different between bandom vs bandog

English

Etymology

band +? -dom

Noun

bandom (uncountable)

1. The condition or quality of being a band.
   • 1998, John Robb, The Charlatans: We Are Rock, Ebury Press (1998), ?ISBN, unnumbered page:

     Forming out of a mutual love of the music the band were less of a gang of mates drifting into bandom than people fired by their interest in the music.

   • 2009, Colin Kincaid, "Off the Treadmill: Bouncing Souls", Reax, Issue 34, March 2009, page 26:

     The confines of traditional bandom, so long seen as the only way to do it, are falling away, allowing committed lifelong musicians the freedom to actually have some semblance of a life.

   • 2009, Iain Smith, "One is enough", Qmunicate, Issue 72, 23 November 2009, page 14:

     Hundred Reasons have had a tumultuous career, having been dropped by three different record labels in five years, twice during crucial stages of bandom, shortly following the release of their second album and again following their third.

Anagrams

• Bodman

English

Etymology

From band +? dog.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?band??/

Noun

bandog (plural bandogs)

1. (now rare) A dog that has been tied up; a mastiff or other kind of guard dog.
   • 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History

     Patriots may smile; and, using him [ Jean-Paul Marat ] as bandog now to be muzzled, now to be let bark....

   • 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 934:

     The guns on the fortress responded, but the small calibre made them sound as if they were yapping like bandogs while the bombers bayed and gave tongue like hounds in cry.

2. (specifically) A type of large, ferocious dog, bred by crossing American pit bull terriers with Neapolitan mastiffs.
3. (obsolete, slang, cant) A bailiff or prison guard.

Alternative forms

• band-dog

Translations

Anagrams

• Badong, Bogdan, dongba