Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete spelling of
mongrel .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- See
mongrel .
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- noun Archaic form of
mongrel .
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Examples
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And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mungrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree.
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As, on the contrary, branding conformity to the rules and rites of the best church in the world, with the false and odious name of formality; and traducing all religious, conscientious observers of them, as mungrel Protestants, and Papists in masquerade.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. II. 1634-1716 1823
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And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mungrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree.
The Vicar of Wakefield Oliver Goldsmith 1752
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No matter; then I shall be free from a damn'd Commonwealth, as you are pleas'd to call it, when indeed 'tis but a mungrel, mangy,
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_ No matter, then I shall be free from a damn'd Commonwealth, as you are pleas'd to call it, when indeed 'tis but a mungrel, mangy,
The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I Aphra Behn 1664
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As with pornography, so with pit bulls: because they are mungrel mutts there is no standard
Latest Articles 2008
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Thus are the mungrel thoughts of mixt desire Consum'd between that heav'nly and this earthly fire.
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