pariah dog

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   ownerless half-wild mongrel dog common around Asian villages especially India

   Synonymspye-dogpie-dog

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Questions about pariah dog

What does pariah dog mean?

pariah dog means "ownerless half-wild mongrel dog common around Asian villages especially India".

What is another word for pariah dog?

Close synonyms include pye-dog, pie-dog. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pariah dog a common word?

pariah dog is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.