barking dogs seldom bite

dog, a domesticated canine.

(vulgar) inferior

dog bite

Stopping the breath.

elephant / the best of anything

blunted

(literary) like a lotus growing in a furnace.

a measure of grain equal to four manikas (మానిక) or one quarter of a toom (తూము). / the drum-like wooden hub of a cart through which the ends of the axle pass.

Cook Islands: a self-governing country in Oceania, in free association with New Zealand.