corgi
noun
Meaning
- nounEllipsis of Welsh corgi (“a type of herding dog originating from Wales, having a small body, short legs, and fox-like features such as large ears; two separate breeds are recognized: the Cardigan Welsh Corgi and the Pembroke Welsh Corgi”).
- noun↑ “corgi, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, June 2018; “corgi, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- noun↑ For example, see Clifford L. B. Hubbard (1952), The Pembrokeshire Corgi Handbook: Giving the Origin and History of the Breed, Its Show Career, Its Points and Breeding (Dog Lover’s Library Series; no. 8), London: Nicholson & Watson, →OCLC, page 4: “The plural of Corgi is Corgwn and not Corgis.”
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