mongrel.
Anything of mixed kind.
Meaning & usage
Anything of mixed kind. A dog with a lineage of two or more breeds.
That dog is a mongrel; who knows what breed it could be!
Anything of mixed kind. A person of mixed race.
A thuggish, obnoxious, or contemptible person; (often preceded by "poor") a pitiable person.
An erect penis; an erection.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English mongrel, equivalent to mong (“mixture”) + -rel (pejorative diminutive); from Old English ġemang (“mingling”) (whence Modern English among), from Proto-Germanic *mang- (“mix; mixture”).
Of mixed breed, nature, or origin; of or like a mongrel.
English spelling is often regarded as confusing and unpredictable due to the mongrel nature of that language.
a mongrel dog
Where this word comes from
From Middle English mongrel, equivalent to mong (“mixture”) + -rel (pejorative diminutive); from Old English ġemang (“mingling”) (whence Modern English among), from Proto-Germanic *mang- (“mix; mixture”).
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