mutt

or mut

[ muht ]

/ mʌt /

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noun Slang.

a dog, especially a mongrel.

a stupid or foolish person; simpleton.

RELATED WORDS

pooch, mongrel, dog

Nearby words

Origin of mutt

1900–05, Americanism; short for muttonhead

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Examples from the Web for mutt

Hayes and Komisarjevsky were “a Mutt and Jeff pair; the whole thing happened because they were inside together.”
Inside the Mind of a Monster|Jacob Bernstein|November 10, 2010|DAILY BEAST
It took 16 years before the last survivor, a mutt named Musketeer, expired.
The World’s 12 Richest Dogs|The Daily Beast|June 18, 2010|DAILY BEAST
You listened to the very people who created our economic meltdown, the Mutt and Jeff team of Larry Summers and Tim Geithner.
Grow a Pair, Obama|Larry Flynt|July 30, 2009|DAILY BEAST
"There's a 'mutt' class among the specials, Dr. Hopper says," put in the Master, jocosely.
Lad: A Dog|Albert Payson Terhune

He took it like a mutt and now he has a hole in it and wears it around his neck and everybody thinks it is an awful joke on me.
The Carter Girls|Nell Speed
“That mutt Sondheim looks like a bad one to me, and the other guy––Kastner,” he observed gloomily.
The Crimson Tide|Robert W. Chambers
You want to make him feel like a mutt; and a mutt's the worst kind of a fool.
T. Tembarom|Frances Hodgson Burnett
Silently the sled glided over the smooth trail and slanted out onto the river with Boris, Mutt, and Slasher capering in its wake.
Connie Morgan in Alaska|James B. Hendryx

British Dictionary definitions for mutt

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 mutt

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.