mutt

See also: mutt' and Mutt

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mʌt/

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• (Northern England) IPA^(key): /mʊt/
• Rhymes: -ʌt

Etymology 1

Clipping of muttonhead.

Noun

mutt (plural mutts)

1. A mongrel dog (or sometimes cat); an animal of mixed breed or uncertain origin.

   Synonym: (US, humorous, informal) Heinz 57

   Coordinate term: moggy

   • 1986, Paul Simon, “You Can Call Me Al”, in Graceland:

     Mr. Beerbelly, Beerbelly / Get these mutts away from me / You know, I don't find this stuff amusing anymore

2. (usually derogatory or humorous) A person of mixed racial or ethnic ancestry.
   • 2013 June 28, David Brooks, “A Nation of Mutts”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 12 November 2020:

     Soon, we will no longer be an outpost of Europe, but a nation of mutts, a nation with hundreds of fluid ethnicities from around the world, intermarrying and intermingling. Americans of European descent are already a minority among 5-year-olds. […] Immigration reform or not, the nation of mutts is coming.

3. (Internet slang, derogatory, by extension) A person from the United States.

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4. (chiefly US, slang, derogatory) An idiot, a stupid person.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:idiot

   • 1923, Agatha Christie, The Murder on the Links:

     “I knew you weren’t such a mutt as you looked,” she cried.

   • 1927, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados Mysteries:

     I must say I think Chloe was a bit of a mutt to walk on the bed and then leave a button somewhere about. She might have learned better than that from the pictures surely.

   • 1990, Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese, Goodfellas‎^[2], spoken by Tommy DeVito (Joe Pesci):

     Mother fuckin' mutt! You, you fucking piece of shit!

   • 2019 November 20, Luke O'Neil, quoting Robert De Niro, “Robert De Niro v Trump: a complete history of a (mainly one-sided) beef”, in The Guardian‎^[3], archived from the original on 18 April 2020:

     “He’s so blatantly stupid. He’s a punk. He’s a dog. He’s a pig. A con. A bullshit artist. A mutt who doesn’t know what he’s talking about,” he said, among many other things, in a video.

5. (slang, derogatory) An ugly woman.
   • 2007, Lewis Korn, Ice Cold (page 49)

     Too bad the guys' ^[sic] wife is a total mutt. I guess he wants to achieve a less stressful life; he married ugly.

6. (Antarctica, slang) The snowy sheathbill.

Derived terms

• Amerimutt
• Euromutt
• muttish
• muttly
• muttnik
• muttrimony

Translations

mongrel dog

• Bulgarian: помияр (bg) m (pomijar)
• Czech: vořech m, kříženec (cs) m, voříšek (cs) m
• Dutch: bastaard (nl) m, mormel (nl) n, vuilnisbak (nl) m
• Finnish: rakki (fi), piski (fi)
• French: bâtard (fr) m, corniaud (fr) m, cabot (fr) m (slang)
• Galician: can de palleiro (gl) m
• German: Promenadenmischung (de) f, Köter (de) m
• Interlingua: can mesticiate, can bastarde
• Italian: bastardino m
• Japanese: 雑種 (ja) (zasshu), 駄犬 (ja) (daken), 雑犬 (ja) (zakken)
• Korean: 똥개 (ko) (ttonggae)
• Macedonian: ’ртка f (’rtka), џукела f (džukela)
• Malay: anjing campuran
• Norwegian: kjøter (no) m
• Polish: kundel (pl) m, mieszaniec (pl) m
• Portuguese: vira-lata (pt) m
• Romanian: corcitură (ro) f
• Russian: дворня́жка (ru) f (dvornjážka), дворня́га (ru) f (dvornjága)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мјеша́нац m, џу̀кела f

  Latin: mješánac (sh) m, džùkela (sh) f

• Spanish: chucho (es) m, quiltro (es) m (Chile)
• Swedish: byracka (sv) c (derogatory), gatukorsning (sv) c, blandrashund c

person of diverse ancestry

• Finnish: sekasikiö (fi) (derogatory)
• Russian: полукро́вка (ru) m or f (polukróvka)

idiot, stupid person

• Bulgarian: глупак (bg) m (glupak)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雜種 / 杂种 (zh) (zázhǒng)

• Czech: hlupák (cs) m
• Dutch: halve gare ?, idioot (nl) ?, domkop (nl) ?
• Finnish: tolvana (fi)
• French: crétin (fr) m, imbécile (fr) m, con (fr) m, corniaud (fr) m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tulling (no) c

• Russian: болва́н (ru) m (bolván), бара́н (ru) m (barán, literally “ram, sheep”)

References

• (ugly woman): Tony Thorne (2014), “mutt”, in Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, 4th edition, London;  […]: Bloomsbury

See also

• bitsa, bitser, bitzer
• cur
• Heinz 57
• mongrel
• Mutt and Jeff

Etymology 2

Noun

mutt (plural mutts)

1. Alternative form of matha.

Estonian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmutʲː/, [ˈmutʲː]

Etymology 1

Unknown.

Noun

mutt (genitive muti, partitive mutti)

1. mole (animal)

Declension

Declension of mutt (ÕS type 22e/riik, length gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		mutt	mutid
accusative	nom.
	gen.	muti
genitive			muttide
partitive		mutti	mutte muttisid
illative		mutti mutisse	muttidesse mutesse
inessive		mutis	muttides mutes
elative		mutist	muttidest mutest
allative		mutile	muttidele mutele
adessive		mutil	muttidel mutel
ablative		mutilt	muttidelt mutelt
translative		mutiks	muttideks muteks
terminative		mutini	muttideni
essive		mutina	muttidena
abessive		mutita	muttideta
comitative		mutiga	muttidega

Etymology 2

From German Mutti (“mom; mommy”).

Noun

mutt (genitive muti, partitive mutti) (colloquial)

1. old woman
2. hag

Declension

Declension of mutt (ÕS type 22e/riik, length gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		mutt	mutid
accusative	nom.
	gen.	muti
genitive			muttide
partitive		mutti	mutte muttisid
illative		mutti mutisse	muttidesse mutesse
inessive		mutis	muttides mutes
elative		mutist	muttidest mutest
allative		mutile	muttidele mutele
adessive		mutil	muttidel mutel
ablative		mutilt	muttidelt mutelt
translative		mutiks	muttideks muteks
terminative		mutini	muttideni
essive		mutina	muttidena
abessive		mutita	muttideta
comitative		mutiga	muttidega

Etymology 3

From Russian мутник (mutnik), from мути́ть (mutítʹ, “to cloud, muddy”) + -ник (-nik).

Noun

mutt (genitive muti, partitive mutti)

1. A traditional fishing net used to catch small fish.

Declension

Declension of mutt (ÕS type 22e/riik, length gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		mutt	mutid
accusative	nom.
	gen.	muti
genitive			muttide
partitive		mutti	mutte muttisid
illative		mutti mutisse	muttidesse mutesse
inessive		mutis	muttides mutes
elative		mutist	muttidest mutest
allative		mutile	muttidele mutele
adessive		mutil	muttidel mutel
ablative		mutilt	muttidelt mutelt
translative		mutiks	muttideks muteks
terminative		mutini	muttideni
essive		mutina	muttidena
abessive		mutita	muttideta
comitative		mutiga	muttidega

Etymology 4

From German Mutt.

Noun

mutt (genitive muti, partitive mutti)

1. (nautical) cringle (grommet on a sail)

Declension

Declension of mutt (ÕS type 22e/riik, length gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		mutt	mutid
accusative	nom.
	gen.	muti
genitive			muttide
partitive		mutti	mutte muttisid
illative		mutti mutisse	muttidesse mutesse
inessive		mutis	muttides mutes
elative		mutist	muttidest mutest
allative		mutile	muttidele mutele
adessive		mutil	muttidel mutel
ablative		mutilt	muttidelt mutelt
translative		mutiks	muttideks muteks
terminative		mutini	muttideni
essive		mutina	muttidena
abessive		mutita	muttideta
comitative		mutiga	muttidega

References

• mutt in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
• “mutt”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Northern Sami muottá, genitive and accusative singular of muoddá.

Alternative forms

• mudd (alternative form based on the nominative form of the Samic origin)

Noun

mutt m (definite singular mutten, indefinite plural muttar, definite plural muttane)

1. (clothing) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Etymology 2

Adjective

mutt (indefinite singular mutt, definite singular and plural mutte, comparative muttare, indefinite superlative muttast, definite superlative muttaste)

1. grumpy

References

• “mutt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.