merrigan

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  a dog or dingo
 * 2) * 1980, P. Pepper, You Are What You Make Yourself
 * ’Course, they had the merrigarn with them—that’s their dingo.
 * 1) * 1993, J. Janson, Gunjies
 * Merrigans barkin’.