1. spaniel - Noun
2. spaniel - Adjective
3. spaniel - Verb
One of a breed of small dogs having long and thick hair and large drooping ears. The legs are usually strongly feathered, and the tail bushy. See Illust. under Clumber, and Cocker.
Cringing; fawning.
To fawn; to cringe; to be obsequious.
To follow like a spaniel.
Source: Webster's dictionaryI remember the first time I saw him. He was 13 and just floated over the ground like a cockier spaniel chasing a piece of silver paper in the wind. Alex Ferguson
Rance: A search party must be organized. What have you in the way of dogs? Prentice: A spaniel and a miniature poodle. Rance: Let them be unleashed! Joe Orton
Love your enemies and do good to them that hate and use you - is this not the despicable philosophy of the spaniel that rolls upon its back when kicked? Anton LaVey
I've got no talent. Still sing flat as a table. I'm a sort of human spaniel. People come to see what I'm like. I make them feel, I exhaust them, I destroy them. Johnnie Ray
Hibbert, p. 46; Longford, p. 54; St Aubyn, p. 50; Waller, p. 344; Woodham-Smith, p. 126 Heiress presumptive Victoria with her spaniel Dash, 1833 Painting by George Hayter Victoria later described her childhood as "rather melancholy". Source: Internet
Graham trotted after the larger than life McCain like a spaniel. Source: Internet