Bandog is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 108 anagrams from letters in bandog (abdgno).
First recorded in 1250-1300, bandog is from the Middle English word band-dogge. See band3, dog
But now I put thee out of door and set the bandog to guard it; thou art locked out though the door be wide open, seest thou?
A bandog, as the name imports, was a dog so fierce, as to require to be chained up.
In the neighbourhood of this ton or dun of Elbo there are persistent traditions of a spectral hound or bandog.
bandog, ban′dog, n. a dog tied up as a watch-dog, or because of its ferocity.
Had you been bitten with bandog fleas, as I have been, and haunted with the night Mare.
Mastin, a mastiue or bandog; a great country curre; also a rude, filthie, currish or cruell fellow.
bandog, a bailiff, or his followers; a sergeant, or his yeomen; also a fierce mastiff.