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Webster 1913 Edition


Mongrel

Mon′grel

,
Noun.
[Prob. shortened fr.
mongrel
, and akin to AS.
mengan
to mix, and E.
mingle
. See
Mingle
.]
The progeny resulting from a cross between two breeds, as of domestic animals; anything of mixed breed.
Drayton.

Mon′grel

,
Adj.
1.
(Zool.)
Not of a pure breed.
2.
Of mixed kinds;
as,
mongrel
language
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Mongrel

MONGREL

,
Adj.
[See Mingle.] Of a mixed breed; of different kinds.

MONGREL

,
Noun.
An animal of a mixed breed.

Definition 2024


mongrel

mongrel

English

Noun

mongrel (plural mongrels)

  1. (often pejorative) Someone or something of mixed kind or uncertain origin; especially, a dog that is such.
    That dog is a mongrel, who knows what breed it could be!
  2. (slang, Australia) A thuggish, obnoxious, or contemptible person; (often preceded by "poor") a pitiable person.
    • This poor mongrel's sitting in a bar, you see... (Maurie Fields)
    • 2008, Jim Brigginshaw, Over My Dead Body, page 77,
      "Yanto bloody Evans!" Jack stuttered with rage. "Yanto bloody Evans! That... that... bloody mongrel! D'you know who he is? He's the one who knocked me back for a bit of extra timber before the roof fell in on me!"

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  1. mongrel” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).