The name is a corruption of the Chippewa word uhnemoosh, which means "female dog."

The term "mastiff" was used primarily because it meant "large dog".

For example, the word 'dog' means dog simply because it does not mean cat, bird or cornflakes.

In Egypt, the pieces are referred to as kelb, meaning dog.

Their ethnonym in Mongolic literally means - dog.

In Cornish, Kai means "dog", and is often used as a dog name.

The name of the district and the town means "big dog" in Guaraní language.

Kalb (كلب) means dog in the Arabic language.

The name Kuripapango means "spotty dog" in the Māori language.

We derived the name from chichine, one of our words meaning dog.

At the farm, the mean dogs were off their chains, growling and snarling as they circled Tom, even after Ken called them off.

But his house has a lot of mean dogs.

Warner also has a mean dog named Rex who hates John and always agrees with his master.

Neither of us had any other kind of a weapon, except that I carried a long stick to chase off mean dogs, of which we'd met a-plenty.

The ones that burst close sounded like big, mean dogs barking:waugh!

I went in and told them to trot out the wildest, meanest, most difficult dog they had, one that nobody else wanted.

She put her hand out, but slowly, like she was letting a mean dog sniff it.

Then he caught himself and said that he was going to buy the meanest dog he could find and tie it out front.

"One of our lads keeps the meanest dogs you'd ever want to see."

"We're seeing a growing propensity to have mean dogs in an age when we're increasingly distrustful of law enforcement," Dr. Lockwood said.