mutt

• IPA^(key): /mʌt/

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• Rhymes: -ʌt

Clipping of muttonhead.

mutt (plural mutts)

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

   Coordinate term: moggy

   • 1986, Paul Simon (lyrics and music), “You Can Call Me Al”, in Graceland:

     Mr. Beerbelly, Beerbelly / Get these mutts away from me / You know, I don't find this stuff amusing anymore

2. (usually derogatory or humorous) A person of mixed racial or ethnic ancestry.
   • 2013 June 28, David Brooks, “A Nation of Mutts”, in The New York Times‎, ISSN 0362-4331:

     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.

3. (chiefly US, slang, derogatory) An idiot, a stupid person.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:idiot

   • 1990, Nicholas Pileggi; Martin Scorsese, Goodfellas‎, spoken by Tommy DeVito (Joe Pesci):

     Mother fuckin' mutt! You, you fucking piece of shit!

   • 2019 November 20, Luke O'Neil, quoting Robert De Niro, “Robert De Niro v Trump: a complete history of a (mainly one-sided) beef”, in The Guardian‎:

     “He’s so blatantly stupid. He’s a punk. He’s a dog. He’s a pig. A con. A bullshit artist. A mutt who doesn’t know what he’s talking about,” he said, among many other things, in a video.

4. (Internet slang, derogatory) A person from the United States, in reference to sense 2.

   See also: amerimutt

   (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)

• Amerimutt

• bitsa, bitser
• cur
• Heinz 57
• mongrel
• Mutt and Jeff

mutt (plural mutts)

1. Alternative form of matha

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mutt (genitive muti, partitive mutti)

1. mole (animal)

From German Mutti (“mom; mommy”).

mutt (genitive muti, partitive mutti) (colloquial)

1. old woman
2. hag

From Russian мутник (mutnik), from мутить (mutitʹ, “to cloud, muddy”) + -ник (-nik).

mutt (genitive muti, partitive mutti)

1. A traditional fishing net used to catch small fish.

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mutt (genitive muti, partitive mutti)

1. (nautical) cringle (grommet on a sail)

• mutt in Sõnaveeb

From Northern Sami muottá, genitive and accusative singular of muoddá.

• mudd (alternative form based on the nominative form of the Samic origin)

mutt m (definite singular mutten, indefinite plural muttar, definite plural muttane)

1. (clothing) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

mutt (indefinite singular mutt, definite singular and plural mutte, comparative muttare, indefinite superlative muttast, definite superlative muttaste)

1. grumpy

• “mutt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.