mutt

Definition

A mongrel dog (or sometimes cat); an animal of mixed breed or uncertain origin.

Etymology

Clipping of muttonhead.

Example Sentences

• "Mr. Beerbelly, Beerbelly / Get these mutts away from me / You know, I don't find this stuff amusing anymore"
• "Soon, we will no longer be an outpost of Europe, but a nation of mutts, a nation with hundreds of fluid ethnicities from around the world, intermarrying and intermingling. Americans of European descent are already a minority among 5-year-olds."
• "“I knew you weren’t such a mutt as you looked,” she cried."

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