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mastiffmas‧tiff /ˈmæstɪf/ (also bull mastiff) noun [countable]   mastiffOrigin: 1300-1400 Old French mastin, from Latin mansuetus ‘easy to handle, not wild’ - A bloody-mouthed mastiff tied by a chain to a lintel of a door snarled and barked.
- A longtime breeder of champion bull mastiffs, Einstein is a smart, able, take-no-prisoners type of gal.
- Ask not what bull mastiffs can do for you.
- He stepped over, pierced one of the raw chunks with his dagger and held it up before the mastiff.
- Johno is a 13-stone bull mastiff, Barry's the tiny border terrier.
- One Sunday, he went hunting with his fierce black mastiffs, stopping only to swig at a flask of strong drink.
- The city's pet-loving Bohemians are obsessed by the horrible death of a woman mauled by a mastiff.
- Two huge gaolers, with the bodies of apes and the faces of cruel mastiffs, padded silently behind them.
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