Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The hybrid offspring of a coyote and a dog.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun the offspring of a coyote and a dog.
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- noun a
hybrid between acoyote and aferal dog
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun offspring of a coyote and a dog
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It could be a number of things: a wolf-dog cross; a very unusual hybrid of a gray wolf and a coyote; a coydog, a coyote-dog cross; or a wolf from Minnesota or Wisconsin.
Archive 2006-12-01 2006
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Bud had a coydog that lived in chains in a ramshackle hut out back, part coyote, part alley mutt.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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Bud had a coydog that lived in chains in a ramshackle hut out back, part coyote, part alley mutt.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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Bud had a coydog that lived in chains in a ramshackle hut out back, part coyote, part alley mutt.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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The Ursans smelled like a cross between wet coydog and rancid fish.
The Silent Warrior Modesitt, L. E. 1987
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What I said coydog was as far as I'm concerned I'm not doing anything professional or journalistic RIGHT NOW.
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-- Posted by coydog on Mon, Mar 2, 2009, 4: 02 pm EST
yarb commented on the word coydog
Aproximately as appetising as a corndog.
November 13, 2007