mutt

mutt  (mt)

n. Informal

1. A mongrel dog.

2. A stupid person; a dolt.

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[Short for muttonhead.]

Word History: Clipping not of sheep but of a word having to do with sheep has given us our term mutt for a mongrel dog. Clipping or abbreviating words, a standard process of word formation, sheared mutt from muttonhead, a pejorative term meaning "a stupid person" based on the notion that sheep are stupid. Mutt in its first recorded use in 1901 is used in the same senses as muttonhead, but it is soon recorded (1904) as a term of contempt for a horse and then (1906) for a dog. We can be reasonably certain that the New Yorker critic writing in 1970 that "The cast includes a Sheepdog, . . . a Mutt Bitch," had no awareness that a sheepdog would make the ideal mutt.

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mutt

Noun

Slang

1. a foolish or stupid person

2. a mongrel dog [from muttonhead]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

mutt - an inferior dog or one of mixed breed cur, mongrel Canis familiaris, dog, domestic dog - a member of the genus Canis (probably descended from the common wolf) that has been domesticated by man since prehistoric times; occurs in many breeds; "the dog barked all night" feist, fice - a nervous belligerent little mongrel dog pariah dog, pie-dog, pye-dog - ownerless half-wild mongrel dog common around Asian villages especially India

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mutt (Slang)

noun 1. mongrel, dog, hound, tyke, pooch (informal) cur

noun 2. fool, idiot, berk Brit. (slang) moron, charlie Brit. (informal) jerk (slang), chiefly U.S., Canad. plank Brit. (slang) wally (slang) prat (slang) plonker (slang) coot, geek (slang) twit (informal), chiefly Brit. imbecile (informal) ignoramus, dipstick Brit. (slang) gonzo (slang) schmuck U.S. (slang) dork (slang) dolt, divvy Brit. (slang) pillock Brit. (slang) dweeb U.S. (slang) putz U.S. (slang) weenie U.S. (informal) eejit Scot., Irish dumb-ass (slang) dunderhead, numpty Scot. (informal) doofus (slang), chiefly U.S. thickhead, nerd or nurd (slang) numbskull or numskull, dorba or dorb Austral. (slang) bogan Austral. (slang)