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yellow-dog

yellow-dog is the alternative form of yellow dog.

Meaning of yellow dog

Noun

yellow dog (plural yellow dogs)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see yellow, dog.
  2. (Southern US, US, especially) A Carolina dog.
  3. (US, informal) An item or person of low value.
    • If I had a woman like that I'd trade her off for a yellow dog and then shoot the dog.1877, Charles White with Andrew J. Leavitt, The coming man: an Ethiopian sketch in two scenes, page 5

Forms of yellow-dog

pluralyellow-dogs

Questions about yellow-dog

What is yellow-dog the alternative form of?
Yellow-dog is the alternative form of yellow dog.

Words near yellow-dog in the dictionary

  1. yellow-crescent blister beetle
  2. yellow-crescent blister beetles
  3. yellow-crowned
  4. yellow-crowned bishop
  5. yellow-crowned bishops
  6. yellow-dog
  7. yellow-edged pygarctia
  8. yellow-edged pygarctias
  9. yellow-eye
  10. yellow-eyed babbler
  11. yellow-eyed babblers

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