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Affenpinscher

Definition: Affenpinscher

Affenpinscher

Noun

1. European breed of small dog resembling a terrier with dark wiry hair and a tufted muzzle.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Synonyms: Affenpinscher

Synonyms: monkey dog (n), monkey pinscher (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Affenpinscher

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Affenpinscher

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Country of origin
Germany
Classification
FCI:Group 2 Section 1
AKC:Toy
ANKC:Group 1 (Toys)
CKC:Group 5 - Toys
KC(UK):Toy
NZKC:Toy
Breed standards (external links)
FCI, AKC, ANKC, KC(UK), NZKC

The Affenpinscher is a terrier-like toy breed of dog. Weighing 7-8 pounds (3-4 kg) and not exceeding 10.25 inches (26-27 cm) in height, it has bushy eyebrows, shaggy hair and a monkey-like appearance. The coat is medium long, harsh and wiry in texture. Colours are black for preference, with black and tan, red and dark grey also acceptable.

The breed in European in origin and dates back to the seventeenth century. Its name is derived from the German affen ("to mock") and pinscher ("terrier"). The breed predates and is ancestral to the Brussels Griffon and Belgian Griffon.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Affenpinscher."

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Affenpinscher

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

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143

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11

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10

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9

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9

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8

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6

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4

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4

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2
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Derivations: Affenpinscher

Derivations

Words beginning with "affenpinscher": affenpinschers. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Affenpinscher

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-f-f-h-i-n-n-p-r-s"

-2 letters: enfranchise, prefinances.

-3 letters: franchisee, prefinance, refinances.

-4 letters: caffeines, canneries, enciphers, enhancers, eparchies, franchise, narceines, refinance.

-5 letters: affiches, anserine, archines, aspheric, caffeine, caffeins, chaffers, chaffier, cheapens, cheapies, crannies, effacers, enchains, enchaser, encipher, enhancer, enhances, enriches, enshrine, faiences, fanciers, fiancees, finances, firepans, frenches, heparins, inarches, increase, insphere, naperies, narceine, narceins, painches, panfries, panniers, parchesi, peachers, peachier, penances, pharisee, piaffers, pinchers, pinnaces, pinscher, preaches, prefaces, sapience, scarfpin, seraphic, seraphin.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-f-f-h-i-n-n-p-r-s"
 

+1 letter: affenpinschers.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Affenpinscher


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

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HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

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British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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