mut

[ muht ]

/ mʌt /

noun

mutt.

Nearby words

mut

[ muht ]

/ mʌt /

noun Printing.

mutton².

Origin of mut

by shortening

mutt

or mut

[ muht ]

/ mʌt /

noun Slang.

a dog, especially a mongrel.

a stupid or foolish person; simpleton.

Origin of mutt

1900–05, Americanism; short for muttonhead

mut.

mutilated.

mutual.

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Examples from the Web for mut

For Selman, Mut'ah is simply "a permission from God to have sexual relations."
Islam's Sex Licenses|Betwa Sharma|April 29, 2009|DAILY BEAST
He says Mut'ah leads to abandonment of pregnant women, unwanted babies, and destroys the purpose and sanctity of marriage.
Islam's Sex Licenses|Betwa Sharma|April 29, 2009|DAILY BEAST
Lydgate has: 'And also clos and mut as a stone;' Siege of Thebes, pt.
Chaucer's Works, Volume 2 (of 7)|Geoffrey Chaucer
The millionaire and the minister, the merchant and the mut, all will help.
H. R.|Edwin Lefevre

An' it's very weel, for aw dunnut know what mut become o' poor folk iv they did'n do.
Lancashire Sketches|Edwin Waugh
At last, th' Board sattle't that they mut be paid for weet and dry,—an' there's bin quietness sin'.
Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine|Edwin Waugh
In Akhenaton's time the vulture symbol of the goddess Mut did not appear above the sculptured figures of royalty.
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria|Donald A. Mackenzie

British Dictionary definitions for mut

mut

/ (mʌt) /

noun

printing another word for em (def. 1)

Word Origin for mut

C20: shortened from mutton

mutt

/ (mʌt) /

noun slang

an inept, ignorant, or stupid person

a mongrel dog; cur

Word Origin for mutt

C20: shortened from muttonhead

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Word Origin and History for mut

mutt

1901, "stupid or foolish person," American English, probably a shortening of muttonhead (1803); meaning "a dog," especially "a mongrel" is from 1904, originally simply a term of contempt, but perhaps this is a separate word of unknown derivation.