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Westie

American  
[wes-tee] / ˈwɛs ti /

westie 1 British  
/ ˈwɛstɪ /

noun

  1. a young working-class person from the western suburbs of Sydney

  2. a young working-class person from the western suburbs of Auckland

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Westie 2 British  

noun

  1. informal a West Highland terrier

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Karen Cochran was immediately smitten by the tiny white Westie with dark eyes and pointy ears that she purchased from a woman in a Norco CVS parking lot in 2018.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2024

Cameron, now 71, lives in an adobe house up a mountain from downtown Santa Fe with a Westie named Lily.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 20, 2019

Barbara’s pet Westie loved to look out the window, and the toy dog sat in another window to look out, too.

From Washington Post • Jun. 17, 2016

In the early 1990s, Westie enrolled a mixture of African American, Latino, Haitian, and white students, according to Arvelo.

From Slate • Jun. 7, 2016

The back door had been left open all day so that her aging, coddled Westie, Gus, could relieve himself in the yard.

From New York Times • Oct. 22, 2014