Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A powerful dog, often a mastiff or part mastiff, bred to be a watchdog and traditionally kept chained.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large, fierce kind of dog, in England generally a mastiff, usually kept chained.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A mastiff or other large and fierce dog, usually kept chained or tied up.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
dog that has been tied up; amastiff or other kind ofguard dog . - noun Specifically, a type of large, ferocious dog bred by crossing American
pit bull terriers with Neapolitanmastiffs . - noun obsolete, slang, cant A
bailiff or prison guard.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The camp and all Christendom shall see that I know how to right myself, and whether I yield ground one inch to the English bandog. —
The Talisman 2008
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Each breed has its own distinct personality, and an independent breed like the dal will require stricter training than the disciplined bandog.
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This is why I believe there is quite a bit of difference between affenpinscher training and bandog training.
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The horsemen spreading themselves along the side of the cover, waited until the keeper entered, leading his bandog, a large blood-hound tied in a leam or band, from which he takes his name.
Waverley 2004
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Toil on, labour like a very bandog and let scholarment and all Malthusiasts go hang.
Ulysses 2003
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But all the rest heretofore remembered in this chapter there is none more ugly and odious in sight, cruel and fierce in deed, nor untractable in hand, than that which is begotten between the bear and the bandog.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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Toil on, labour like a very bandog and let scholarment and all
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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But now I put thee out of door and set the bandog to guard it; thou art locked out though the door be wide open, seest thou?
Days of the Discoverers L. Lamprey 1910
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But all the rest heretofore remembered in this chapter there is none more ugly and odious in sight, cruel and fierce in deed, nor untractable in hand, than that which is begotten between the bear and the bandog.
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He lived to know that the fulsome adulation of the pitiable bishops whom he had consecrated to serve his own ends could not drown one howl of the conscience which he had transformed into a bandog within him.
Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom 1831-1903 1895
jaime_d commented on the word bandog
From Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution
March 6, 2011