Meaning
A 'mawga dog' — a skinny, half-starved stray. Beyond the literal scrawny dog, it is a proverb figure: 'sorry fi mawga dawg, mawga dawg tun roun bite yuh' — pity the underdog and it may turn on you; kindness to the wretched is not always repaid.
Examples
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A maga dawg a roam di lane.
A skinny stray dog is roaming the lane.
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Sorry fi maga dawg, maga dawg tun roun bite yuh.
Pity the skinny dog and it turns to bite you.
A proverb on unrewarded pity.
Origin
'maga' (thin) + 'dawg'. See [[maaga]], [[dawg]].
How it’s used
A scrawny stray; central to the 'sorry fi maga dawg' proverb.