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dingo
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Word definitions for dingo in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1789, Native Australian name, from Dharruk (language formerly spoken in the area of Sydney) /din-go/ "tame dog," though the English used it to describe wild Australian dogs. Bushmen continue to call the animal by the Dharruk term /warrigal/ "wild dog."
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
The dingo ( Canis lupus dingo ) is a wild dog found in Australia . Its exact ancestry is debated, but dingoes are generally believed to be descended from semi-domesticated dogs from East or South Asia, which returned to a wild lifestyle when introduced ...
Usage examples of dingo.
IF Ducky and Dingo expected Mart Kilgay to show tremors at mention of The Shadow, their guess was a bad one.
When Dingo had gone, Mart talked to Ducky, clipping his words with a harsh, confident tone.
While Ducky fumed with the hat and cloak, Dingo watched the courtyard.
Not only were there more koala bears than they could have imagined, there were dingos, kookaburras, kangaroos, and evena platypus.
Identify the therapist with the father, relive the original experience as an adult, and Dingo.
The trekkers ate, and tried to be oblivious of the abo signals, the uncanny bats, the howls of the dingoes and the unseen menace that hovered over this somber camp.
He would unpen the sheep, and the lurking dingoes, coming up from the creek to worry the lambs, would prove work for the dog.
Koalas, dingoes, kangaroos, and other marsupials huddled in the creek along with snakes and hares, emus, kiwis, and other birds.
Woolyan picked out the fine shinbone of a big dingo, and she rubbed it with sand from the bed of the creek until it was white and smooth, and she hid it in her hair, awaiting the time when she could catch Krubi alone.
Not only were there more koala bears than they could have imagined, there were dingos, kookaburras, kangaroos, and evena platypus.
Custer had to admit that a year or a century or a millennium of that would be better than keeling over and having dingos tear up your corpse and spread your bones over the uncaring sands.
We become the dingo, the eagle, the bush turkey, the one-one-one-eyed man, the man of beating stick-stick, the man who forages in nameless space.
I am the wife of my dear third, Mr. Badger, I still pursue those habits of observation which were formed during the lifetime of Captain Swosser and adapted to new and unexpected purposes during the lifetime of Professor Dingo.
Why did he not rise, and with him re-yard them, then gloatingly ask him where was the chinky crow by day, or sneaking dingo by night, that was any match for them, and then demand from his four-footed trusty mate the usual straightforward answer?
I've also given serious thought to being a Dingoes groupie for a while, too.