What does dachshund mean?
Word: Dachshund
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Dachshund means a small dog with a long body and very short legs.
How do you spell dachshund?
Syllables: dachs - hund
Tricky part: Pupils picture a hound and slip in an o, writing dachshound. The name of this dog has only a u there.
Watch out for: dachshound, dachsund, dachshoond
Memory tip: This little dog is a hound that has lost its o.
Dachshund in a sentence
Example 1: A dachshund trotted beside the postman all the way down our lane.
Example 2: My cousin named her dachshund Laddu because he loves sweets.
Example 3: The dachshund could not reach the sofa, so Rohan built it a small ramp.
Fun Fact
Waldi, the first official Olympic mascot, was a striped dachshund created for the 1972 Games in Munich, Germany.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Cookie
Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:
da_h_hund
a) s, c
b) c, z
c) k, s
d) c, s
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d) c, s. A German name keeps its German letters: c before the h, then s before the next h.
Word Cookie
Find the extra letter in the word:
dachshunde
a) h
b) d
c) s
d) e
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d) e. In English the name stops at the d, and no e follows.
Mingle-Mangle
Rearrange the jumbled letters in the sentence to form the right word:
Our neighbour's little nahhsddcu waddled across the lawn after a tennis ball.
a) bloodhound
b) greyhound
c) dachshund
d) sheepdog
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c) dachshund. All three other dogs need an o, and this jumble has none.
Spell-o-Spell
Read the four words. Choose the meaning of the only correctly spelt word:
1. dachshund 2. labradore 3. dalmation 4. rotweiler
a) a large, strong black-and-tan dog
b) a large white dog with dark spots
c) a low dog with a long back
d) a big friendly dog, often trained as a guide dog
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c) a low dog with a long back. Dalmatian ends in tian, labrador has no e at the end and rottweiler needs a double t.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which job did a dachshund's long, low shape suit best?
a) squeezing into narrow burrows
b) herding sheep on open hills
c) swimming out to fishing boats
d) pulling sledges across snow
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a) squeezing into narrow burrows
2. In Britain this dog has a joking nickname. Which food is it named after?
a) the baguette
b) the noodle
c) the sausage
d) the cucumber
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c) the sausage
