Mongrel

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  • noun. An animal or plant resulting from various interbreedings, especially a dog of mixed or undetermined breed.
  • noun. A person of mixed background or descent.
  • noun. Something that is a mixture or combination of elements.
  • adjective. Of mixed origin or character.
  • adjective. Being a person of mixed background or descent.
  • adjective. Being a mongrel organism.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To make mongrel; mongrelize.
  • noun. An individual or a breed of animals resulting from repeated crossing or mixture of several different varieties; the progeny of varieties, and especially of artificial varieties, as distinguished from the hybrid, or cross between two different species (but the distinction is not always observed).
  • noun. Specifically, a dog of mixed breed.
  • noun. Anything of mixed breed; anything that is a mixture of incongruous elements.
  • Of a mixed or impure breed; begotten or made up of different kinds: usually in a disreputable sense.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The progeny resulting from a cross between two breeds, as of domestic animals; anything of mixed breed.
  • adjective. Not of a pure breed.
  • adjective. Of mixed kinds.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Someone or something of mixed kind or uncertain origin; especially, a dog that is such.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. an inferior dog or one of mixed breed
  • noun. derogatory term for a variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin
  • Word Usage
    "Bull-terriers, retrievers, nondescripts — the dog-lover abhors the term mongrel — sheep dogs and cattle dogs, pointers, and, most beloved of all, Irish terriers."
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