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Definition: Mongrel |
MongrelAdjective1. Of inferior or mixed breed; "a cur dog"; "an underbred dog". Noun1. Derogatory term for a variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin; "the architecture was a kind of bastard suggesting Gothic but not true Gothic". 2. An inferior dog or one of mixed breed. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "mongrel" was first used: sometime around 1460. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | A --, or cur, is a dog of unknown ancestry. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | Eng. Irregular gray limestone, Lower Lias, Lyme Regis. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | MONGREL. A hanger on among cheats, a spunger; also a child whose father and mother are of different countries. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
(1) context: pets (i.e., cats) a description of mixed breed as opposed to pure-bred;
(2) context: humans (oft times an insult) a description of a person's (genetic) heritage that is negative and meant as a demeaning label; someone of mixed ethnicities;
(3) other...
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Mongrel."
Synonyms: MongrelSynonyms: cur(a) (adj), mixed (adj), mongrel(a) (adj), scrub(a) (adj), underbred (adj), bastard (n), cur (n), mutt (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Animal | Dog, hound; pup, puppy; whelp, cur, mongrel; house dog, watch dog, sheep dog, shepherd's dog, sporting dog, fancy dog, lap dog, toy dog, bull dog, badger dog; mastiff; blood hound, grey hound, stag hound, deer hound, fox hound, otter hound; harrier, beagle, spaniel, pointer, setter, retriever; Newfoundland; water dog, water spaniel; pug, poodle; turnspit; terrier; fox terrier, Skye terrier; Dandie Dinmont; collie. |
Bad Man | Blackguard, polisson, loafer, sneak; rapscallion, rascallion; cullion, mean wretch, varlet, kern, ame-de-boue, drole; cur, dog, hound, whelp, mongrel; lown, loon, runnion, outcast, vagabond; rogue; (knave); ronian; scum of the earth, riffraff; Arcades ambo. |
Improbity | Corrupt, venal; debased, mongrel. |
Mixture | Half-blood, half-caste. mulatto; terceron, quarteron, quinteron;quadroon, octoroon; griffo, zambo; cafuzo; Eurasian; fustee, fustie; griffe, ladino, marabou, mestee, mestizo, quintroon, sacatra zebrule; catalo; cross, hybrid, mongrel. |
Adjective: mixed; Verb: implex, composite, half-and-half, linsey-woolsey, chowchow, hybrid, mongrel, heterogeneous; motley; (variegated); miscellaneous, promiscuous, indiscriminate; miscible. | |
Unconformity | Nonconformist; nondescript, character, original, nonesuch, nonsuch, monster, prodigy, wonder, miracle, curiosity, flying fish, black sheep, black swan, lusus naturae, rara avis, queer fish; mongrel, random breed; half-caste, half-blood, half-breed; metis, crossbreed, hybrid, mule, hinny, mulatto; tertium quid, hermaphrodite. |
Heterogeneous, heteroclite, amorphous, mongrel, amphibious, epicene, half blood, hybrid; androgynous, androgynal; asymmetric; adelomorphous, bisexual, hermaphrodite, monoclinous. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Mongrel |
| English words defined with "mongrel": Demiwolf ♦ Limmer ♦ mongrelize, Mungrel ♦ Pariah dog, pie-dog, pye-dog ♦ razorback, razorback hog, razorbacked hog ♦ Tullibee ♦ Variety hybrid. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "mongrel": Dog-Latin. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | The mongrel dog who tucks its tail between its legs and runs away from battle without fighting should not bark! (Rurouni Kenshin; writing credit: Johan Unenge; Mns Gahrton) A knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking, whoreson, glass-gazing, super-servicable, finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pander, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch; one whom I will beat into clamorous whining if thou deny'st the least syllable of thy addition. (King Lear; writing credit: William Shakespeare) | |
Lyrics | Get back you flea infested mongrel (Who Let The Dogs Out; performing artist: Baha Men) | |
Movie/TV Titles | A Self-Made Mongrel (1945) Mongrel and Master (1914) Half Mongrel (2001) Mongrel (1982) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Mischievous, meddlin' mongrel : now you've got the consequences. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Minna Antrim | Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty. |
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge | I have loved but one flag and I can not share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner invented for a league. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | A lean brown mongrel dog came sniffing around the side of the tent. |
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| "Mongrel" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Mongrel" is used about 81 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 81 | 36,835 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "mongrel": mongrel whitefish. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "mongrel": mongrel-looking, mongrel-packs. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
mongrel | 34 |
mob mongrel | 13 |
mongrel nation | 9 |
dog mongrel | 6 |
media mongrel | 3 |
mongrel music | 3 |
half mongrel | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "mongrel"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | qen bastardi (mutt), bastard (bastard, degenerate, misbegotten). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مهجن (cross, crossbred, crossbreed, mixed), مولد (created, generated, half breed, half caste, hybrid, mulatto, produced), جنين غير شرعي, الهجين (metis), إبن زنا (bantling, bastard, love child, misbegotten). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | смесена порода, смесен (amalgamated, farraginous, hyphenated, impure, incorporated, medley, mingled, miscellaneous, mixed, promiscuous, raggle-taggle, scrappy, scratch), хибрид (bastard, crossbreed, hybrid, mule), нечистокръвен (half-bred, unblooded, underbred), мелез (half blood, half breed, hybrid, lurcher, scrub, yellow dog). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 杂种 (Crossbred, Hybrid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | parchant, oříšek (nut, nutlet), neèistokrevný pes, kříženec (bastard, cross, crossbreed, hybrid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | bastard (bastard, hybrid, mixture). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | hybridisch (hybrid), bastaard‐ (hybrid), bastaard- (hybrid), bastaard (bastard). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | hibrida (hybrid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | sekasikiö (cross, hybrid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | métis, hybride, bâtard. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | mischling (bastard, half breed, half caste, hybrid), bastard (bastard, cross-breed, half caste, hybrid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | νόθο (hybrid), μικτογενήσ (crossbred, hybrid), μιγάσ (crossbreed, half blood, half breed, half caste, hybrid, mestizo, mulatto), μιγάς (creole, mestizo, mulatto), μπάσταρδοσ (bastard, misbegotten). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | בן כלאים (crossbred, hybrid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | korcs (bastard, cur, degenerate, hybrid, misbegotten, tyke). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | geladak (criminal, deck, mongrel dog). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | misto (admixture, medley, miscellaneous, mixed, mixture), meticcio (half breed, half caste, mestizo), incrocio (cross, crossbreed, crossing, crossroad, crossroads, intersection), immeticciamento, cane bastardo (cur, mutt, tyke), bastardo (bastard, crossbred, illegitimate, underbred). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 駄犬 (cur). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | け" (cur, keystroke). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | moddey lieh-ghooghys, moddey ass dooghys, mestit (churned, confused, confusing, cross-bred, garbled, jumbled, mashed, miscellaneous, mixed, stirred), aalagh-vestit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ongrelmay icnêumone (ichneumon), cão sem raça definida, bastardo (bastard, degenerating, extramural, false, illegitimate, italicize, Italy, misbegotten, spurious, whoreson). (various references) corciturã (half blood, half breed). (various references) помесь (cross, crossbreed). (various references) melez (half blood, half caste, mestizo, metis), polutan (sciolist). (various references) mestizo (crossbred, crossbreed, half breed, half caste, half-breed, mestizo). (various references) korsning (cross, crossbreed, cross-breeding, crossing, half breed, hybrid, intersection, junction), bastard (bastard, scrub). (various references) melez köpek (pyedog, yellow dog), melez hayvan, melez (cross, crossbred, half breed, half caste, halfblood, halfblooded, half-bred, hybrid, mestizo, mixed, mulatto), kırma (break, breakage, breaking, crossbred, fracture, half breed, hybrid, injury, laceration, mestizo, pleat, unblooded, underbred). (various references) нечистокровний, помісь (bastard, crossbreed), дворняжка (cur, mutt, pi-dock, pooch, tyke). (various references) vật lai (cross-breed, hybrid), chó lai người lai, cây lai (cross-breed, hybrid). (various references) cymysgryw (heterogeneous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | mixticius. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | gemong. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "mongrel": mongrelization, mongrelizations, mongrelize, mongrelized, mongrelizes, mongrelizing, mongrels. (additional references) | |
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"Mongrel" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Megarrell, Meneguel, Migril, minigrip, mogrel, mongel, Mongella, Mongelli, Monglet, mongral, mongrill, monref, montre, Morgner, Mosgiel, Mungra, Mungret, Ohngren. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-l-m-n-o-r" | |
-1 letter: longer, merlon, monger, morgen. | |
-2 letters: enorm, enrol, genom, genro, gnome, golem, goner, lemon, loner, longe, melon, morel, nerol, ogler. | |
-3 letters: enol, ergo, germ, glen, glom, goer, gone, gore, leno, loge, lone, long, lore, lorn, meno, merl, mole, more, morn, noel, nome, norm, ogle, ogre, omen, omer, orle, role. | |
-4 letters: ego, elm, eng, eon, erg. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-l-m-n-o-r" | |
+1 letter: mongrels. | |
+2 letters: angleworm, moldering, morseling, remolding. | |
+3 letters: angleworms, camerlengo, carmagnole, embroiling, fellmonger, lemongrass, mineralogy, mongrelize, morselling, mouldering, numerology, premolding, reblooming, remodeling, rosemaling, smoldering, summerlong. | |
+4 letters: beclamoring, beglamoring, camerlengos, carmagnoles, clergywoman, clergywomen, fellmongers, fellmongery, meliorating, mineralogic, mongrelized, mongrelizes, moonlighter, overmelting, overmilking, pelargonium, prolegomena, recompiling, reemploying, regionalism, remodelling, rosemalings, smouldering, terminology. | |
+5 letters: ameliorating, beglamouring, conglomerate, curmudgeonly, demoralizing, everblooming, fellmongered, galvanometer, governmental, kremlinology, laryngectomy, lemongrasses, longshoreman, longshoremen, metalworking, mineralogies, mineralogist, misenrolling, mongrelizing, moonlighters, multipronged, numerologies, numerologist, overclaiming, overwhelming, pelargoniums, polymerising, polymerizing, prolegomenon, regionalisms, remobilizing, steamrolling, unglamorized. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 6F 6E 67 72 65 6C |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- --- -. --. .-. . .-.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01101111 01101110 01100111 01110010 01100101 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M o n g r e l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 006F 006E 0067 0072 0065 006C |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)47818073847178 |
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