mutt

See also: mutt' and Mutt

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mʌt/

• Audio (US)

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• 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.

   Coordinate term: moggy

   • 1986, Paul Simon (lyrics and music), “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

   • 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.

   See also: amerimutt

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

Derived terms

• Amerimutt

Translations

mongrel dog

• Bulgarian: помияр (bg) m (pomijar)
• Czech: vořech ?, kříženec (cs) m
• Dutch: bastaard (nl) ?
• Finnish: rakki (fi), piski (fi)
• French: bâtard (fr) m, corniaud (fr) m, cabot (fr) m (slang)
• Galician: can de palleiro m
• German: Promenadenmischung (de) f, Köter (de) m
• Interlingua: can mesticiate, can bastarde
• Italian: bastardino m
• Japanese: 雑種 (ja) (zasshu), 駄犬 (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)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мјеша́нац m, џу̀кела f

  Roman: 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)

idiot, stupid person

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

  Mandarin: 雜種／杂种 (zh) (zázhǒng)

• 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) ?

• Russian: по́месь (ru) f (pómesʹ), полукро́вка (ru) m or f (polukróvka), мети́с (ru) m (metís), мети́ска (ru) f (metíska), (bastard) ублю́док (ru) m (ubljúdok)

See also

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

Etymology 2

Noun

mutt (plural mutts)

1. Alternative form of matha

Estonian

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

mutt (genitive muti, partitive mutti)

1. mole (animal)

Declension

Declension of mutt (ÕS type 22e/riik, t-ø gradation)

	singular	plural
nominative	mutt	mutid
accusative	muti	mutid
genitive	muti	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
Notes	1) The long illative singular form with -sse is rarely used for this declension type.

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, t-ø gradation)

	singular	plural
nominative	mutt	mutid
accusative	muti	mutid
genitive	muti	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
Notes	1) The long illative singular form with -sse is rarely used for this declension type.

Etymology 3

From Russian мутник (mutnik), from мутить (mutitʹ, “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, t-ø gradation)

	singular	plural
nominative	mutt	mutid
accusative	muti	mutid
genitive	muti	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
Notes	1) The long illative singular form with -sse is rarely used for this declension type.

Etymology 4

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

mutt (genitive muti, partitive mutti)

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

Declension

Declension of mutt (ÕS type 22e/riik, t-ø gradation)

	singular	plural
nominative	mutt	mutid
accusative	muti	mutid
genitive	muti	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
Notes	1) The long illative singular form with -sse is rarely used for this declension type.

References

• mutt in Sõnaveeb

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.