Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tin dog

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.99 in modern English

Syllables: tin -dog
IPA

8

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A noise-making device, often constructed ad hoc from materials to hand, used by a farmer to get sheep or cattle moving.

Australian usage

noun

Alternative form of tinned dog, a disparaging term for canned meat.

Australian usage

Example Sentences

"2005 October 30, Bruce Simpson, interviewed on Landline, Australian Broadcasting Commission, transcript, I was with the cattle on my own at that stage, and to get them going, I inserted a few stones in the quart pot and used that as a tin dog. It got the cattle moving."
"1993, Don Munday, Tin Dog, Damper and Dust, autobiography."

Etymology

From tin + dog.

Usage

Australian usage

Inflected Forms

tin dogs (plural)

Questions

What does tin dog mean?: A noise-making device, often constructed ad hoc from materials to hand, used by a farmer to get sheep or cattle moving.
Where does tin dog come from?: From tin + dog.

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