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vb. (alternative form of prairie dog English)
Usage examples of "prairie-dog".
The nearer they came the more angry and furious did the prairie-dogs become, until Dick Varley almost fell off his horse with suppressed laughter.
In short, the best naturalists have written some of their best pages in describing the associations of the prairie-dogs of America, the marmots of the Old World, and the polar marmots of the Alpine regions.
WAS DRIVING the land wag, cruising slowly up and down a checkerboard of little streets that wound around and twisted in on each other like a prairie-dog town.
She walked out when she saw me coming, skirting the chimps of prickly pear or the prairie-dog holes.
She walked out when she saw me coming, skirting the clumps of prickly pear or the prairie-dog holes.
I've been kinda hoping that the hits so far might generate a target of opportunity, but nobody's prairie-dogging yet.
The four men went north this morning, slowly through the prairie-dog town, then close to the interstate highway with its heavy truck traffic.
At first worshipped with dark rites by the prairie-dogs, who saw in it a deity sent from the upper world, it afterward fell into dire neglect as the race of simple, artless burrowers succumbed before the onslaught of the conquering Aryan.