mutt

See also: mutt' and Mutt

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mʌt/

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• (Northern England) IPA^(key): /mʊt/
• Rhymes: -ʌt

Etymology 1

Clipping of muttonhead.

Noun

mutt (plural mutts)

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

   Synonym: (US, humorous, informal) Heinz 57

   Coordinate term: moggy

   • 1986, Paul Simon, “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:

     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.

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

5. (Antarctica, slang) The snowy sheathbill.

Translations

mongrel dog

Bulgarian: помияр (bg) m (pomijar) Czech: vořech m, kříženec (cs) m, voříšek (cs) m Dutch: bastaard (nl) m, mormel (nl) n, vuilnisbak (nl) m Finnish: rakki (fi), piski (fi) French: bâtard (fr) m, corniaud (fr) m, cabot (fr) m (slang) Galician: can de palleiro m German: Promenadenmischung (de) f, Köter (de) m Interlingua: can mesticiate, can bastarde Italian: bastardino m Japanese: 雑種 (ja) (zasshu), 駄犬 (ja) (daken), 雑犬 (ja) (zakken) Korean: 똥개 (ko) (ttonggae) Macedonian: ’ртка f (’rtka), џукела f (džukela) Malay: anjing campuran Norwegian: kjøter (no) m Polish: kundel (pl) m, mieszaniec (pl) m Portuguese: vira-lata (pt) m Romanian: corcitură (ro) f Russian: дворня́жка (ru) f (dvornjážka), дворня́га (ru) f (dvornjága) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: мјеша́нац m, џу̀кела f Roman: mješánac (sh) m, džùkela (sh) f Spanish: chucho (es) m, quiltro (es) m (Chile) Swedish: byracka (sv) c (derogatory), gatukorsning (sv) c, blandrashund c

person of diverse ancestry

Finnish: sekasikiö (fi) (derogatory) Russian: полукро́вка (ru) m or f (polukróvka)

idiot, stupid person

Bulgarian: глупак (bg) m (glupak) Chinese: Mandarin: 雜種 / 杂种 (zh) (zázhǒng) Czech: hlupák (cs) m Dutch: halve gare ?, idioot (nl) ?, domkop (nl) ? Finnish: tolvana (fi) French: crétin (fr) m, imbécile (fr) m, con (fr) m, corniaud (fr) m Norwegian: Bokmål: tulling (no) c Russian: болва́н (ru) m (bolván), бара́н (ru) m (barán, literally “ram, sheep”)

See also

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

Etymology 2

Noun

mutt (plural mutts)

1. Alternative form of matha.