dingo-stiffener

A form of dingo stiffener — A person employed to kill dingos in order to eradicate them from a certain region.

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Meanings

noundingo-stiffener (plural dingo-stiffeners)

plural dingo-stiffeners

  1. AustraliaalternativeAlternative spelling of dingo stiffener.

    ‘What of transport?’ ‘That is the real problem, the killer of development. I solved it personally by buying three mangy old camels from a dingo-stiffener.’

    1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 217
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