English Dictionary

bandog

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈbandɒɡ/

名詞

古語 特定用法 比喩的用法 文語 廃用 俗語

(archaic) A dog that has been tied up; a mastiff or other kind of guard dog. / (specifically) A type of large, ferocious dog, bred by crossing American pit bull terriers with Neapolitan mastiffs.

日本語の意味

(古語) 縄や鎖で繋がれている犬、またはマスティフなどの護衛犬を指す。 / (特に) アメリカン・ピットブル・テリアとネアポリタン・マスティフを交配して得られた、大型で凶暴な犬の一種を指す。

The old bandog lay by the gate, its chain rattling softly as dusk fell.

古いつながれた犬が門のそばに横たわり、夕暮れになると鎖が静かにカラカラと鳴っていた。

意味（1）

(archaic) A dog that has been tied up; a mastiff or other kind of guard dog.

The horsemen spreading themselves along the side of the cover, waited untill the keeper entered, leading his ban-dog; a large blood-hound tied in a leam or band, from which he takes his name.

意味（2）

(specifically) A type of large, ferocious dog, bred by crossing American pit bull terriers with Neapolitan mastiffs.

意味（3）

(figuratively, literary) Anything that behaves like a bandog; something or someone who pursues doggedly.

He escaped from that experience confounded, horrified, and conscious of degradation. Those infernal bandogs of the law had treated him as a piece of insensate property to their drivelling mumbo-jumbo, as if mere contact with it had robbed him of all rights to the dignity and integrity of his own ego.

意味（4）

(obsolete, slang, cant) A bailiff or prison guard.

bandogs （ plural ）