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Late 15th century, from obsolete mong (“mixture”) + -rel (“(pejorative)”); from Old English gemong (“mingling”) (whence Modern English among), from Proto-Germanic *mang- (“mix”).[1]
mongrel (plural mongrels)
- Someone or something of mixed kind or uncertain origin; especially, a dog that is such.
- That dog is a mongrel, who knows what breed it could be!
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someone of mixed kind
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- Polish: kundel (pl) m, mieszaniec (pl) m
- Portuguese: vira-lata (pt) m, (Portugal) rafeiro (pt) m
- Romanian: corcitură (ro)
- Russian: дворняга (ru) (dvornjága) f, дворняжка (ru) (dvornjážka) f
- Spanish: (mongrel dog) perro callejero (es) m, perro mestizo (es) m, cacri (es) m (Venezuela), comecuandohay (es) m (Nicaragua - also written and pronounced 'comecuanduay'), chucho (es) m (Spain), chumino (es) m (Guatemala), chusco (es) m(Peru), gozque (es) m(Colombia), mil leches (es) m (Spain), perro aguacatero (es) m (El Salvador, Honduras), perro criollo (es) m (Panama), PP (es) m (Argentina - pronounced 'pe pe'), quiltro (es) m (Bolivia, Chile), sato (es) m (Cuba, Puerto Rico), tinaquero (es) m (Panama), zaguate (es) m (Costa Rica)
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References [edit]
- ^ “mongrel” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).