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dingo

UK/ˈdɪŋɡəʊ/US/ˈdɪŋɡoʊ/
nounB2+Common in everyday speech and writing · #7,414 of 15,258neutral

Other forms: dingoes, dingos

A dingo is a wild yellowish dog found across Australia. A pack of dingoes, the dingo fence, dingoes howling.

It came with people thousands of years ago and then went wild, so it is neither a native animal nor a pet. Australia keeps a fence longer than the country is wide to hold dingoes off the sheep country.

Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0

Definitions of dingo

  1. 1noundingoA wild yellowish dog of Australia.B2+

    “A dingo crossed the track ahead of us and did not hurry.”

dingo is an animal.

Where it comes from

From dingu in the Dharug language of the Sydney region, where it meant a tame or camp dog.

  1. xdk

    dingu — tame or domesticated dingo

  2. English, today

    dingo

xdk dingu (“tame or domesticated dingo”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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dingo in the wild

  • The dingo is a lineage of dog found in Australia.

    Dingo

  • The oldest remains of dingoes discovered in Australia are around 3,500 years old.

    Dingo

  • In 2012, a fourth coroner's inquest found (as did the first inquest) that Azaria died "as a result of being attacked and taken by a dingo".

    Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton

  • After all legal options had been exhausted, the chance discovery in 1986 of Azaria's jacket in an area with numerous dingo lairs led to Lindy's release from prison.

    Death of Azaria Chamberlain

  • At a fourth inquest held on 12 June 2012, Coroner Elizabeth Morris delivered her findings that Azaria Chamberlain had been taken and killed by a dingo.

    Death of Azaria Chamberlain

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.