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Dingo vs Jingo - What's the difference?

dingo | jingo |

As nouns the difference between dingo and jingo

is that dingo is subspecies: Canis lupus dingo , a wild dog native to Australia while jingo is one who supports policy favouring war.

dingo

English

(wikipedia dingo)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • , a wild dog native to Australia.

    • Derived terms

    * dry as a dead dingo’s donger

    Hypernyms

    * dog

    References

    , Australian Aboriginal Words'', Oxford University Press, 1990, ISBN 0-19-553099-3, pages 65 and 226.

    Anagrams

    * ----

    jingo

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • One who supports policy favouring war.
  • * 1897 June 19, (editor), ''Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz ,
    • The fact is that Mr. Roosevelt has always with perfect frankness confessed himself to be what is currently called a Jingo .
  • * 1908 , ,
    • He is the jingo of the universe; he will say, "My cosmos, right or wrong."
  • * 1995 , Bradford Perkins, The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations: The American Search for Opportunity, 1865–1913 ,
    • "We are all jingoes' now," the New York Sun wrote immediately after the 1898 war, "and the head ' jingo is the Hon. William McKinley."

    Derived terms

    * jingoism

    References

    * Spare me all the outrage and "pseudo jingo stuff" about Iran's imprisonment of our troops, said Peter Hitchens in The Mail on Sunday. – Iran frees sailors, The Week , 7 April 2007, Issue 608, page 5. ----