Dingo vs Jingo - What's the difference?
dingo | jingo |
, a wild dog native to Australia.
One who supports policy favouring war.
* 1897 June 19, (editor), ''Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz ,
* 1908 , ,
* 1995 , Bradford Perkins, The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations: The American Search for Opportunity, 1865–1913 ,
* 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.
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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)Derived terms
* dry as a dead dingo’s dongerHypernyms
* dogReferences
, Australian Aboriginal Words'', Oxford University Press, 1990, ISBN 0-19-553099-3, pages 65 and 226.Anagrams
* ----jingo
English
Noun
(es)- The fact is that Mr. Roosevelt has always with perfect frankness confessed himself to be what is currently called a Jingo .
- He is the jingo of the universe; he will say, "My cosmos, right or wrong."
- "We are all jingoes' now," the New York Sun wrote immediately after the 1898 war, "and the head ' jingo is the Hon. William McKinley."