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pariah dog

British  

noun

  1. another term for pye-dog

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

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

From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan

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

There did not seem to be so much as a pariah dog outside.

From The Story of Sonny Sahib by Sara Jeannette Duncan

They call him lion; a more fitting name would be pariah dog.

From Barclay of the Guides by Herbert Strang

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