pariah dog

British  

noun

1. another term for pye-dog

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Example Sentences

India’s pariah dog, the dominant street breed, is probably a descendant of an early Chinese immigrant, said Peter Savolainen, a professor of evolutionary genetics at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.

From New York Times • Aug. 7, 2012

A pariah dog would slink into the courtyard from time to time in search of a morsel of food.

From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan

So I put aside the memory of the little pariah dog and the gosling.

From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan

In the evening he returned, the man still following him like a pariah dog, to find the situation unaltered.

From The Knave of Diamonds by Dell, Ethel M. (Ethel May)

There is the tinkle of a cow-bell, the barking of a pariah dog, the monotonous dub-a-dub-dub of a timber-toned tom-tom, muffled and slightly mellowed by the distance.

From Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter by Inglis, James