mongrel (dog)
1mongrel dog — mixed breed dog …
2Mongrel — 1. mongrel dog; 2. despicable person; 3. something difficult: It s a mongrel of a job …
3mongrel — Australian Slang 1. mongrel dog; 2. despicable person; 3. something difficult: It s a mongrel of a job …
4Dog anatomy — includes the same internal structures that are in humans. Details of structures vary tremendously from breed to breed, more than in any other animal species, wild or domesticated,[1] as dogs vary from the tiny Chihuahua to the giant Irish… …
5mongrel — (n.) late 15c., mixed breed dog, from obsolete mong mixture, from O.E. gemong mingling (base of AMONG (Cf. among)), from P.Gmc. *mangjan to knead together (see MINGLE (Cf. mingle)). With pejorative suffix REL (Cf. rel). Meani …
6mongrel — ► NOUN 1) a dog of no definable breed. 2) offensive a person of mixed descent. 3) something of mixed origin or nature. ORIGIN apparently related to MINGLE(Cf. ↑mingle) and AMONG(Cf. ↑among) …
7mongrel — [mäŋ′grəl, muŋ′grəl] n. [ME mengrell < base of OE mengan, to mix + dim. suffix rel as in COCKEREL: form infl. by ME mong, aphetic < OE gemong, mixture: see AMONG] 1. an animal or plant produced by the crossing of different breeds or… …
8dog — [n] canine mammal bitch, bowwow*, cur, doggy, fido*, flea bag*, hound, man’s best friend*, mongrel, mutt, pooch*, pup, puppy, stray, tail wagger*, tyke; concept 400 dog [v] chase after; bother bedog, haunt, hound, plague, pursue, shadow, tag,… …
9dog Latin — dog′ Lat in n. ling. mongrel or spurious Latin • Etymology: 1760–70 …
10dog — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. canine, cur, whelp; pup[py], tyke, bitch, slut; doggy (inf.); pooch, mutt (both sl.). See animal. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A domestic animal] Syn. hound, puppy, canine, mongrel, cur, canis familiaris… …
