Noun: terrier
| Singular | terrier |
| Plural | terriers |
Sample Sentences
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One of the LNER dispatch staff is a terrier when it comes to masks, challenging anyone without them. [2020 November 4, Paul Bigland, “At no point have I felt unsafe...”, in Rail, page 47:]
Nouns inflected like terrier
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French, from Old French chien terrier (“terrier dog”), from chien (“dog”) + Old French terrier (“of earth”, adjective), from Medieval Latin terrarius (“of earth”), from Latin terra (“earth”). See: Latin Nouns '
terra'.
Verbs referencing "terrier"
Danish Nouns
terrier, Italian Nouns
terrier, Spanish Nouns
terrier, Swedish Nouns
terrier, Finnish Nouns
terrieri, Russian Nouns
терьер, Dutch Nouns
terriër.