pye-dog (p??dôg?, -d?g?)n. See pariah dog.[Perhaps from Hindi p?h?, peasant who lives in one village and cultivates land in another, from Hindi dialectal p?h, variant of Hindi p?s, nearby, from Prakrit p?sa-, passa-, side, from Sanskrit p?r?vam, side, from par?u?, rib; akin to Avestan p?r?su-, rib and Persian pahl?, side.]American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.pye-dog , pie-dog or pi-dogn (Animals) an ownerless half-wild Asian dog[C19: Anglo-Indian pye, paë, from Hindi p?h? outsider]Collins English Dictionary ? Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014pye-dog (?pa??d?g, -?d?g) n. an ownerless half-wild dog frequenting villages and towns, esp. in Asia. [1860?65; pye said to be