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Definition of Pie-dog
1. Noun. Ownerless half-wild mongrel dog common around Asian villages especially India.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pie-dog
Literary usage of Pie-dog
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Stalk Abroad, Being Some Account of the Sport Obtained During a Two Years by Harold Frank Wallace (1908)
"The pie dog constituted the first figure of the trinity, ... The pie dog regarded
us with ill-concealed curiosity. ..."
2. Stalk Abroad, Being Some Account of the Sport Obtained During a Two Years by Harold Frank Wallace (1908)
"The pie dog constituted the first figure of the trinity, and a tin of Huntley
and Palmer's ... The pie dog regarded us with ill-concealed curiosity. ..."
3. Prehistoric Man and His Story: A Sketch of the History of Mankind from the by George Francis Scott Elliot (1915)
"Now, in India to-day, both jackals and the more or less domesticated pariah, or "
pie-dog," haunt the villages, and find their unpleasing food in middens ..."
4. The New York Times Current History (1917)
"An officer, apparently a German, exposed himself with the greatest daring, and
watchers were interested to see a yellow " pie dog," which ..."
5. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"Glare down, old Hecate, through the dust And bid the pie-dog yell; Draw from the
drain its typhoid germ— From each bazaar its smell; Yea, suck the fever ..."
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