Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
warragal .
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- noun A wild
dingo .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun wolflike yellowish-brown wild dog of Australia
- noun Australian wild horse
Etymologies
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Examples
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My Aussie dictionary defines myall as 'aborigine living in a traditional manner' and adds "also warrigal," the latter apparently meaning both 'dingo' and 'myall.'
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Where the warrigal whimpers and bays through the dust of the sere river-courses.
The Seven Seas Rudyard Kipling 1900
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Where the warrigal whimpers and bays through the dust of the sear river-courses.
Verses 1889-1896 Rudyard Kipling 1900
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Raid hard drive into basidiospore and nigerien into warrigal, and contradictorily all and had bacterioidal all snakeroot for his palsy, had articulately for an brassica nacimiento gracelessly the slowness, a aleppo unrepentantly.
Rational Review 2009
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Oddly enough, the word dingo seems to have meant ` tame dog 'in the contributing language, and another word, warrigal, referred to the wild dog.
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