Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A wild dog (Canis dingo) of Australia, having a reddish-brown or yellowish-brown coat.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The Australian dog, Canis dingo, of wolf-like appearance and extremely fierce. The ears are short and erect, the tail is rather bushy, and the hair is of a reddish-dun color. It is very destructive to flocks, and is systematically destroyed. See cut on following page.
Wiktionary
- n. Canis lupus dingo, a wild dog native to Australia.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) A wild dog found in Australia, but supposed to have introduced at a very early period. It has a wolflike face, bushy tail, and a reddish brown color.
WordNet 3.0
- n. wolflike yellowish-brown wild dog of Australia
Etymologies
- From Dharug dingu ("tame dingo"). (Wiktionary)
- Dharuk diŋgu. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Description: The dingo is a declared pest in most states of Australia, and livestock farmers are obliged to cull them.”
“Oddly enough, the word dingo seems to have meant ` tame dog 'in the contributing language, and another word, warrigal, referred to the wild dog.”
“Dogs on the whole are favorably regarded; the associations developed around the word dingo are uniformly pejorative.”
“Early settlers sometimes talked of native dogs or wild dogs, but the name dingo was established from early settlement.”
“For of all animals in Australia the dingo is the most intolerable nuisance on account of its fondness for mutton.”
“The ancestors of the Aborigines were lucky enough to find their way south, where there is more vegetation, and the dingo is a skillful hunter, able to look after itself.”
“The disappearance of 9-week-old Azaria Chamberlain on Aug. 17, 1980, from a campsite near Ayers Rock, the red monolith in the Australian desert now known but it Aboriginal name Uluru, divided Australians between those who believed a native dog known as a dingo killed her and those who believed she was murdered by her mother, Lindy Chamberlain.”
“The disappearance of 9-week-old Azaria Chamberlain in 1980 divided Australians between those who believed a native dog known as a dingo killed her and those who believed she was murdered by her mother.”
“The disappearance of 9-week-old Azaria Chamberlain on Aug. 17, 1980, from a campsite near Ayers Rock, the red monolith in the Australian desert now known by its Aboriginal name Uluru, divided Australians between those who believed a native dog known as a dingo killed her and those who believed she was murdered by her mother, Lindy Chamberlain.”
“My Aussie dictionary defines myall as 'aborigine living in a traditional manner' and adds "also warrigal," the latter apparently meaning both 'dingo' and 'myall.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dingo’.
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Brand Theft Auto
A marque list for cars--models or companies who've used common words as their name.
explorer, navigator, frontier, mustang, quest, cougar, sidekick, legend, legacy, ranger, voyager, civic and 266 more...
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henryar's list
marmoleum, menagerie, cyan, ochre, pilfer, discombobulate, loquacious, iridescent, amethyst, derelict, botulism, equilibrium and 240 more...
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MANY A WORD!
This is just a list, right, that I'm gonna, like, fill with words, that, like, are every word that I can, like, think of with, ahhmm, my brain.
and, able, art, ass, algebra, amp, ankle, booze, bong, aura, bling, bright and 134 more...
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Australasian mammals
Australasian mammals, monotremes, anteater, duckbill, echidna, giant anteater, ornithorhynchus, platypus, porcupine, water mole, carnivorous marsu..., banded anteater and 220 more...
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Bonkers
List for old and new terms and phrases meaning crazy, nuts, batty, prone to extreme nervousness, etc.
bonkers, crazy, nuts, batty, batchy, bats in the belfry, scatty, crackers, windy, gone crackers, cracked, dingo and 92 more...
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dogs and their relatives
dog dogs and more dogs anything
I can think of ,canids and their
relatives
my favourite African wild dog
all have 42 teethaffenpinscher, akita, alan, aland, alant, alopecoid, apso, bandog, barbet, basenji, basset, bawtie and 355 more...
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As many reasons as we can think of to...
in the words of blues clues...
WE GOTTA THINK, THINK, THINK....maori, aboriginie, robbie deans!, anzac's, kiwi, dingo, kangaroo, we are awesome, tuatara, sky tower, sydney opera house, all blacks and 11 more...
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LWC's Words
spork, heteroskedasticity, kurtosis, eigenspace, smithian, skewness, montanan, whoremonger, mellifluous, fishwife, papist, romanist and 142 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Malachi_Constant's Words
triumverate, pandemic, parsnip, delineate, zamboni, parka, laser, swoop, malevolent, benevolent, fracas, tipsy and 372 more...
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schinders's Words
persiflage, preterition, quidnunc, finick, termagant, otiose, magniloquent, weltschmerz, schadenfreude, piehole, malevolent, susurrus and 132 more...
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Dain's Words
rabble, terminus, archaic, atavism, demiurge, waylay, syzygy, jocoserious, quark, entropy, cinnabar, shamble and 912 more...
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Hedgepiglet
Words for things both tangible and nonanthropic
rorqual, vellus, wrasse, rainbow bee-eater, tinkershire, lemonquat, boomslang, tufted vetch, cubeb, nipplefruit, madapple, wad and 447 more...
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MIX DES CULTURES
french words & english ones
des mots français & d'autres anglaisà gogo, tchétchène, faciès, déviant, gamin, superette, grigri, diantre, in jeopardy, syncope, primrose, menthe and 92 more...
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Australian Fauna
endemic species of terra australis
phascogale, wombat, ornithoryncus, wambenger, tuan, potoroo, platypus, echidna, bilby, bandicoot, antechinus, numbat and 101 more...
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originally started as an attempt to collect words I found visually and auditorially beautiful, as well as psychically evocative, this has become nothing more than a grab bag of word curiosities, a ...
bergamot, jambalaya, bee's knees, heliotrope, hosanna, gamboge, aureole, filial, madrigal, multilingual, sacrosanct, sojourn and 1072 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for dingo.
strev Hasselhoff is the current Dingo poster boy! Apr 16, 2009
sionnach What? David Hasselhoff is Australian?
Well, bootstrap my bunyips! Who knew? Apr 9, 2009
strev Dingo was recently presented by a GQ staff writer as the male equivalent of a "cougar."
Apr 9, 2009
trivet I can't think dingo without muttering scraps of The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo. Dec 3, 2008
chained_bear :) *sigh* Hope I don't die before I get back there... Dec 3, 2008
sarra Made me smile too. Dec 3, 2008
plethora Haha! Dec 3, 2008
bilby Dingo is very Australian.
Thommo: Jegoda footy Saddy?
Jacko: Nar, dingo. Dec 3, 2008
dharma66 as in "A dingo ate my baby!!" Oct 20, 2008