rark up
v. phr.— «They were supposed to come galloping out of a wood shed (on a long rope) and bark viciously at the approaching gang of people. I was in the woodshed rarking them up, but they run out half-barking, decide there wasn’t any danger, so come back into the shed wagging tails.» —“Funny dog story” by Joe Blow Usenet: nz.general Dec. 15, 1998. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
There are lots of names for mixed-breed dogs, such as Texas brown dog, TBD, Heinz 57, duke’s mixture, poi dog, and potcakes. Danes have a couple of creative names for them that involve traffic: A mutt may be called a gadekryds, or “street...
After Diana from Williamsburg, Virginia, scraped the front of her leg on a chair, she fretted to her grown daughters she had barked her shin. Neither daughter had ever heard the expression. This kind of bark refers not to what a dog does, but to...