warrigal
Americannoun
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a dingo
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another word for brumby
adjective
Etymology
Origin of warrigal
First recorded in 1840–50, warrigal is from the Dharuk word wa-ri-gal wild dingo
Example Sentences
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The woman lives near a carpet python habitat and forages for native vegetation called warrigal greens to cook.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 28, 2023
There, facing him from the western lip of the gully, with a rather eager, curious, inviting sort of look upon her intelligent face, stood a fine, upstanding, red-brown female dingo, or warrigal.
From Finn The Wolfhound by Robert Hugh Buxton
If so, all pariahs should be classed with the Australian warrigal under the name of Canis dingo.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" by Various
Song of the Dead in the South—in the sun by their skeleton horses, Where the warrigal whimpers and bays through the dust of the sere river-courses.
From The Seven Seas by Rudyard Kipling
DINGO, a name applied apparently by Europeans to the warrigal, or native Australian dog, the Canis dingo of J. F. Blumenbach.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" by Various
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