of the oldest breeds of water dogs

Noun

water dog (plural water dogs)

1. A retriever type of gun dog bred to flush and retrieve game from water.
2. Synonym of seadog (“a sailor accustomed to the sea”).
   • 1860, Chambers's Edinburgh journal, page 215:

     Jim Bowes, in fact, looked like what he was — a rough old water-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'agua m
• Basque: urtxakur (eu)
• Bulgarian: водно куче n (vodno kuče)
• Catalan: gos d'aigua (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 水犬 (shuǐquǎn)

• Czech: vodní pes m
• Danish: vandhund (da) c
• Dutch: waterhond m
• Estonian: veekoer
• Finnish: vesikoira; vedestä noutava lintukoira (retrieving fowl from water)
• French: chien d’eau (fr) m
• Galician: can de auga m
• German: Wasserhund m
• Hungarian: vízikutya (hu)
• Icelandic: vatnahundur m
• Indonesian: anjing air (id)
• Irish: uisceadóir m
• Italian: cane d'acqua m
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: ūdenssuns m
• Lithuanian: vandens šuo m
• Luxembourgish: Waasserhond m
• Malay: anjing air
• Mirandese: perro d'auga m
• North Frisian: weederhünj m
• Norwegian: vannhund
• Polish: pies wodny m, pies dowodny m
• Portuguese: cão de água m, cão d'água m
• Romanian: câine de apă m
• Russian: водяная соба́ка f (vodjanaja sobáka)
• Saterland Frisian: Woaterhúund
• Serbo-Croatian: voden pas m, воден пас m
• Slovak: vodný pes m
• Spanish: perro de agua m
• Swedish: vattenhund
• Turkish: su köpeği
• Ukrainian: водяний собака m (vodjanyj sobaka)
• Vietnamese: chó lội nước
• Welsh: ci dŵr m
• West Frisian: wetterhûn m