Home › Words › M › merriganmerriganmerrigan means A surname from Irish.EtymologyAnglicized form of Irish Ó Muireagáin.nameA surname from Irish.nouna dog or dingoe.g.“1980, P. Pepper, You Are What You Make Yourself ’Course, they had the merrigarn with them—that’s their dingo.”Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.warrigal 65% match — A wild dingo. vs merrigan →weredingo 57% match — A shapeshifter who can assume the form of a dingo. vs merrigan →mulgara 56% match — A marsupial carnivore of the genus Dasycercus, closely related to the Tasmanian devil and the quolls. vs merrigan →deerhound 54% match — a dog, rather like a large greyhound, originally bred in Scotland for hunting deer vs merrigan →morkin 53% match — An animal that has died of disease or by mischance. vs merrigan →murri 53% match — A medieval Arab condiment made from fermented barley. vs merrigan →dingo 52% match — A wild dog native to Australia (Canis familiaris, Canis familiaris dingo, Canis dingo, or Canis lupus dingo). vs merrigan →bitzer 52% match — A mongrel dog. vs merrigan →