merrigan

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English

Etymology

From Wiradjuri mirrigan.

Noun

merrigan (plural merrigans)

  1. (Australian Aboriginal) a dog or dingo
    • 1980, P. Pepper, You Are What You Make Yourself
      ’Course, they had the merrigarn with them—that’s their dingo.
    • 1993, J. Janson, Gunjies
      Merrigans barkin’.

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