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Meanings of pye-dog in English

Ownerless half-wild mongrel dog common around Asian villages especially India.

Usage of pye-dog in English
1
They had already changed themselves into dogs: village dogs, pye-dogs, perhaps dingos.
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2
Bébé learned to love even the pye-dogs which congregated under the huts, and would let him touch them.
Chatterbox, 1905.
3
Uncle Ferrers' Sikhs and Pathan soldiers called him that, because whenever he fought with the pye-dogs or other dogs, Boh always won.
Chatterbox, 1905.