mutt

Or mut

[muht]

noun

Slang.

1. a dog, especially a mongrel.

2. a stupid or foolish person; simpleton.

mutt

/ mʌt /

noun

1. an inept, ignorant, or stupid person

2. a mongrel dog; cur

Word History and Origins

Origin of mutt¹

1900–05, short for muttonhead

Word History and Origins

Origin of mutt¹

C20: shortened from _muttonhead

Example Sentences

At their feet circles Bertolt, the mutt they rescued from the street and named, with on-the-nose affection, after the German playwright and director Bertolt Brecht.

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The test results said one of the dogs share the same amount of DNA as people do with their full siblings – and that they’re mutts.

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Still, my favorite performance has to be Luna’s, whose Valentin is at once strong and vulnerable, like a mutt attempting to fend off a bear.

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There’s a look in his eye like a hungry mutt staring at a butcher shop window: pathetic and moony and flummoxed by how to get what he wants.

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Besides, treating topical humor in the same way that a toothless, mangy mutt gums a dumpster bone is not the same as maintaining neutrality.

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