mongrel — English Dictionary

Noun

1. Anything of mixed kind. A dog with a lineage of two or more breeds.

   Usage

   • Derogatory
   • often

   Synonyms

   bitsabitsercurmuttHeinz 57

   Examples

   That dog is a mongrel; who knows what breed it could be!

2. Anything of mixed kind. A person of mixed race.

   Usage

   • Derogatory
   • ethnic
   • Offensive
   • often
   • slur

   Examples

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   The natives of Banda are very much mixed, and it is probable that at least three-fourths of the population are mongrels, in various degrees of Malay, Papuan, Arab, Portuguese, and Dutch. The first two form the bases of the larger portion, and the dark skins, pronounced features, and more or less frizzly hair of the Papuans preponderates.

3. A thuggish, obnoxious, or contemptible person; (often preceded by "poor") a pitiable person.

   Usage

   • Commonwealth usage
   • Ireland
   • UK usage
   • Slang

   Synonyms

   bastard

   Examples

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   "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!"

   But somebody's got to tell these mums and dads why their kids died, why this mongrel thinks he can wipe them out like a dirty rag.

4. An erect penis; an erection.

   Usage

   • Australia
   • Slang

Adjective

1. Of mixed breed, nature, or origin; of or like a mongrel.

   Usage

   • not-comparable

   Examples

   English spelling is often regarded as confusing and unpredictable due to the mongrel nature of that language.

   a mongrel dog

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   America is an improbable idea. A mongrel nation built of ever-changing disparate parts, it is held together by a notion, the notion that all men are created equal, though everyone knows that most men consider themselves better than someone.

Noun

1. derogatory term for a variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin

   Synonyms

   bastard

   Broader terms

   variation

   Examples

   the architecture was a kind of bastard suggesting Gothic but not true Gothic

2. an inferior dog or one of mixed breed

   Synonyms

   curmutt

   Broader terms

   dogdomestic dogCanis familiaris