| 释义 |
pye-dog, pie-dog orig. Anglo-Ind.|ˈpaɪdɒg|
Also pi-dog, and shortened pye.
[f. Anglo-Ind. pye, paë, Hindī pāhī outsider.]
An ownerless dog, a pariah-dog.
1864Daily Tel. 9 Aug., In India..pariahs, or ‘pye-dogs’ as they are called, wander all the land over ownerless. 1884Kipling Departm. Ditties (1886) (ed. 2) 52 Glare down old Hecate..And bid the pie-dog yell. 1886Yule & Burnell Hobson-Jobson, Pye, a familiar designation among British soldiers and young officers for a Paria-dog. 1904Brit. Med. Jrnl. 17 Sept. 665 In the corner of the hut was the usual small fire and a sleeping pye-dog. 1920Blackw. Mag. Oct. 525/2 Later still at night..would come droves of pi-dogs sweeping..through the compound. 1924Blackw. Mag. Sept. 355/1 The men of Bokkos and their dogs—the sorriest-looking pie-dogs in all Africa..go forth to get what they can. In a poor lot these Bokkos pies are the poorest. 1927Daily Express 30 May 7/5 They were hounds running with a good cry, not pi-dogs barking. 1940F. Stark Winter in Arabia 107 The Saint who is buried in the tomb below has pye-dogs who slink in to him at night. 1954M. K. Wilson tr. Lorenz's Man Meets Dog i. 14 There are lots of localities in the near East where Pie dogs and golden jackals abound, yet never intermingle. 1959Times 12 June 14/6 A mangy pi-dog shared his humble abode. 1972‘M. Renault’ Persian Boy xxii. 287 It was so quiet, you could hear..the pi-dogs bickering. 1977Times 25 June 15/5, I tied red, white and blue ribbons round the neck of my pye-dog. 1978J. Updike Coup (1979) i. 29 His woman whispered to me that he was a rascal without a tribe, who had never had so much as a pet pi-dog to his name. |