Hypertext Webster Gateway: "mongrel"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Mongrel \Mon"grel\, n. [Prob. shortened fr. mongrel, and akin to
AS. mengan to mix, and E. mingle. See {Mingle}.]
The progeny resulting from a cross between two breeds, as of
domestic animals; anything of mixed breed. --Drayton.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Mongrel \Mon"grel\, a.
1. (Zo["o]l.) Not of a pure breed.
2. Of mixed kinds; as, mongrel language.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
mongrel
adj : of inferior or mixed breed; "a cur dog"; "an underbred dog"
[syn: {cur(a)}, {mixed}, {mongrel(a)}, {scrub(a)}, {underbred}]
n 1: derogatory term for a variation that is not genuine;
something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin;
"the architecture was a kind of bastard suggesting
Gothic but not true Gothic" [syn: {bastard}]
2: an inferior dog or one of mixed breed [syn: {cur}, {mutt}]
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