kaffir dog
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.31 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A type of hunting dog used by indigenous peoples in parts of southern Africa; (loosely), a mongrel dog.
Example Sentences
- "Did she see a half-starved Kaffir dog look in at her kitchen door or crawl trembling towards the dresser, it was not "Furtseck," or "Get out," that she would cry, but "What a shame to starve that poor thing so!" and a piece of bread or meat was sure to be offered."
- "A stray kaffir dog, his skeleton showing clear through tight skin, lay in the pit of blue shade outside the veranda."