mutt

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• IPA^(key): /m^t/

• Audio (US):

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• (Northern England) IPA^(key): /mUt/
• Rhymes: -^t

Clipping of muttonhead.

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:

     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.

3. (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.

   • 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]:

     "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.

4. (Internet slang, derogatory) A person from the United States, in reference to sense 2.

   (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)

5. (Antarctica, slang) The snowy sheathbill.

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

mutt (plural mutts)

1. Alternative form of matha.

• IPA^(key): /'mutj:/, ['mutj:]

Unknown.

mutt (genitive muti, partitive mutti)

1. mole (animal)

Declension of mutt (OS 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

From German Mutti ("mom; mommy").

mutt (genitive muti, partitive mutti) (colloquial)

1. old woman
2. hag

Declension of mutt (OS 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

From Russian mutnik (mutnik), from mutit' (mutit', "to cloud, muddy") + -nik (-nik).

mutt (genitive muti, partitive mutti)

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

Declension of mutt (OS 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

From German Mutt.^[1]

mutt (genitive muti, partitive mutti)

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

Declension of mutt (OS 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

• mutt in Sonaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
• "mutt", in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sonaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

From Northern Sami muotta, genitive and accusative singular of muodda.

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

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}}.

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

1. grumpy

• "mutt" in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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