dachshunde

(plural): From German Dachshunde, plural of Dachshund.

dachshunde

1. (obsolete or used by German-speakers) plural of dachshund
   • 1890, Forest and Stream. A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun, volume XXXV, pages 152, column 3; 172, columns 2–3:

     The winning dachshund, Waldmann I., had no opposition. […] Mr. James Mortimer, Babylon, N., Y., mastiffs, great Danes, bulldogs, bull terriers, fox-terriers, collies, greyhounds, deerhounds, wolfhounds, bloodhounds, English foxhounds and dachshunde.

   • 1945, Belgium, volume 6, page 129, column 1:

     4) The dog is a dachshund, true. But didn’t someone say that “one cannot indict a whole race . . . of dachshunde”? / 5) There are plenty of dachshunde here in America and elsewhere, who have proven to be excellent dachshunde indeed.

   • 2005 April 5, Eugene Griessel, “Bloody silly U-boat question ....”, in sci.military.naval‎^[1] (Usenet), archived from the original on 6 October 2025:

     No. I don't believe it. That has got to be a cover-up for the long "Ultra Streng Geheim" fact that German sub skippers took their dachshunde to sea with them. I never heard that His Majesty or Uncle Sam had to build kennels for their magnetic compasses.

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The use of dachshunde initially peaked in 1889, though it remained considerably less common than the standard form dachshunds. In the late 1920s, dachshunde rose to prominence, surpassing dachshunds in usage from 1930 through 1937; however, it fell out of favor during World War II, and by 1950, dachshunde occurred less than 1% as often as dachshunds in English literature. By 1968, it was fully obsolete.

dachshunde (plural dachshundes)

1. Obsolete form of dachshund.
   • 1906, American Veterinary Medical Association, American Veterinary Review, volume 30, page 860:

     Another dog belonging to the same owner, a dachshunde, presented the same symptoms at about the same time.

   • 1930, The Dog Fancier, volume 39, page 5, column 3:

     […] C. H. Chamberlain, shepherds; Mrs. C. A. Latham, Boston terriers and bulldogs; Henry Oppenheimer, all sporting dogs, with the exception of beagles and dachshundes, all non-sporting not otherwise placed, and groups three, four and five; Earl C. Kruger, working dogs, excepting collies and shepherds, all terriers, all toys and groups, one, two and six; Mrs. Grayce Greenburg, beagles, dachshunde, French […]

   • 1940, “Record Westminster Dachshunde Entry”, in Dog World: The Complete All-breed Magazine, volume 25, “Judge’s Comments”, page 54, column 2:

     My responsibility was not to consider past performance or past condition; it was not to select the best dachshunde on a basis of reputation in interbreed competition; it was not to yield to a very genuine and deepseated fondness for a wonderful canine personality, and recall times such as a June evening in 1938 when a dachshunde I had placed best-of-breed at Onondaga that morning, most engagingly distracted me from impromptu culinary operations in a cottage on the shore of Lake Cayuga …

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