mutt
or mut
[muht]
- a dog, especially a mongrel.
- a stupid or foolish person; simpleton.
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Origin of mutt
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Contemporary Examples
Like all white Americans, I'm a mutt: a little English, a little Irish, a little German.
Hayes and Komisarjevsky were “a Mutt and Jeff pair; the whole thing happened because they were inside together.”
It took 16 years before the last survivor, a mutt named Musketeer, expired.
You listened to the very people who created our economic meltdown, the Mutt and Jeff team of Larry Summers and Tim Geithner.
Historical Examples
I should be a mutt if I didn't, so I'm going to spend it my own way.
T. TembaromFrances Hodgson Burnett
You want to make him feel like a mutt; and a mutt's the worst kind of a fool.
T. TembaromFrances Hodgson Burnett
If he wakes up, and I'm asleep, nurse, you can tell him from me that I'm a mutt.
William Adolphus TurnpikeWilliam Banks
Now, however, the Jogis had warned him that their Mutt was no longer safe.
TaraPhilip Meadows Taylor
Well, if that's a duke all I've got to say is I think he's a mutt.
Making MoneyOwen Johnson
mutt
- an inept, ignorant, or stupid person
- a mongrel dog; cur
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Word Origin
C20: shortened from muttonhead
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Word Origin and History for mutt
n.
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.
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