dingon.

Brit.

/ˈdɪŋɡəʊ/, U.S.

/ˈdɪŋɡoʊ/, Australian English

/ˈdɪŋɡoʊ/

Inflections: Plural dingoes, dingos.

Origin: A borrowing from Dharuk. Etymon: Dharuk diŋgu.

Etymology: < Dharuk (Sydney region) diŋgu. Compare the following earlier passages, citing the Dharuk word in English contexts:1788 N. Fowell Let. 12 July in Sirius Lett. (1988) ix. 93 They have a number of Dogs belonging to them which they call Tingo.1789 W. Tench Narr. Exped. Botany Bay xi. 83 The only domestic animal they [sc. Aboriginal people] have is the dog, which in their language is called Dingo.

1. A wild or partly domesticated dog with a reddish or sandy coat, of a distinctive type found in mainland Australia, Canis lupus dingo. In later use also: a wild or feral dog belonging to any of various populations found in New Guinea and elsewhere, believed to be of the same genetic type.Dingoes are closely related to domestic dogs, and have been present in Australia for at least 3500 years, possibly introduced by seafarers from south-east Asia. Since the arrival of European colonists in Australia they have often been hunted or subject to other population control measures in order to protect livestock.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > [noun] > genus Canis > canis dingo (dingo)

dingo1790

warrigal1838

1790 Nat. Hist. in J. White Jrnl. Voy. New S. Wales 280 A Dingo, or Dog, of New South Wales.

1852 G. C. Mundy Our Antipodes I. x. 313 The dingo, warragal, or native dog, does not hunt in packs.

1884 Illustr. Sydney News 26 Aug. 5/3 The..sundowners..are becoming as rare as the dingoes.

1937 West Australian (Perth) 6 May 17/3 He was forwarding three scalps of dingos caught in the board's area.

1962 D. Stewart Rutherford & other Poems 34 Oh what's your price for all that country Wild as a dingo, fresh as a brumby?

2009 BioScience 59 467/1 In Australian wilderness areas where dingoes are not persecuted, they live in stable packs like those formed by Asian dingoes or North American wolves.

2. Australian colloquial. A treacherous, cowardly, unscrupulous, or objectionable person.Arising from the popular association of such characteristics with dingoes.

ΚΠ

1869 ‘E. Howe’ Boy in Bush i. 2 He [sc. a bushranger] may well call himself Warrigal, the sneaking dingo!

1928 ‘Brent of Bin Bin’ Up Country xvi. 182 The bitch has twice the guts of the old dingo.

1941 K. Tennant Battlers viii. 90 The bagmen are a mob of dingoes.

1948 V. Palmer Golconda xxxi. 261 I'd be a hell of a dingo..if I didn't help you now.

1978 B. St. A. Smith Spirit beyond Psyche 49 He's not a dinkum RSL man, he's just a yellow, gutless, dingo cur.

2005 Gold Coast Bull. 18 July 16/3 Since when has it been a crime for an elected representative to tell the truth to her citizens. How absurd the shenanigans of these dingos putting the bite on someone for being honest.

Compounds

C1.

a. General use as a modifier (in sense 1), as in dingo hunt, dingo pack, dingo trap, etc.

ΚΠ

1845 C. Hodgkinson Austral., Port Macquarie to Moreton Bay iv. 202 (heading) Dingo hunt.

1898 Western Champion (Barcaldine, Queensland) 11 Jan. 2/2 Dingo scalps to the number of 2042 have been received and paid for.

1911 L. St. C. Grondona Collar & Cuffs 51 The poor unfortunate turkey had been caught in a dingo trap.

1948 Western Star (Roma, Queensland) 8 Oct. Sixteen shooters and beaters engaged in a dingo hunt last Monday.

2006 K. Stafford Welfare of Dogs i. 9 The pack structure of feral dogs may lack the social cohesion seen in dingo packs.

b. With agent nouns and verbal nouns, forming compounds in which dingo expresses the object of the underlying verb, as in dingo hunter, dingo hunting, dingo shooting, dingo trapper, etc.

ΚΠ

1852 People's Advocate (Sydney) 2 Oct. 4/2 John is..beginning to study the materialism of spiritual things in lieu of horse racing, dingo hunting, [etc.].

1863 Bell's Life in Sydney 21 Feb. 3/2 [He] topped the..high palisading fence, in a style that would warm the heart of a keen dingo hunter.

1910 W. P. Westell Bk. Animal Kingdom: Mammals x. 180 Dingo trappers are employed to keep the Wild Dog in check.

2001 Cairns (Queensland) Post 9 May 9/3 I think dingo shooting should be banned.

C2.

dingo fence n. a fence designed to keep out dingoes.Sometimes (with the and now usually with capital initials) spec. denoting one such fence erected in the 1880s to protect livestock in southern Queensland, extending 3,488 miles (see quot. 1983).

ΚΠ

1893 Geelong Advertiser (Victoria, Austral.) 2 Nov. A dingo fence of sloping logs remains round some of the run.

1983 Open Road Aug. 19/1 The world's longest fence—the dingo fence—stretches from the Gulf of Carpentaria to the Indian Ocean.

2020 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 8 Mar. (Escape section) 12 If you travel with kids, consider staying in one of the campgrounds with a dingo fence.

dingo-proof adj. secure against dingoes; esp. (of fencing, netting, etc.) effective in preventing dingoes from gaining access to an area.In quot. 1873: able to withstand an attack by a dingo.

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the world > action or operation > safety > [adjective] > safe or invulnerable > specific

pistol-proof1590

sword-proofa1593

fireproof1610

plot proofa1616

shot-free1616

stick-free1632

armour-proof1635

water-free1642

sting-free1644

iron-free1670

bomb-proof1702

ball-proof1759

bear-proof1840

bullet-proof1856

dingo-proof1873

aseismic1884

tamperproof1886

radioresistant1922

tamper-resistant1978

1873 Sydney Mail 8 Feb. 169/2 The tails of living cattle are anything but dingo proof.

1887 Australasian (Melbourne) 23 Apr. 778/3 Some dingo-proof fencing had also to be put up.

2000 Newcastle (New S. Wales) Herald (Nexis) 23 Aug. 33 Always make sure your food is secure. ‘You have to make the storage..dingo-proof. Otherwise you lose your tucker.’

2016 NewsMail & Rural Weekly (Bundaberg, Queensland) (Nexis) 20 Oct. 6 Several areas on Fraser Island, including camp grounds, townships and resorts, currently have dingo-proof fences and grids.

dingo's breakfast n. Australian colloquial (humorous) no breakfast; a short sequence of activities as a replacement for breakfast, including urinating, having a quick look around, stretching, yawning, etc.

ΚΠ

1965 K. McKenney Hide-Away Man 101 ‘Here's yer dinner’ he said, adding with a wink ‘I already had me breakfast.’ ‘What was that?’ ‘Dingo's breakfast. A piss and a look around.’

2017 Townsville (Queensland) Bull. (Nexis) 24 June 10 Rise and shine at 6am. A dingo's breakfast and into the car for a non-stop four-hour drive to Hughenden... Coffee and eats in town and then south..for the races.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

dingov.

Brit.

/ˈdɪŋɡəʊ/, U.S.

/ˈdɪŋɡoʊ/, Australian English

/ˈdɪŋɡoʊ/

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: dingo n.

Etymology: < dingo n. (compare sense 2 at that entry). With sense 1b compare earlier dog v.¹ 8b.

Australian colloquial.

a. transitive with it. To act in a cowardly or treacherous manner; to back out of an agreement, situation, etc. Later also intransitive.

ΚΠ

1925 Sydney Sportsman 23 June 6/3 Bill dingoed it in the race, however, and once more proved that unless he can have matters the way the doctor ordered, he's not worth the proverbial bob.

1935 Bulletin (Sydney) 29 May p. ii/4 I gave him a rather hot time for the first half; in the second round he ‘dingoed’, letting us through repeatedly, much to his team-mates' disgust.

1952 J. Cleary Sundowners iii. 186 You ain't dingoing it, are you? You can't toss in the towel now.

1981 L. McLean Pumpkin Pie 24 Habbie could have outrun him, but had been taught never to ‘dingo’ it and would stand and fight.

2015 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 1 Dec. The Labor Party has dingoed and won't be standing.

b. transitive. To back out of or abandon (something) in a cowardly or treacherous manner; to shirk (a responsibility or obligation).

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > abstain or refrain from (action) [verb (transitive)] > avoid or shun > avoid (duty, work, or exertion)

shoot1543

scuff1595

to shuffle off1604

shirk1785

funk1834

gold-brick1918

dingo1930

squib1934

skate1945

the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > abstain or refrain from (action) [verb (transitive)] > avoid or shun > turn aside from

swerve1390

to depart from1535

to turn tail1624

nesh1881

dingo1930

1930 Labor Daily (Sydney) 23 May (Late ed.) 2/8 Allow me to express my opinion on the coal trouble. There is no doubt we have put up a good fight. But I am sorry to say we have ‘dingoed’ the issue.

1952 J. Cleary Sundowners iii. x. 194 I don't think he's dingoing the race.

2009 Mercury (Hobart, Austral.) (Nexis) 3 Aug. 15 The Government..has dingoed its responsibility and sold out a citizen, cancelling or confiscating his passport in his hour of need, even though he had not been charged with any crime.

c. intransitive with on. To back out of a specified agreement, etc.; to shirk a specified obligation, etc.

ΚΠ

1934 Evening News (Rockhampton, Queensland) 21 Dec. 8/5 I can only hope and trust that Miss Harris will..not high hat me when we next meet, on account of having first promised to go to the Scout evening..and then..turned round and ‘dingoed’ on the job.

1940 Truth (Brisbane) 1 Sept. 2/3 Dingoed On It... If Sir Corban ever sits up and barks like a dog, it won't come as a surprise to the many who backed the Corban gelding to hot favoritism in yesterday's Purse at Albion Park. He revealed real canine instincts in shirking the issue from the half-mile.

1990 Canberra Times 23 Sept. 25/3 Some large Australian commercial publishers..have dingoed on any obligation to produce works that analyse literature and literary culture here.

2006 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 15 May (Business section) 19 The Government has dingoed on the plan to phase in sensible road-user charges for heavy vehicles.

2. intransitive. With on. To betray, let down, or inform on a person.

ΚΠ

1930 Evening News (Rockhampton, Queensland) 7 Apr. 8/3 There is a suggestion that some of the boys ‘dingoed’ on their comrades.

1968 S. Gore Holy Smoke vi. 54 He tells them..what sort of a standover merchant his God could turn out when a bloke tries to dingo on him.

1999 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 4 Feb. (Late ed.) 3 They've dingoed on us... The ABC's word is clearly no longer its bond. It's an appalling breach of faith with staff.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	dingo
释义	dingon. Brit. /ˈdɪŋɡəʊ/, U.S. /ˈdɪŋɡoʊ/, Australian English /ˈdɪŋɡoʊ/ Inflections: Plural dingoes, dingos. Origin: A borrowing from Dharuk. Etymon: Dharuk diŋgu. Etymology: < Dharuk (Sydney region) diŋgu. Compare the following earlier passages, citing the Dharuk word in English contexts:1788 N. Fowell Let. 12 July in Sirius Lett. (1988) ix. 93 They have a number of Dogs belonging to them which they call Tingo.1789 W. Tench Narr. Exped. Botany Bay xi. 83 The only domestic animal they [sc. Aboriginal people] have is the dog, which in their language is called Dingo. 1. A wild or partly domesticated dog with a reddish or sandy coat, of a distinctive type found in mainland Australia, Canis lupus dingo. In later use also: a wild or feral dog belonging to any of various populations found in New Guinea and elsewhere, believed to be of the same genetic type.Dingoes are closely related to domestic dogs, and have been present in Australia for at least 3500 years, possibly introduced by seafarers from south-east Asia. Since the arrival of European colonists in Australia they have often been hunted or subject to other population control measures in order to protect livestock. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > [noun] > genus Canis > canis dingo (dingo) dingo1790 warrigal1838 1790 Nat. Hist. in J. White Jrnl. Voy. New S. Wales 280 A Dingo, or Dog, of New South Wales. 1852 G. C. Mundy Our Antipodes I. x. 313 The dingo, warragal, or native dog, does not hunt in packs. 1884 Illustr. Sydney News 26 Aug. 5/3 The..sundowners..are becoming as rare as the dingoes. 1937 West Australian (Perth) 6 May 17/3 He was forwarding three scalps of dingos caught in the board's area. 1962 D. Stewart Rutherford & other Poems 34 Oh what's your price for all that country Wild as a dingo, fresh as a brumby? 2009 BioScience 59 467/1 In Australian wilderness areas where dingoes are not persecuted, they live in stable packs like those formed by Asian dingoes or North American wolves. 2. Australian colloquial. A treacherous, cowardly, unscrupulous, or objectionable person.Arising from the popular association of such characteristics with dingoes. ΚΠ 1869 ‘E. Howe’ Boy in Bush i. 2 He [sc. a bushranger] may well call himself Warrigal, the sneaking dingo! 1928 ‘Brent of Bin Bin’ Up Country xvi. 182 The bitch has twice the guts of the old dingo. 1941 K. Tennant Battlers viii. 90 The bagmen are a mob of dingoes. 1948 V. Palmer Golconda xxxi. 261 I'd be a hell of a dingo..if I didn't help you now. 1978 B. St. A. Smith Spirit beyond Psyche 49 He's not a dinkum RSL man, he's just a yellow, gutless, dingo cur. 2005 Gold Coast Bull. 18 July 16/3 Since when has it been a crime for an elected representative to tell the truth to her citizens. How absurd the shenanigans of these dingos putting the bite on someone for being honest. Compounds C1. a. General use as a modifier (in sense 1), as in dingo hunt, dingo pack, dingo trap, etc. ΚΠ 1845 C. Hodgkinson Austral., Port Macquarie to Moreton Bay iv. 202 (heading) Dingo hunt. 1898 Western Champion (Barcaldine, Queensland) 11 Jan. 2/2 Dingo scalps to the number of 2042 have been received and paid for. 1911 L. St. C. Grondona Collar & Cuffs 51 The poor unfortunate turkey had been caught in a dingo trap. 1948 Western Star (Roma, Queensland) 8 Oct. Sixteen shooters and beaters engaged in a dingo hunt last Monday. 2006 K. Stafford Welfare of Dogs i. 9 The pack structure of feral dogs may lack the social cohesion seen in dingo packs. b. With agent nouns and verbal nouns, forming compounds in which dingo expresses the object of the underlying verb, as in dingo hunter, dingo hunting, dingo shooting, dingo trapper, etc. ΚΠ 1852 People's Advocate (Sydney) 2 Oct. 4/2 John is..beginning to study the materialism of spiritual things in lieu of horse racing, dingo hunting, [etc.]. 1863 Bell's Life in Sydney 21 Feb. 3/2 [He] topped the..high palisading fence, in a style that would warm the heart of a keen dingo hunter. 1910 W. P. Westell Bk. Animal Kingdom: Mammals x. 180 Dingo trappers are employed to keep the Wild Dog in check. 2001 Cairns (Queensland) Post 9 May 9/3 I think dingo shooting should be banned. C2. dingo fence n. a fence designed to keep out dingoes.Sometimes (with the and now usually with capital initials) spec. denoting one such fence erected in the 1880s to protect livestock in southern Queensland, extending 3,488 miles (see quot. 1983). ΚΠ 1893 Geelong Advertiser (Victoria, Austral.) 2 Nov. A dingo fence of sloping logs remains round some of the run. 1983 Open Road Aug. 19/1 The world's longest fence—the dingo fence—stretches from the Gulf of Carpentaria to the Indian Ocean. 2020 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 8 Mar. (Escape section) 12 If you travel with kids, consider staying in one of the campgrounds with a dingo fence. dingo-proof adj. secure against dingoes; esp. (of fencing, netting, etc.) effective in preventing dingoes from gaining access to an area.In quot. 1873: able to withstand an attack by a dingo. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > [adjective] > safe or invulnerable > specific pistol-proof1590 sword-proofa1593 fireproof1610 plot proofa1616 shot-free1616 stick-free1632 armour-proof1635 water-free1642 sting-free1644 iron-free1670 bomb-proof1702 ball-proof1759 bear-proof1840 bullet-proof1856 dingo-proof1873 aseismic1884 tamperproof1886 radioresistant1922 tamper-resistant1978 1873 Sydney Mail 8 Feb. 169/2 The tails of living cattle are anything but dingo proof. 1887 Australasian (Melbourne) 23 Apr. 778/3 Some dingo-proof fencing had also to be put up. 2000 Newcastle (New S. Wales) Herald (Nexis) 23 Aug. 33 Always make sure your food is secure. ‘You have to make the storage..dingo-proof. Otherwise you lose your tucker.’ 2016 NewsMail & Rural Weekly (Bundaberg, Queensland) (Nexis) 20 Oct. 6 Several areas on Fraser Island, including camp grounds, townships and resorts, currently have dingo-proof fences and grids. dingo's breakfast n. Australian colloquial (humorous) no breakfast; a short sequence of activities as a replacement for breakfast, including urinating, having a quick look around, stretching, yawning, etc. ΚΠ 1965 K. McKenney Hide-Away Man 101 ‘Here's yer dinner’ he said, adding with a wink ‘I already had me breakfast.’ ‘What was that?’ ‘Dingo's breakfast. A piss and a look around.’ 2017 Townsville (Queensland) Bull. (Nexis) 24 June 10 Rise and shine at 6am. A dingo's breakfast and into the car for a non-stop four-hour drive to Hughenden... Coffee and eats in town and then south..for the races. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online June 2022). dingov. Brit. /ˈdɪŋɡəʊ/, U.S. /ˈdɪŋɡoʊ/, Australian English /ˈdɪŋɡoʊ/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: dingo n. Etymology: < dingo n. (compare sense 2 at that entry). With sense 1b compare earlier dog v.¹ 8b. Australian colloquial. 1. a. transitive with it. To act in a cowardly or treacherous manner; to back out of an agreement, situation, etc. Later also intransitive. ΚΠ 1925 Sydney Sportsman 23 June 6/3 Bill dingoed it in the race, however, and once more proved that unless he can have matters the way the doctor ordered, he's not worth the proverbial bob. 1935 Bulletin (Sydney) 29 May p. ii/4 I gave him a rather hot time for the first half; in the second round he ‘dingoed’, letting us through repeatedly, much to his team-mates' disgust. 1952 J. Cleary Sundowners iii. 186 You ain't dingoing it, are you? You can't toss in the towel now. 1981 L. McLean Pumpkin Pie 24 Habbie could have outrun him, but had been taught never to ‘dingo’ it and would stand and fight. 2015 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 1 Dec. The Labor Party has dingoed and won't be standing. b. transitive. To back out of or abandon (something) in a cowardly or treacherous manner; to shirk (a responsibility or obligation). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > abstain or refrain from (action) [verb (transitive)] > avoid or shun > avoid (duty, work, or exertion) shoot1543 scuff1595 to shuffle off1604 shirk1785 funk1834 gold-brick1918 dingo1930 squib1934 skate1945 the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > abstain or refrain from (action) [verb (transitive)] > avoid or shun > turn aside from swerve1390 to depart from1535 to turn tail1624 nesh1881 dingo1930 1930 Labor Daily (Sydney) 23 May (Late ed.) 2/8 Allow me to express my opinion on the coal trouble. There is no doubt we have put up a good fight. But I am sorry to say we have ‘dingoed’ the issue. 1952 J. Cleary Sundowners iii. x. 194 I don't think he's dingoing the race. 2009 Mercury (Hobart, Austral.) (Nexis) 3 Aug. 15 The Government..has dingoed its responsibility and sold out a citizen, cancelling or confiscating his passport in his hour of need, even though he had not been charged with any crime. c. intransitive with on. To back out of a specified agreement, etc.; to shirk a specified obligation, etc. ΚΠ 1934 Evening News (Rockhampton, Queensland) 21 Dec. 8/5 I can only hope and trust that Miss Harris will..not high hat me when we next meet, on account of having first promised to go to the Scout evening..and then..turned round and ‘dingoed’ on the job. 1940 Truth (Brisbane) 1 Sept. 2/3 Dingoed On It... If Sir Corban ever sits up and barks like a dog, it won't come as a surprise to the many who backed the Corban gelding to hot favoritism in yesterday's Purse at Albion Park. He revealed real canine instincts in shirking the issue from the half-mile. 1990 Canberra Times 23 Sept. 25/3 Some large Australian commercial publishers..have dingoed on any obligation to produce works that analyse literature and literary culture here. 2006 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 15 May (Business section) 19 The Government has dingoed on the plan to phase in sensible road-user charges for heavy vehicles. 2. intransitive. With on. To betray, let down, or inform on a person. ΚΠ 1930 Evening News (Rockhampton, Queensland) 7 Apr. 8/3 There is a suggestion that some of the boys ‘dingoed’ on their comrades. 1968 S. Gore Holy Smoke vi. 54 He tells them..what sort of a standover merchant his God could turn out when a bloke tries to dingo on him. 1999 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 4 Feb. (Late ed.) 3 They've dingoed on us... The ABC's word is clearly no longer its bond. It's an appalling breach of faith with staff. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1790v.1925
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