What's the difference between minx and puppy?

Minx


Definition:

  • (n.) A pert or a wanton girl.
  • (n.) A she puppy; a pet dog.
  • (n.) The mink; -- called also minx otter.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "It's not intentional, but it can have a detrimental effect on international agreements," Minx said.
  • (2) There were features, I vaguely remember, especially in Minx which had particularly good writing.
  • (3) Dr Minx Marple (@MinxMarple) Seeing lots of poor news for the North East in my #npo stream.
  • (4) Obliging countries to cut carbon emissions beyond their national borders is fraught with political and practical difficulties, but this should not stop import-related emissions being taken into consideration in negotiations to cut emissions, Minx said.
  • (5) Jan Minx, an expert in environmental economics at the Stockholm Environment Institute at the University of York, said the study's system of attributing emissions - based on which country's consumption causes emissions rather than the country where the emissions are released - can help identify when international agreements to cut greenhouse gas emissions are being undermined.
  • (6) and its sister magazines, Just 17 (as it was then), Minx and Nova (and, in very different ways, Empire and Smash Hits) were my gospels during my pre-teen and early teen years.
  • (7) She can be gay, pathetic, lively, stunned - part minx, part poet, part sex-kitten.

Puppy


Definition:

  • (n.) The young of a canine animal, esp. of the common dog; a whelp.
  • (n.) A name of contemptuous reproach for a conceited and impertinent person.
  • (v. i.) To bring forth whelps; to pup.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Mr Bae stars in a popular drama, Winter Sonata, a tale of rekindled puppy love that has left many Japanese women hankering for an age when their own men were as sensitive and attentive as the Korean actor.
  • (2) In dogs the prevalence of Toxocara canis was noticeably greater in puppies (56.1%) than in mature animals (11.9%).
  • (3) CAV2 was not found in airways smooth muscles or nerves, nor in any noninflamed tissues of CAV2 puppies or in control animals.
  • (4) Four, 57 days old, African hunting dog puppies (Lycaon pictus) from one litter died within three weeks following vaccination with modified-live canine distemper virus (CDV) and killed canine adenovirus type 1, canine parvovirus and Leptospira icterohemorrhagiae and canicola.
  • (5) Puppies that were continuously on cardiopulmonary bypass had no significant pulmonary changes caused by increasing the inspired oxygen tension in the ventilator; however, striking changes were noted when limited cardiopulmonary bypass was employed for core cooling and total circulatory arrest combined with pulmonary ventilation with 100% oxygen.
  • (6) Right ventricular septomarginal trabeculae ('false-tendons') from puppies, young adult, and older adult dogs were examined by light and electron microscopy.
  • (7) Hypothermic circulatory arrest was used after surface cooling in 7 puppies (mean weight, 3.1 kg; range, 1.5 to 4.1 kg).
  • (8) The pattern of locomotion following a partial movement restraint was studied in five mongrel puppies.
  • (9) A canine model of anomalous choledochopancreatic ductal junction (APCDJ) was produced by choledochopancreatic end to side ductal anastomosis performed in 77 mongrel puppies weighing between 1.5 and 5 kg.
  • (10) Intra-epithelial lymphocyte numbers were lowest in 33- to 37-day-old puppies infected with greater than 127 T. canis and highest in 44- to 46-day-old puppies losing their infection.
  • (11) Allen announced a new comedy, Puppy Love, set in a dog training class, written by the creators of acclaimed Jo Brand sitcom Getting On.
  • (12) Inulin extraction (E(In)) remained constant during the first month of life and was the same in the new-born and adult dog suggesting that preglomerular shunting of plasma away from functioning nephrons was the same for both the puppy and adult dog.4.
  • (13) There was a substantial complications decrease in the first puppies, but do not stop at all contamination in the bile duct tree and liver.
  • (14) One thing she has to overcome is the perception that a young woman in the environmental movement is just a “puppy cuddler”, as she calls it.
  • (15) Twenty-three puppies with cranofacial and limb abnormalities from a family of Australian shepherd dogs were studied anatomically.
  • (16) But everyone knows that the scars of their 3-0 loss to the Americans in the 1930 World Cup are still fresh, so expect the Belgians to scamper around like puppies in a pile of bones play like men with the weight of the world on their shoulders tonight, and for the American Outlaws to be making pointed references to Uruguay 30 from the stands throughout.
  • (17) Posterior cricoarytenoid (PCA), thyroarytenoid (TA) and diaphragmatic activities were monitored in conscious puppies (13-43 days old) using chronically implanted electrodes.
  • (18) "These animals go on to die of gangrene or other secondary infections, sometimes leaving nursing puppies abandoned to fend for themselves."
  • (19) This study examined the effects and interactions evoked by various combinations of parasympathetic (P) and sympathetic (S) stimulations on sinus node automaticity and atrioventricular (AV) conduction (both anterograde and retrograde) in 11 two-mo old anesthetized puppies.
  • (20) In fact, the first things that strike you about the album are the soulful vocals of Sampha – whose voice does "hurt" better than a wounded puppy – and its deft, garage-inspired rhythms.