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Definition: BANDOG |
BANDOGNoun1. A mastiff or other large and fierce dog, usually kept chained or tied up. |
Note: Bandog \Ban"dog`\, noun. [Band dog, i.e., bound dog.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Slang in 1811 | BANDOG. A bailiff or his follower; also a very fierce mastiff: likewise, a bandbox. CANT. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Safety | Watchdog, bandog; Cerberus; watchman, patrolman, policeman; cop, dick, fuzz, smokey, peeler, zarp; sentinel, sentry, scout; (warning); garrison; guardship. |
Warning | Watchtower, beacon, signal post; lighthouse; (indication of locality). sentinel, sentry; watch, watchman; watch and ward; watchdog, bandog, housedog; patrol, patrolman, vedette, picket, bivouac, scout, spy, spial; undercover agent, mole, plainclothesman; advanced guard, rear guard; lookout. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bandog | 108 |
bandog banter | 73 |
bandog breeders | 5 |
american bandog | 4 |
australian bandog | 4 |
bandog mastiff | 2 |
bandog board message | 2 |
bandog breeder | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "BANDOG"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | qen i egër (dhole). (various references) | |
Arabic | كلب يقيد لضراوته, الكلب المقيد. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | зло куче. (various references) | |
Hungarian | láncos kutya. (various references) | |
Indonesian | anjing terantai. (various references) | |
Italian | cane da guardia (watch dog, watchdog). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | andogbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | mastim (male, mastitis), cão bravo. (various references) | |
Romanian | câine rãu ţinut în lanţ. (various references) | |
Russian | цепная собака. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pas na lancu. (various references) | |
Spanish | sabueso (beagle, bloodhound, hound, sleuth, sleuthhound), perro de presa. (various references) | |
Swedish | bandhund (watchdog). (various references) | |
Turkish | bekçi köpeği (guard dog, watchdog), çoban köpeği (kelpie, sheepdog, shepherd's dog). (various references) | |
Ukranian | цепний пес. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | chó bị xích giống chó lớn tai cụp. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "BANDOG": bandogs. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-g-n-o" | |
-1 letter: bogan, donga, goban, gonad. | |
-2 letters: agon, band, bang, bond, bong, dago, dang, dona, dong, goad. | |
-3 letters: abo, ado, ago, and, bad, bag, ban, boa, bod, bog, dab, dag, dog, don, gab, gad, gan, goa, gob, god, nab, nag, nob, nod, nog. | |
-4 letters: ab, ad, ag, an, ba, bo, do, go, na, no, od, on. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-g-n-o" | |
+1 letter: aboding, bandogs, bondage, dogbane. | |
+2 letters: boarding, bondages, dogbanes, vagabond. | |
+3 letters: abounding, adsorbing, bandwagon, begroaned, boardings, brocading, signboard, vagabonds. | |
+4 letters: abandoning, absconding, background, bandwagons, blockading, boldfacing, bombarding, broadening, reboarding, signboards, tobogganed, vagabonded. | |
+5 letters: aboveground, backgrounds, badmouthing, beardtongue, becowarding, beshadowing, boomeranged, broadsiding, conglobated, diabolizing, diagnosable, fingerboard, keyboarding, outdebating, springboard, vagabondage, vagabonding, vagabondish, vagabondism. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 41 4E 44 4F 47 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .- -. -.. --- --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01000001 01001110 01000100 01001111 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B A N D O G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0041 004E 0044 004F 0047 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)363548384941 |
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