What does BEAGLE mean?

Definitions for BEAGLE
ˈbi gəlbea·gle

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. beaglenoun

    a small short-legged smooth-coated breed of hound

Wiktionary

  1. beaglenoun

    A small short-legged smooth-coated hound, often used for hunting hares. Often tri-coloured, its friendly disposition makes it suitable as a family pet.

  2. beaglenoun

    A person who snoops on others; a detective.

  3. beagleverb

    To hunt with beagles.

  4. Etymology: From begle. Origin uncertain. The French bigle is from the English.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Beaglenoun

    A small hound with which hares are hunted.

    Etymology: bigle, Fr.

    The rest were various huntings.
    The graceful goddess was array’d in green;
    About her feet were little beagles seen,
    That watch’d with upward eyes the motions of their queen. John Dryden, Fables.

    To plains with well bred beagles we repair,
    And trace the mazes of the circling hare. Alexander Pope.

Wikipedia

  1. Beagle

    The beagle is a breed of small scent hound, similar in appearance to the much larger foxhound. The beagle was developed primarily for hunting hare, known as beagling. Possessing a great sense of smell and superior tracking instincts, the beagle is the primary breed used as a detection dog for prohibited agricultural imports and foodstuffs in quarantine around the world. The beagle is intelligent and is a popular pet due to its size, good temper, and a lack of inherited health problems. The modern breed was developed in Great Britain around the 1830s from several breeds, including the Talbot Hound, the North Country Beagle, the Southern Hound, and possibly the Harrier. Beagles have been depicted in popular culture since Elizabethan times in literature and paintings and more recently in film, television, and comic books.

ChatGPT

  1. beagle

    A beagle is a small to medium size breed of dogs, known for their keen sense of smell and tracking instincts. They typically have a white, black, and brown coat. Beagles are often used as scent detection dogs for purposes like quarantined food detection. They have a friendly and gentle temperament, making them popular as family pets. They were originally bred for hunting small game such as rabbits.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Beaglenoun

    a small hound, or hunting dog, twelve to fifteen inches high, used in hunting hares and other small game. See Illustration in Appendix

  2. Beaglenoun

    fig.: A spy or detective; a constable

Wikidata

  1. Beagle

    The Beagle is a breed of small to medium-sized dog. A member of the Hound Group, it is similar in appearance to the Foxhound, but smaller with shorter legs and longer, softer ears. Beagles are scent hounds, developed primarily for tracking hare, rabbit, and other small game. They have a great sense of smell and tracking instinct that sees them employed as detection dogs for prohibited agricultural imports and foodstuffs in quarantine around the world. Beagles are intelligent, and popular pets because of their size, even temper, and lack of inherited health problems. Although beagle-type dogs have existed for over 2,000 years, the modern breed was developed in Great Britain around the 1830s from several breeds, including the Talbot Hound, the North Country Beagle, the Southern Hound, and possibly the Harrier. Beagles have been depicted in popular culture since Elizabethan times in literature and paintings, and more recently in film, television and comic books. Snoopy of the comic strip Peanuts has been promoted as "the world's most famous beagle".

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Beagle

    bē′gl, n. a small hound tracking by scent, formerly much used in hunting hares, but now superseded by the harrier: a spy: a bailiff: a small kind of shark.—The beagle was often followed by men on foot, hence Foot′-bea′gle. [Ety. unknown. The Fr. bigle is borrowed from English. Dr Murray suggests Fr. bégueule, from béer, to gape, and gueule, throat.]

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. BEAGLE

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Beagle is ranked #10512 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Beagle surname appeared 3,053 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Beagle.

    93.8% or 2,865 total occurrences were White.
    2% or 61 total occurrences were Black.
    1.6% or 50 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    1.3% or 40 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    0.6% or 20 total occurrences were Asian.
    0.5% or 17 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of BEAGLE in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of BEAGLE in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of BEAGLE in a Sentence

  1. David Parker:

    Beagle 2 is no longer lost.

  2. Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy:

    In response to Biden's energy policy: Senator John Kennedy then gave a folksy analogy to describe Biden’s energy policy: “Ainsley, I used to have a beagle named Roger. And Roger was a rascal. About every two weeks, Roger would run off. He’d always come back but about half the time he’d come back dragging roadkill that he would hide under my back porch. President Biden’s energy policy looks like and smells like something Roger used to keep under my back porch.”

  3. Terry McAuliffe:

    Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign in waiting, ‘Ready for Hillary,’ … is piggybacking off the winner of last week’s The Westminster Kennel Club 139th Annual Dog Show to pitch some trinkets like dog collars and bowls. In the past, the group has featured a brown Boston terrier. But in a new email a beagle, like the show winner, is used.

  4. Mary Cummings:

    They are going to want a beagle because Miss P won, but it might not be the best breed for them.

  5. Aaron Beaumont:

    No one minds that a beagle is running around, they're not intimidating, which makes them unobtrusive when inspecting traveling passengers.

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