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

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 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

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)