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dingo
noun- a cowardly, treacherous or despicable person AUSTRALIA, 1869
From “dingo” the Australian native dog, to which the attributes of cowardice and treachery have long been incorrectly applied by white people. - You’re a bit of a dingo yourself, aren’t you? — Wal Watkins, Race the Lazy River, p. 34, 1963
- On the other side of the road the police dogs barked and the two-legged dingos howled at the sight of Australia’s folk hero confronting them. — Frank Hardy, The Outcasts of Foolgarah, p. 231, 1971
- — Jim Ramsay, Cop It Sweet!, p. 29, 1977
- an Australian NEW ZEALAND
- — Sonya Plowman, Great Kiwi Slang, p. 58, 2002
▶ turn dingo on
to betray someone AUSTRALIA, 1945- Didn’t everybody know Chuck was a heel, that he would use his cunning to take a mean advantage of people until he was in their confidence and trusted by them absolutely, then would turn dingo on them and betray them without a qualm? — Vince Kelly, The Bogeyman, p. 5, 1956
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