Komondor

[kom-uhn-dawr]

noun

plural

Komondors, Komondorok 

1. one of a Hungarian breed of large dogs having a long, matted, white coat, used for herding sheep and as a watchdog.

komondor

/ ˈkɒmənˌdɔː /

noun

1. a large powerful dog of an ancient Hungarian breed, originally used for sheep herding. It has a very long white coat that hangs in woolly or matted locks

Word History and Origins

Origin of komondor¹

From Hungarian, dating back to 1930–35, allegedly after a Turkic tribal name

Example Sentences

It has great breeds like the Alaskan malamute, the great Dane, the delightfully-entitled Dogue de Bordeaux, and the Komondor, which is the one that looks like a giant ambulatory mop.

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Thus, we not only read about Hira, Towne’s famously hirsute, jumbo-sized, Hungarian Komondor, acquired as a guard dog in the wake of the Manson murders, but also Scylla, the Komondor that preceded him but was deemed insufficiently fierce.

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There was only one komondor entered, so she was an automatic winner.

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I particularly liked a Samoyed named Letty, who was enjoying a nap; a Hungarian Vizsla named Judit, who licked all over my face, and Barry, a komondor, who, if I am being honest, was obscured by so much heavy, ropelike, dreadlock-y hair that it was hard to get a sense of his personality, other than that he did not seem embarrassed to look like a giant industrial mop.

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This komondor isn’t even the front-runner.

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