Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Informal A mongrel dog.
- n. Informal A stupid person; a dolt.
Wiktionary
- n. A mongrel dog; a dog of mixed breed or uncertain origin.
- n. A person of diverse ancestry.
- n. As a term of abuse.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. An dog that is of inferior quality or of mixed breed.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an inferior dog or one of mixed breed
Etymologies
- Short for muttonhead.
Examples
“Shows how to set up your .muttrc to execute vim with the right command line args for this, or set up an autocommand to match on /tmp/mutt* files, which is what mutt will use.”
“Pet Talk: Mighty three-legged mutt is my kind of mayor”
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“What doesn't seem to jive here, mutt, is that paella is not a difficult nor complicated dish to prepare.”
“To say one chooses between a purebred from a breeder and an all-American mutt is just naive. —”
Choice of First Dog Is Narrowed to 2 Breeds - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
“The modern political landscape is now a "mutt" - like collage (to use an infamous line from the President-elect) of differing perspectives, diverse cultural backgrounds and competing interests sharing a common goal towards wealth, prosperity and social stability.”
“And will Obama calling himself a 'mutt' -- with humor, as if the word is nothing, nothing at all -- make it socially acceptable for people to start calling me a mutt?”
“And will Obama calling himself a "mutt" - with humor, as if the word is nothing, nothing at all - make it socially acceptable for people to start calling me a mutt?”
“And will Obama calling himself a 'mutt' - with humor, as if the word is nothing, nothing at all - make it socially acceptable for people to start calling me a mutt?”
“Obama has called himself a "mutt" - Lula has used similar terms to describe himself.”
“Let's say your mutt is a German Shepherd/Border Collie combo.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mutt’.
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metaphoric references to dogs
As an ongoing part of my project, Dogs in Metaphor and Idiom, Illustrated, (www.metaphordogs.org) I am continually adding terms. If you know a term that fi...
dog, alpha male, at bay, bark, bird dog, bitch, bitchin, bloodhound, bulldog, canaille, canines, cerberus and 130 more...
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animal hybrids
Only actual biologically possible hybrids are allowed.
cockapoo, zonkey, liger, tigon, zorse, cama, pizzly, grolar bear, leopon, wolfphin, labradoodle, mule and 12 more...
amacleod03 At his first news conference after his election as President, Barack Obama, referred to himself as a mutt when asked what kind of dog his daughters were getting:
With respect to the dog, this is a major issue. We have…we have two criteria that have to be reconciled. One is that Malia is allergic, so it has to be hypo-allergenic. There are a number of breeds that are hypo-allergenic. On the other hand, our preference would be to get a shelter dog. But obviously, a lot of shelter dogs are mutts, like me. Jul 11, 2009