1. a small dog, especially a mongrel or hunting dog of mixed breed
Usage: informal; chiefly Southern U.S.

Examples

• The old fice barked at every stranger who walked past the porch.
• He trained his fice to hunt rabbits in the woods.
• That scrappy little fice had more courage than dogs twice its size.
• The fice followed the children around the yard all afternoon.
• She adopted a fice from the local shelter and named it Rusty.