A dingo is a wild dog of Australia: lean, often sandy or ginger, hunting on its own or in a small group. It is not a pet and not a wolf, though it looks like a tough village dog. Australians treat it as wildlife, and it turns up in films, quizzes, and the grim old line 'a dingo ate my baby.' You will rarely need the word outside Australia or nature talk. Though actually, English flipped the original idea: it was borrowed from Dharug, an Aboriginal language of the Sydney area, where dingu meant a tame or kept dingo — the 'wild dog' meaning is the English one.

澳洲野犬