merrigan

English

Alternative forms

• merrigarn

Etymology

From Wiradhuri 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’.

Anagrams

• rearming