English

Alternative forms

• Yellow Dog (especially the senses "Carolina dog" and "Yellow Dog Democrat")
• yaller dog, yallar dog

Noun

yellow dog ‎(plural yellow dogs)

1. Used other than as an idiom: see yellow,‎ dog.
2. (US, chiefly Southern US) A Carolina dog.
3. (US, informal) An item or person of low value.
   • 1877, Charles White; Andrew J. Leavitt, The coming man: an Ethiopian sketch in two scenes, page 5:

     If I had a woman like that I'd trade her off for a yellow dog and then shoot the dog.

   • 1897, John Jay Chapman, editor, The Political nursery, volume 1:10 - 4:10:

     A respectable class of candidates for minor state offices, and for state senate and assembly, at this moment desire to run on the ticket with Roosevelt. As soon as there is a third ticket in the field no one but a yellow dog will consent to run on Platt's ticket.

4. (US, politics, uncommon) Shortening of yellow dog Democrat.
   • 2011, William Earl Maxwell, Ernest Crain, Adolfo Santos, Texas Politics Today: 2011-2012 Edition, page 125:

     What led Rick Perry to pronounce the Yellow Dogs dead?

Related terms

• yellow dog contract
• Yellow Dog Democrat (yellow dog Democrat)
• yellow dog fund

See also

• Yellow-dog contract on Wikipedia.Wikipedia