mongreln.adj.

Brit.

/ˈmʌŋɡr(ə)l/,

/ˈmɒŋɡr(ə)l/, U.S.

/ˈmɑŋɡr(ə)l/,

/ˈməŋɡr(ə)l/

Forms: late Middle English mengrell, late Middle English 1600s– mongrel, 1500s mongerell, 1500s moungreell, 1500s mungerell, 1500s–1600s mangrel, 1500s–1600s mangrell, 1500s–1600s moungrel, 1500s–1600s mungrell, 1500s–1600s mungrill, 1500s–1700s mongrell, 1500s–1700s mongril, 1500s–1700s mungrel, 1500s–1700s mungril, 1600s mongrill, 1600s moungrill, 1900s– mongreal (Australian); Scottish pre-1700 mangrell, pre-1700 1700s– mangrel, 1700s– mongrel, 1800s mangerrel.

Origin: Probably formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mung n.¹, mang v.¹, -rel suffix.

Etymology: Probably < mung n.¹ or mang v.¹ + -rel suffix. With form mengrell perhaps compare forms in -e- s.v. ming v.¹The spelling pronunciation with British./ɒ/, U.S. /ɑ/ is first attested in general dictionaries in the second half of the twentieth cent., but is not recorded by major twentieth cent. dictionaries of pronunciation.

A. n.

I. The offspring or result of cross-breeding, miscegenation, mixed marriage, etc.

1. A dog having parents of different breeds (in quot. c1460 a heraldic representation of such a dog); a dog of no definable breed resulting from various crossings. Also: †the offspring of a wolf and a dog (obsolete rare).

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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [noun] > mongrel

mongrelc1460

limer1538

potlicker1830

kuri1838

mutt1900

mong1903

pooch1908

goorie1937

c1460 Bk. Arms in Ancestor (1903) Jan. 250 (MED) [Azure a fesse gold between ‘quatre mains’ of gold quartered with silver] ij mongrelys of goulys.

1486 Bk. St. Albans sig. fiiij^v A Grehownd, a Bastard, a Mengrell, a Mastyfe.

1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 42 Of Mastiues and mungrils [1580 mungrels].

1576 A. Fleming tr. J. Caius Of Eng. Dogges 43 Of mungrels or rascalls [L. degeneres] somwhat is to be spoken. And among these, y^e Wappe or Turnespet.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 154 Of the mixt kind of Dogs called in English Mangrels or Mongrels. Those we call Mangrels which though they be on both sides, propagated by Dogges, yet are they not of one kind.

1614 T. Overbury et al. Characters in Wife now Widdow (4th impr.) sig. E4 Like a true Mungrell [1615 (7th impr.) mongrell] hee neither bites nor barkes, but when your back is towards him.

1674 London Gaz. No. 945/4 A great old Indian Spaniel, or Mongrel, as big as a Mastiff.

1677 W. Charleton Exercitationes de Differrentiis et Nominibus Animalium (ed. 2) 26 Canis..Lyciscus, a Mongrel, engendered of a Wolf and a Bitch.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 11 His Mungril bark'd, I ran to his relief.

1704 London Gaz. No. 4079/4 A..Greyhound,..with..a brushy Stern like a Mongrel.

1766 O. Goldsmith Elegy Mad Dog in Vicar of Wakefield I. 175 Both mungrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree.

1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 197 Mongrels, the offspring of the wolf and dog.

1827 T. Hood Plea Midsummer Fairies xx, in Plea Midsummer Fairies & Other Poems 11 A flock of panick'd sheep..Watching the roaming mongrel here and there.

1862 C. S. Calverley Verses & Transl. (ed. 2) 48 A long-backed fancy-mongrel.

1882 M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal III. vi. 106 ‘What kind of dogs did you see in your travels?’... ‘Two or three very fine breeds of mongrels’.

1922 ‘R. Crompton’ Just—William xii. 229 It stopped..with a glad bark of welcome, then stood eager, alert, friendly, a mongrel unashamed.

1945 L. G. Green Where Men still Dream 167 The finest type of Bushman hunting dog, a light brown ridgeback mongrel with dark stripes and a trace of the greyhound in its appearance.

1991 What Dog? 63/1 Many people delight in speculating on the ingredients which went into their mongrel.

2. Chiefly derogatory. A person of mixed descent; a person whose parents are of different nationalities; †a person whose parents are of differing social status (obsolete). Also figurative.

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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [noun] > person

mongrel1542

of (the) half blood1697

half-caste1758

half-breed1760

lip-lap1798

quarter-breed1821

half-blood1826

half-and-half1827

quarter-blood1827

quarter-caste1859

mixed blooda1862

brown1862

miscegen1864

yellowbelly1867

breed1870

redbone1890

miscegenate1898

high yellow1910

samba1958

lightie1991

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > [noun] > person of obscure parentage

mongrel1542

terrae filius1621

society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > lowness of birth > [noun] > person > offspring of parents of high and low birth

mongrel1542

1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 15 By the waye of reuilyng or despyte, laiynge to the charge of the same Antisthenes that he was a moungreell, and had to his father a citezen of Athenes, but to his mother a woman of a barbarous or saluage countree.

1577 M. Hanmer tr. Socrates Scholasticus v. xxii, in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. 357 Selenas.., a mungrell, by father a Gotth, by mother a Phrygian.

1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. iv. ii. 140 Being a mungrell, as it were, the one halfe a Noble, the other a Commoner.

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. i. 2 I being..borne to the Muses, as to the World, a mungrell to both.

1708 J. Wilson et al. tr. Petronius Satyrical Wks. 62 He's of a right Breed both by Father and Mother, no Mungril.

1735 S.-Carolina Gaz. 15 Mar. 1/2 Some new Gentleman, or rather half Gentleman, or Mongrel, an unnatural Compound of Earth and Brass like the Feet of Nebuchadnezzar's Image.

1784 E. Allen Reason xi. §2. 371 They are uniformly in their respective generations essentially diverse from each other, so that an issue from a male and female of the two nations would be a mongrel, partaking partly of the kind of both nations.

1866 J. G. Edgar Runnymede xxii. 131 Men..of every race, mongrels almost to a man.

1898 F. T. Bullen Cruise ‘Cachalot’ x. 115 Neither do the Arab mongrels..bear any too good a reputation.

1924 Collier's 19 Jan. 33/1 The scum of the earth—sailors from tramp ships—lascars, blacks, Chinese, whites, mongrels—a thoroughbred horse or hound is worth more than a score of them.

1995 New Yorker 27 Mar. 66/1 Affirmative-action opponents have justifiable fun with the puzzle of deciding, in a society of racial mongrels, who, exactly, is black.

3. An animal or plant resulting from the crossing of different types (usually different breeds or varieties), esp. other than by design.In quot. 1558, with reference to the mythical offspring of Pasiphaë and a bull.

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the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > heredity or hereditary descent > [noun] > cross-breeding or hybridism > hybrid or cross

mongrel1558

hybrid1601

centaur1606

mulatto1664

half-strain1673

cross1761

cross-breed1774

first cross1793

double-cross1810

quadroon1811

intercross1859

outcross1882

reciprocal1901

filial generation1902

monohybrid1902

vicinist1905

first filial (or F₁) generation1909

polyhybrid1910

back-cross1919

second filial (or F₂) generation1938

1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos vi sig. P.1^v And Minotaure there was, that mongrell uyle of myxed kynd.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 272 These..Ospreies are not thought to be a seuerall kind of Egles by themselues, but to be mungrels, and ingendred of diuers sorts.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Mongrel, a Creature got by two kinds.

1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Hybrid, a mongrel or mule.

1850 D. J. Browne Amer. Poultry Yard 77 The Jersey-Blue Fowl..is another large mongrel of a bluish cast.

1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species viii. 273 The parents of mongrels are varieties, and mostly domestic varieties.

1879 tr. A. de Quatrefages de Bréau Human Species i. vii. 63 This crossing itself is differently named according to whether it takes place between different races or different species. In the first case it produces a mongrel, in the second a hybrid.

1911 J. B. Farmer & A. D. Darbishire tr. H. de Vries Mutation Theory II. 585 We have given the name of monohybrids to those mongrels whose parents differ from one another in a single elementary character only.

1981 K. Thear in K. Thear & A. Fraser Compl. Bk. Raising Livestock & Poultry i. 9/1 For a long time the Dorking and the Old English Game were the only recognizable breeds of domestic fowl in Britain amongst the farmyard mongrels.

II. Extended uses.

†a. A person of mixed or undefined opinions; (derogatory) a person whose political or religious allegiance, etc., changes according to what is expedient. Obsolete.

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the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [noun] > temporizing or trimming > temporizer or trimmer

Jack of both sides1554

mongrela1555

timeling1554

temporizer1555

time-taker1576

politique1581

time-server1583

time-pleaser1590

time observer1594

temporist1596

please-time1606

timist1614

timorist?1623

trimmer1682

Vicar of Bray1725

timer1842

a1555 J. Bradford in M. Coverdale Certain Lett. Martyrs (1564) 345 The more parte doe parte stakes wythe the papistes and protestantes, so that they are become maungye Mongrelles.

1561 J. Daus tr. H. Bullinger Hundred Serm. vpon Apocalips xx. 127 It were better thou were a synner or an heathen, than an Hipocrite, and a mongerell.

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. viii. 361 Our seuerall Ambassadours..at Constantinople, who rather stay there as Mungrels than absolute Ambassadours.

a1638 J. Mede Wks. (1672) iv. 819 You desired but to know what I thought of Genuflexio versus Altare, and I think I have told you; and you see hereby what a mungrel I am.

1645 Kings Cabinet Opened 48 The King..despiseth you by the name of Mungrells, as not altogether firme enough to his owne designe.

a1677 I. Barrow Of Contentm. (1685) 130 If thou wilt be brave, be brave indeed; singly, and thoroughly; be not a double-hearted mongrel.

1713 J. Addison Cato iii. vi Mongrils in faction, poor faint-hearted traitors!

b. A thing of mixed or intermediate character; a mixture; a combination of two (or occasionally more) different things, qualities, etc.

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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun] > a mixture > of incongruous elements

participle?a1475

mongrel1582

centaur1606

mule1631

crossc1796

half-and-halfc1814

chimera1832

half-breed1846

hybrid1850

piebald1897

1582 R. Mulcaster 1st Pt. Elementarie xvii. 118 Hereby we find that y, in the natur of a consonant is mere English in the natur of a vowell a mungrell, half Greke, half English.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 586 Whose Religion was a mungrell of the Greekish, Egyptian, and their own.

1645 J. Milton Colasterion 26 Though his two faculties of Serving-man and Solliciter, should compound into one mongrel.

1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters xvi. 411 In character he is a sort of mongrel between the thoroughbred jester-clown and the cur errand-boy.

1864 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia IV. xvii. v. 571 Some cart, or dilapidated mongrel between cart and basket.

1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It xvi. 127 The result is a mongrel—half modern glibness, and half ancient simplicity and gravity.

1936 Punch 1 Apr. 376/1 Let us at once impale the new and unnecessary mongrel ‘paramilitary’—‘paramilitary forces (S.A., S.S., Labour Corps and other organisations)’... Why not ‘semi-military’, ‘quasi-military’, or even ‘sub-military’?

1989 Australasian Post (Melbourne) 4 Nov. 4/2 The bike, which Peter describes as a mongrel—part racer, part dragster.

a. A person of low or indeterminate status. Frequently as a term of contempt or abuse, esp. in early use. Occasionally in figurative context. derogatory (now chiefly Australian).

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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior person > [noun] > as abused

warlockOE

swinec1175

beastc1225

wolf's-fista1300

avetrolc1300

congeonc1300

dirtc1300

slimec1315

snipec1325

lurdanc1330

misbegetc1330

sorrowa1350

shrew1362

jordan1377

wirlingc1390

frog?a1400

warianglea1400

wretcha1400

horcop14..

turdc1400

callet1415

lotterela1450

paddock?a1475

souter1478

chuff?a1500

langbain?c1500

cockatrice1508

sow1508

spink1508

wilrone1508

rook?a1513

streaker?a1513

dirt-dauber?1518

marmoset1523

babiona1529

poll-hatcheta1529

bear-wolf1542

misbegotten1546

pig1546

excrement1561

mamzer1562

chuff-cat1563

varlet1566

toada1568

mandrake1568

spider1568

rat1571

bull-beef1573

mole-catcher1573

suppository1573

curtal1578

spider-catcher1579

mongrela1585

roita1585

stickdirta1585

dogfish1589

Poor John1589

dog's facec1590

tar-boxa1592

baboon1592

pot-hunter1592

venom1592

porcupine1594

lick-fingers1595

mouldychaps1595

tripe1595

conundrum1596

fat-guts1598

thornback1599

land-rat1600

midriff1600

stinkardc1600

Tartar1600

tumbril1601

lobster1602

pilcher1602

windfucker?1602

stinker1607

hog rubber1611

shad1612

splay-foot1612

tim1612

whit1612

verdugo1616

renegado1622

fish-facea1625

flea-trapa1625

hound's head1633

mulligrub1633

nightmare1633

toad's-guts1634

bitch-baby1638

shagamuffin1642

shit-breech1648

shitabed1653

snite1653

pissabed1672

bastard1675

swab1687

tar-barrel1695

runt1699

fat-face1740

shit-sack1769

vagabond1842

shick-shack1847

soor1848

b1851

stink-pot1854

molie1871

pig-dog1871

schweinhund1871

wind-sucker1880

fucker1893

cocksucker1894

wart1896

so-and-so1897

swine-hound1899

motherfucker1918

S.O.B.1918

twat1922

mong1926

mucker1929

basket1936

cowson1936

zombie1936

meatball1937

shower1943

chickenshit1945

mugger1945

motherferyer1946

hooer1952

morpion1954

mother1955

mother-raper1959

louser1960

effer1961

salaud1962

gunk1964

scunge1967

a1585 A. Montgomerie Flyting with Polwart 772 Gleyd gangrell, auld mangrell! to the hangrell, and sa pyne.

1602 B. Jonson Poetaster iii. iv. sig. E3^v Why how now, my good brace of Blood-hounds?..you Mungrelles, you Curres, you Bandogges, wee are Captaine Tucca, that talke to you, you inhumane Pilchers.

a1627 T. Middleton Chast Mayd in Cheape-side (1630) ii. 22 How did the Mungrels heare my wife lyes in?

1647 G. Wharton Ireland's War in Wks. (1683) 227 To the intent that this barking mungrel may not delude the ignorant with his pedling trash.

1764 S. Foote Mayor of Garret i. 19 Is that your manners, you mongrel?

1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast viii. 64 We now began to feel like sailors, which we never fully did when we were in the steerage. While there,..you are but a mongrel.

1857 A. Douglas Hist. Ferryden (ed. 2) 85 Ye haena the speerit o' ony man, nor woman nether, 'it ever I kent, an' gif I was ye, I wid..an' mak a grite mangerrel o' myself.

1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda I. ii. xvi. 333 You save an ugly mongrel from drowning and expect him to cut a fine figure.

1919 A. Wright Game of Chance 20 A mongrel she'd known before me..put a tale over on her.

1929 D. H. Lawrence Pansies 126 England was always a country of men... Now it's a country of frightened old mongrels Snapping out of fear.

1974 Meanjin Q. 280 A mate of mine was exterminated like that. In a cellar. Some mongrel dropped a niner through a trapdoor.

1997 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 26 June 3/4 Mrs. Jackson's grandson..was at the house yesterday fitting extra locks. ‘I'd like to get my hands on the mongrel,’ he said.

b. slang. A person who consorts with cheats or gamblers; a sponger. Now historical.

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1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Mongrel, a Hanger on among the Cheats, a Spunger.

1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Mongrel, a hanger on among cheats, a spunger.

1857 Phœnix (Sacramento, Calif.) 20 Sept. 3/2 This mongrel, David, recently lost a sum of money playing ‘draw’.

1961 Listener 16 Nov. 804/1 Two men, known as the falconer and the mongrel in sharp circles, would buy some new books, and print, on separate sheets of paper, a very fulsome dedication.

B. adj. (chiefly attributive and appositive).

I. Senses relating to cross-breeding, miscegenation, or mixed marriage.

1. Chiefly derogatory. Of a person: of mixed descent; having ancestors or parents of different races or nationalities. Also, of a population, race, etc.: of mixed origins.

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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [adjective] > person

mongrel1566

mulatto-like1719

half-breeda1762

mixed breed1775

half-caste1789

half-blood1830

three-quarter-bred1902

quarter-caste1952

biracial1963

multiracial1964

1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. Dvj^v The fellone tongue of Rupilie That traytor mungrill king.

1581 J. Studley tr. Seneca Hippolytus iv, in T. Newton et al. tr. Seneca 10 Trag. f. 58^v Thou seekst..to conceiue in wicked womb a Bastard Mungrell Child.

1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 30 Diuers mungrell Gaules no better than halfe Barbarians.

1672 J. Dryden Conquest Granada i. i. i. 6 Their mungril race is mixt with Christian breed.

1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. i. 10 A mungrel breed of Tyrians and old Africans.

1805 R. Southey Madoc i. xv. 156 To learn that law from Norman or from Dane, Saxon, Jute, Angle, or whatever name Suit best your mongrel race!

1861 London Rev. & Weekly Jrnl. 16 Feb. 187 We Englishmen may be proud of the results to which a mongrel breed and a hybrid race have led us.

1871 C. Darwin Descent of Man I. vii. 225 An immense mongrel population of Negroes and Portuguese.

1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. vii. xxv. 490 Men..unsophisticated by the debilitating Hellenism of a mongrel population.

1905 D. Smith Days of his Flesh viii. 73 The Samaritans..were a mongrel race.

1992 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 19 July 22/3 The SS were dedicated to manufacturing a new human species,..and all who were not of that species were mere disposable digits, mongrel trash.

2. Of a dog: that is a mongrel; of mixed breed; of no definable breed.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [adjective] > mongrel

mongrel1576

1576 A. Fleming tr. J. Caius Of Eng. Dogges 33 It remaineth that we deliuer vnto you the Dogges of a mungrell or currishe kinde.

1679 T. Blount Fragmenta Antiquitatis 10 A Mungrel Hound, for the Chase of the wild Boar.

1694 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 18 133 There followed them two or three Mungrel Curs.

1746 B. Langrish Physical Exper. Brutes 95 I..gave it to a mongrell dog.

1783 J. Hoole tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso II. xvii. 629 When th' exerting voice of village-swains A mungrel cur against the wolf constrains.

1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 120 A little mongrel cur, with bandy legs.

1890 C. L. Morgan Animal Life & Intell. (1891) 168 The bitch retains the influence of the mongrel puppies..and therefore mongrelizes subsequent litters.

1917 E. Wharton Summer xvi. 246 As the buggy drew up two or three mongrel dogs jumped out of the twilight with a great barking.

1941 J. Agee & W. Evans Let us now praise Famous Men 215 The dogs are all mongrel rural hounds.

1967 Jrnl. Pediatrics 70 427/1 Twenty-three mongrel puppies weighing 2.6 to 9 kilograms were studied while lightly anesthetized with thiopental or pentobarbital.

1993 Down East Aug. 82/2 A nasty mongrel female spaniel who bit any potential kibitzer.

3. Designating or relating to an animal or plant produced by the crossing of different breeds, varieties, etc. Cf. sense A. 3.

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the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > heredity or hereditary descent > [adjective] > cross-breeding or hybridization

bigenerous1610

hybridan1623

mongrel1633

hybridous1691

mule1728

hybrid1775

cross-bred1856

hybridizablea1864

paragenesic1864

hybridized1872

cross1886

monohybrid1903

outbred1903

intergeneric1921

polyhybrid1922

reticulate1938

trihybrid1941

inter-strain1950

1633 in C. Rogers Earl of Stirling's Reg. Royal Lett. (1885) II. 660 We are informed that within your boundis ther ar some mangrell haulks.

1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ iii. iv. 54 The Welsh nag..is right, and of no mongrill race.

1768 J. Boswell Acct. Corsica (ed. 2) i. 40 Their sheep being of a mongrel race.

1772 R. Peirson in A. Hunter et al. Georgical Ess. (new ed.) IV. v. 138 Care should be taken that the several kinds of grain, if designed for seed, be sown at as great a distance from each other as possible, to prevent the ill consequences of a mongrel produce.

1810 W. Marshall Rev. Rep. to Board Agric. from Western Dept. Eng. 334 (note) The term in use, for this mixed mongrel crop,..is..mong corn.

1871 C. Darwin Descent of Man II. xv. 156 The result would..be the production..of a mongrel piebald lot [of pigeons].

1902 Brett's Colonists' Guide 28 If the cows are themselves duffers, and are mated to a mongrel bull, the heifer calves cannot turn out very good.

1992 H. Mitchell One Man's Garden iv. 76 All new varieties of apples..or anything else come from sexual blending of two different parents; hence the mongrel nature of..most garden flowers.

II. Extended uses.

a. Chiefly derogatory. Of mixed or doubtful origin, nature, or character; not belonging to any definite type; being neither one thing nor another.

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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [adjective] > of mixed composition or character

linsey-woolsey1565

mongrela1586

piebald1590

sundry1593

party per pale1607

mi-parti1610

hybridan1623

participle1694

ambigenal hyperbola1710

hybrida1716

mulish1729

hybridal1801

mulea1833

mixtiform1837

mongrelized1857

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. K2 Neither the admiration and commiseration, nor the right sportfulnes, is by their mungrell Tragy-comedie obtained.

1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique vi. xxii. 792 Such wines are called mungrell or bastard wines, (which betwixt the sweete and astringent ones) haue neither manifest sweetenes, nor manifest astriction.

1632 High Commission Cases (1886) 319 What is betweene Adam and Christ, halfe a new creature and halfe an ould, a mongrell Christian.

1645 Kings Cabinet Opened 47 He [sc. the king] calls those, who have deserted their trust in Parliament,..by the name of a base, mutinous, and mungrell Parliament.

a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Wilts. 158 These Mungrell Pamphlets (part true, part false,) doe most mischief.

1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. iii. 256 This Zelot Is of a mungrel, diverse kind, Clerick before, and Lay behind.

1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 186 About that time King Hen. 8 [was] setting up a mongrel Religion in the Land.

1702 in Coll. Scarce & Valuable Tracts 4th Collect. (1751) III. 21 A Sort of mungril Church-goers, whose Conformity was not the Result of Principle, but of a luke-warm Compliance with the Humour of the Times.

1762 R. Lloyd Poems 130 That mungrel, half-form'd thing, a Temple-Beau?

1780 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 2) IV. ii. 41 His imitators, without his taste, compounded a mungrel species, that had no boldness, no lightness, and no system.

1826 T. Hood Irish Schoolmaster viii, in Whims & Oddities 124 A mongrel tint, that is ne brown ne blue.

1840 J. H. Newman Church of Fathers viii. 116 [He] had been brought up..a mongrel sort of religionist, part Jew, part Pagan.

1884 W. St. J. Brodrick in Fortn. Rev. June 755 A subservient peerage, elastic principles, and a mongrel policy.

1902 W. M. Alexander Demonic Possession in New Test. vi. 189 That age had witnessed a real return to sorcery & mongrel worship.

1935 L. Woolf Let. 29 Sept. (1990) 401 The idea that people are politically all-white or all-black is false; the mind is mongrel.

1956 J. E. Macdonnell Commander Brady 248 The ladies of this here mongrel joint are puttin' on a gut-rub for Navy gents ternight.

1981 Comments on Etymol. 15 Nov. (Suppl.: Papers in Onomastics) 10 The Mongrel Parliament of 1681 mixed Protestants (Whigs and Tories).

1992 J. Torrington Swing Hammer Swing! xxiii. 207 I nodded just the same though I expected it to be some cheap rotgut of some mongrel distillery, certainly not the pedigree malt Pike seemed to've set his tastebuds on.

b. Of a word, dialect, etc.: made up of elements from different languages; creole.

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the mind > language > a language > [adjective] > creole or mixed

mongrel1610

Creole1726

nativized1933

pidginized1938

1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. 486 A mungrell name halfe Saxon and halfe Latine, Gronnas paludosissimas.

1652 P. Heylyn Cosmographie ii. sig. Tt A Mungrel language, composed of Italian, French, and some Spanish words.

1715 tr. G. Panciroli Hist. Memorable Things Lost I. i. viii. 21 Aurichalcum..is a mungrel Word derived from both those languages [Greek and Latin].

1749 T. Nugent Grand Tour III. 47 There is also a mongrel dialect composed of Italian, French, and some Spanish, which they call lingua franca.

1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. iii. 147 A piebald or mongrel language something like the jargon..of English lawyers in the seventeenth century.

1871 F. W. Farrar Witness of Hist. iii. 93 If they spoke their own language, it bewrayed them by its mongrel dialect.

1908 Illuminating Engineer (London) 1 714/2 The unfortunate name ‘illuminometer’ was given to the instrument, and..this mongrel word is sometimes used at the present day.

1977 Jrnl. Amer. Hist. 63 1021 The practitioner of their [sc. Dutch settlers in Pennsylvania] mongrel language.

5. Of a person: worthless, contemptible. Occasionally in figurative context. derogatory (now chiefly Australian).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > [adjective]

despect1447

contemned1552

unesteemeda1557

mongrela1594

cheap1597

disdained1598

scorned1598

despised1599

dog cheap1606

dishonourable1611

disprizeda1616

jadeda1616

disesteemed1618

misprized1702

disparaged1802

unappreciated1828

vilipended1836

flouted1859

mal vu1904

the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior person > [adjective] > as abused

lousyc1386

greasya1529

mongrela1594

shake rotten1595

strummell-patch1600

thornbackly1605

toad-spotted1608

pissabed1643

shit-breeched1664

shit-breech1675

mole-catching1693

nine-eyed1694

poxya1758

cocksucking1872

bastard1877

motherfucking1890

son-of-a-bitching1902

so-and-so1929

mother-raping1932

zombie1937

chickenshit1940

pissy-arsed1940

bastarding1944

mother-loving1948

mothering1951

a1594 Edmond Ironside ii. ii You lye you horesone Cuckold you bace vacabond you slave you mungrell peasant doulte and foole.

1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear vii. 20 A..knaue,..and the sonne and heire of a mungrell [1623 Mungrill] bitch.

1721 J. Hughes Siege Damascus (ed. 2) v. ii. 62 Perfidious Mungril slave!

1810 I. Harby Gordian Knot iii. vi. 55 Thou art a mongrel villain, thou'st no soul.

1910 A. Bierce Coll. Wks. III. 136 A fellow who has to fight for his bone with a lot of mongrel coolies hasn't any time for foolishness.

1954 T. Ronan Vision Splendid 38 Conversation languished but for the ‘get along, you mongrel bastards!’

1968 D. O'Grady Bottle of Sandwiches 89 Bloody rotten up-jump never-come-down..rotten mongrel bloody stinkin' flamin' mongrel bloody bastard.

Derivatives

ˈmongrelish adj. resembling a mongrel.

ΚΠ

1859 F. Francis Newton Dogvane (1888) 40 A mongrelish-looking, coarse-sterned pointer.

1997 Independent 16 July i. 15/3 Syd's dog—a mongrelish boxer with pugnacious tendencies and a permanently dribbling nose.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mongrel
释义	mongreln.adj. Brit. /ˈmʌŋɡr(ə)l/, /ˈmɒŋɡr(ə)l/, U.S. /ˈmɑŋɡr(ə)l/, /ˈməŋɡr(ə)l/ Forms: late Middle English mengrell, late Middle English 1600s– mongrel, 1500s mongerell, 1500s moungreell, 1500s mungerell, 1500s–1600s mangrel, 1500s–1600s mangrell, 1500s–1600s moungrel, 1500s–1600s mungrell, 1500s–1600s mungrill, 1500s–1700s mongrell, 1500s–1700s mongril, 1500s–1700s mungrel, 1500s–1700s mungril, 1600s mongrill, 1600s moungrill, 1900s– mongreal (Australian); Scottish pre-1700 mangrell, pre-1700 1700s– mangrel, 1700s– mongrel, 1800s mangerrel. Origin: Probably formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mung n.¹, mang v.¹, -rel suffix. Etymology: Probably < mung n.¹ or mang v.¹ + -rel suffix. With form mengrell perhaps compare forms in -e- s.v. ming v.¹The spelling pronunciation with British./ɒ/, U.S. /ɑ/ is first attested in general dictionaries in the second half of the twentieth cent., but is not recorded by major twentieth cent. dictionaries of pronunciation. A. n. I. The offspring or result of cross-breeding, miscegenation, mixed marriage, etc. 1. A dog having parents of different breeds (in quot. c1460 a heraldic representation of such a dog); a dog of no definable breed resulting from various crossings. Also: †the offspring of a wolf and a dog (obsolete rare). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [noun] > mongrel mongrelc1460 limer1538 potlicker1830 kuri1838 mutt1900 mong1903 pooch1908 goorie1937 c1460 Bk. Arms in Ancestor (1903) Jan. 250 (MED) [Azure a fesse gold between ‘quatre mains’ of gold quartered with silver] ij mongrelys of goulys. 1486 Bk. St. Albans sig. fiiij^v A Grehownd, a Bastard, a Mengrell, a Mastyfe. 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 42 Of Mastiues and mungrils [1580 mungrels]. 1576 A. Fleming tr. J. Caius Of Eng. Dogges 43 Of mungrels or rascalls [L. degeneres] somwhat is to be spoken. And among these, y^e Wappe or Turnespet. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 154 Of the mixt kind of Dogs called in English Mangrels or Mongrels. Those we call Mangrels which though they be on both sides, propagated by Dogges, yet are they not of one kind. 1614 T. Overbury et al. Characters in Wife now Widdow (4th impr.) sig. E4 Like a true Mungrell [1615 (7th impr.) mongrell] hee neither bites nor barkes, but when your back is towards him. 1674 London Gaz. No. 945/4 A great old Indian Spaniel, or Mongrel, as big as a Mastiff. 1677 W. Charleton Exercitationes de Differrentiis et Nominibus Animalium (ed. 2) 26 Canis..Lyciscus, a Mongrel, engendered of a Wolf and a Bitch. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 11 His Mungril bark'd, I ran to his relief. 1704 London Gaz. No. 4079/4 A..Greyhound,..with..a brushy Stern like a Mongrel. 1766 O. Goldsmith Elegy Mad Dog in Vicar of Wakefield I. 175 Both mungrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 197 Mongrels, the offspring of the wolf and dog. 1827 T. Hood Plea Midsummer Fairies xx, in Plea Midsummer Fairies & Other Poems 11 A flock of panick'd sheep..Watching the roaming mongrel here and there. 1862 C. S. Calverley Verses & Transl. (ed. 2) 48 A long-backed fancy-mongrel. 1882 M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal III. vi. 106 ‘What kind of dogs did you see in your travels?’... ‘Two or three very fine breeds of mongrels’. 1922 ‘R. Crompton’ Just—William xii. 229 It stopped..with a glad bark of welcome, then stood eager, alert, friendly, a mongrel unashamed. 1945 L. G. Green Where Men still Dream 167 The finest type of Bushman hunting dog, a light brown ridgeback mongrel with dark stripes and a trace of the greyhound in its appearance. 1991 What Dog? 63/1 Many people delight in speculating on the ingredients which went into their mongrel. 2. Chiefly derogatory. A person of mixed descent; a person whose parents are of different nationalities; †a person whose parents are of differing social status (obsolete). Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [noun] > person mongrel1542 of (the) half blood1697 half-caste1758 half-breed1760 lip-lap1798 quarter-breed1821 half-blood1826 half-and-half1827 quarter-blood1827 quarter-caste1859 mixed blooda1862 brown1862 miscegen1864 yellowbelly1867 breed1870 redbone1890 miscegenate1898 high yellow1910 samba1958 lightie1991 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > [noun] > person of obscure parentage mongrel1542 terrae filius1621 society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > lowness of birth > [noun] > person > offspring of parents of high and low birth mongrel1542 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 15 By the waye of reuilyng or despyte, laiynge to the charge of the same Antisthenes that he was a moungreell, and had to his father a citezen of Athenes, but to his mother a woman of a barbarous or saluage countree. 1577 M. Hanmer tr. Socrates Scholasticus v. xxii, in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. 357 Selenas.., a mungrell, by father a Gotth, by mother a Phrygian. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. iv. ii. 140 Being a mungrell, as it were, the one halfe a Noble, the other a Commoner. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. i. 2 I being..borne to the Muses, as to the World, a mungrell to both. 1708 J. Wilson et al. tr. Petronius Satyrical Wks. 62 He's of a right Breed both by Father and Mother, no Mungril. 1735 S.-Carolina Gaz. 15 Mar. 1/2 Some new Gentleman, or rather half Gentleman, or Mongrel, an unnatural Compound of Earth and Brass like the Feet of Nebuchadnezzar's Image. 1784 E. Allen Reason xi. §2. 371 They are uniformly in their respective generations essentially diverse from each other, so that an issue from a male and female of the two nations would be a mongrel, partaking partly of the kind of both nations. 1866 J. G. Edgar Runnymede xxii. 131 Men..of every race, mongrels almost to a man. 1898 F. T. Bullen Cruise ‘Cachalot’ x. 115 Neither do the Arab mongrels..bear any too good a reputation. 1924 Collier's 19 Jan. 33/1 The scum of the earth—sailors from tramp ships—lascars, blacks, Chinese, whites, mongrels—a thoroughbred horse or hound is worth more than a score of them. 1995 New Yorker 27 Mar. 66/1 Affirmative-action opponents have justifiable fun with the puzzle of deciding, in a society of racial mongrels, who, exactly, is black. 3. An animal or plant resulting from the crossing of different types (usually different breeds or varieties), esp. other than by design.In quot. 1558, with reference to the mythical offspring of Pasiphaë and a bull. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > heredity or hereditary descent > [noun] > cross-breeding or hybridism > hybrid or cross mongrel1558 hybrid1601 centaur1606 mulatto1664 half-strain1673 cross1761 cross-breed1774 first cross1793 double-cross1810 quadroon1811 intercross1859 outcross1882 reciprocal1901 filial generation1902 monohybrid1902 vicinist1905 first filial (or F₁) generation1909 polyhybrid1910 back-cross1919 second filial (or F₂) generation1938 1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos vi sig. P.1^v And Minotaure there was, that mongrell uyle of myxed kynd. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 272 These..Ospreies are not thought to be a seuerall kind of Egles by themselues, but to be mungrels, and ingendred of diuers sorts. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Mongrel, a Creature got by two kinds. 1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Hybrid, a mongrel or mule. 1850 D. J. Browne Amer. Poultry Yard 77 The Jersey-Blue Fowl..is another large mongrel of a bluish cast. 1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species viii. 273 The parents of mongrels are varieties, and mostly domestic varieties. 1879 tr. A. de Quatrefages de Bréau Human Species i. vii. 63 This crossing itself is differently named according to whether it takes place between different races or different species. In the first case it produces a mongrel, in the second a hybrid. 1911 J. B. Farmer & A. D. Darbishire tr. H. de Vries Mutation Theory II. 585 We have given the name of monohybrids to those mongrels whose parents differ from one another in a single elementary character only. 1981 K. Thear in K. Thear & A. Fraser Compl. Bk. Raising Livestock & Poultry i. 9/1 For a long time the Dorking and the Old English Game were the only recognizable breeds of domestic fowl in Britain amongst the farmyard mongrels. II. Extended uses. 4. †a. A person of mixed or undefined opinions; (derogatory) a person whose political or religious allegiance, etc., changes according to what is expedient. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [noun] > temporizing or trimming > temporizer or trimmer Jack of both sides1554 mongrela1555 timeling1554 temporizer1555 time-taker1576 politique1581 time-server1583 time-pleaser1590 time observer1594 temporist1596 please-time1606 timist1614 timorist?1623 trimmer1682 Vicar of Bray1725 timer1842 a1555 J. Bradford in M. Coverdale Certain Lett. Martyrs (1564) 345 The more parte doe parte stakes wythe the papistes and protestantes, so that they are become maungye Mongrelles. 1561 J. Daus tr. H. Bullinger Hundred Serm. vpon Apocalips xx. 127 It were better thou were a synner or an heathen, than an Hipocrite, and a mongerell. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. viii. 361 Our seuerall Ambassadours..at Constantinople, who rather stay there as Mungrels than absolute Ambassadours. a1638 J. Mede Wks. (1672) iv. 819 You desired but to know what I thought of Genuflexio versus Altare, and I think I have told you; and you see hereby what a mungrel I am. 1645 Kings Cabinet Opened 48 The King..despiseth you by the name of Mungrells, as not altogether firme enough to his owne designe. a1677 I. Barrow Of Contentm. (1685) 130 If thou wilt be brave, be brave indeed; singly, and thoroughly; be not a double-hearted mongrel. 1713 J. Addison Cato iii. vi Mongrils in faction, poor faint-hearted traitors! b. A thing of mixed or intermediate character; a mixture; a combination of two (or occasionally more) different things, qualities, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun] > a mixture > of incongruous elements participle?a1475 mongrel1582 centaur1606 mule1631 crossc1796 half-and-halfc1814 chimera1832 half-breed1846 hybrid1850 piebald1897 1582 R. Mulcaster 1st Pt. Elementarie xvii. 118 Hereby we find that y, in the natur of a consonant is mere English in the natur of a vowell a mungrell, half Greke, half English. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 586 Whose Religion was a mungrell of the Greekish, Egyptian, and their own. 1645 J. Milton Colasterion 26 Though his two faculties of Serving-man and Solliciter, should compound into one mongrel. 1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters xvi. 411 In character he is a sort of mongrel between the thoroughbred jester-clown and the cur errand-boy. 1864 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia IV. xvii. v. 571 Some cart, or dilapidated mongrel between cart and basket. 1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It xvi. 127 The result is a mongrel—half modern glibness, and half ancient simplicity and gravity. 1936 Punch 1 Apr. 376/1 Let us at once impale the new and unnecessary mongrel ‘paramilitary’—‘paramilitary forces (S.A., S.S., Labour Corps and other organisations)’... Why not ‘semi-military’, ‘quasi-military’, or even ‘sub-military’? 1989 Australasian Post (Melbourne) 4 Nov. 4/2 The bike, which Peter describes as a mongrel—part racer, part dragster. 5. a. A person of low or indeterminate status. Frequently as a term of contempt or abuse, esp. in early use. Occasionally in figurative context. derogatory (now chiefly Australian). ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior person > [noun] > as abused warlockOE swinec1175 beastc1225 wolf's-fista1300 avetrolc1300 congeonc1300 dirtc1300 slimec1315 snipec1325 lurdanc1330 misbegetc1330 sorrowa1350 shrew1362 jordan1377 wirlingc1390 frog?a1400 warianglea1400 wretcha1400 horcop14.. turdc1400 callet1415 lotterela1450 paddock?a1475 souter1478 chuff?a1500 langbain?c1500 cockatrice1508 sow1508 spink1508 wilrone1508 rook?a1513 streaker?a1513 dirt-dauber?1518 marmoset1523 babiona1529 poll-hatcheta1529 bear-wolf1542 misbegotten1546 pig1546 excrement1561 mamzer1562 chuff-cat1563 varlet1566 toada1568 mandrake1568 spider1568 rat1571 bull-beef1573 mole-catcher1573 suppository1573 curtal1578 spider-catcher1579 mongrela1585 roita1585 stickdirta1585 dogfish1589 Poor John1589 dog's facec1590 tar-boxa1592 baboon1592 pot-hunter1592 venom1592 porcupine1594 lick-fingers1595 mouldychaps1595 tripe1595 conundrum1596 fat-guts1598 thornback1599 land-rat1600 midriff1600 stinkardc1600 Tartar1600 tumbril1601 lobster1602 pilcher1602 windfucker?1602 stinker1607 hog rubber1611 shad1612 splay-foot1612 tim1612 whit1612 verdugo1616 renegado1622 fish-facea1625 flea-trapa1625 hound's head1633 mulligrub1633 nightmare1633 toad's-guts1634 bitch-baby1638 shagamuffin1642 shit-breech1648 shitabed1653 snite1653 pissabed1672 bastard1675 swab1687 tar-barrel1695 runt1699 fat-face1740 shit-sack1769 vagabond1842 shick-shack1847 soor1848 b1851 stink-pot1854 molie1871 pig-dog1871 schweinhund1871 wind-sucker1880 fucker1893 cocksucker1894 wart1896 so-and-so1897 swine-hound1899 motherfucker1918 S.O.B.1918 twat1922 mong1926 mucker1929 basket1936 cowson1936 zombie1936 meatball1937 shower1943 chickenshit1945 mugger1945 motherferyer1946 hooer1952 morpion1954 mother1955 mother-raper1959 louser1960 effer1961 salaud1962 gunk1964 scunge1967 a1585 A. Montgomerie Flyting with Polwart 772 Gleyd gangrell, auld mangrell! to the hangrell, and sa pyne. 1602 B. Jonson Poetaster iii. iv. sig. E3^v Why how now, my good brace of Blood-hounds?..you Mungrelles, you Curres, you Bandogges, wee are Captaine Tucca, that talke to you, you inhumane Pilchers. View more context for this quotation a1627 T. Middleton Chast Mayd in Cheape-side (1630) ii. 22 How did the Mungrels heare my wife lyes in? 1647 G. Wharton Ireland's War in Wks. (1683) 227 To the intent that this barking mungrel may not delude the ignorant with his pedling trash. 1764 S. Foote Mayor of Garret i. 19 Is that your manners, you mongrel? 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast viii. 64 We now began to feel like sailors, which we never fully did when we were in the steerage. While there,..you are but a mongrel. 1857 A. Douglas Hist. Ferryden (ed. 2) 85 Ye haena the speerit o' ony man, nor woman nether, 'it ever I kent, an' gif I was ye, I wid..an' mak a grite mangerrel o' myself. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda I. ii. xvi. 333 You save an ugly mongrel from drowning and expect him to cut a fine figure. 1919 A. Wright Game of Chance 20 A mongrel she'd known before me..put a tale over on her. 1929 D. H. Lawrence Pansies 126 England was always a country of men... Now it's a country of frightened old mongrels Snapping out of fear. 1974 Meanjin Q. 280 A mate of mine was exterminated like that. In a cellar. Some mongrel dropped a niner through a trapdoor. 1997 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 26 June 3/4 Mrs. Jackson's grandson..was at the house yesterday fitting extra locks. ‘I'd like to get my hands on the mongrel,’ he said. b. slang. A person who consorts with cheats or gamblers; a sponger. Now historical. ΚΠ 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Mongrel, a Hanger on among the Cheats, a Spunger. 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Mongrel, a hanger on among cheats, a spunger. 1857 Phœnix (Sacramento, Calif.) 20 Sept. 3/2 This mongrel, David, recently lost a sum of money playing ‘draw’. 1961 Listener 16 Nov. 804/1 Two men, known as the falconer and the mongrel in sharp circles, would buy some new books, and print, on separate sheets of paper, a very fulsome dedication. B. adj. (chiefly attributive and appositive). I. Senses relating to cross-breeding, miscegenation, or mixed marriage. 1. Chiefly derogatory. Of a person: of mixed descent; having ancestors or parents of different races or nationalities. Also, of a population, race, etc.: of mixed origins. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [adjective] > person mongrel1566 mulatto-like1719 half-breeda1762 mixed breed1775 half-caste1789 half-blood1830 three-quarter-bred1902 quarter-caste1952 biracial1963 multiracial1964 1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. Dvj^v The fellone tongue of Rupilie That traytor mungrill king. 1581 J. Studley tr. Seneca Hippolytus iv, in T. Newton et al. tr. Seneca 10 Trag. f. 58^v Thou seekst..to conceiue in wicked womb a Bastard Mungrell Child. 1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 30 Diuers mungrell Gaules no better than halfe Barbarians. 1672 J. Dryden Conquest Granada i. i. i. 6 Their mungril race is mixt with Christian breed. 1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. i. 10 A mungrel breed of Tyrians and old Africans. 1805 R. Southey Madoc i. xv. 156 To learn that law from Norman or from Dane, Saxon, Jute, Angle, or whatever name Suit best your mongrel race! 1861 London Rev. & Weekly Jrnl. 16 Feb. 187 We Englishmen may be proud of the results to which a mongrel breed and a hybrid race have led us. 1871 C. Darwin Descent of Man I. vii. 225 An immense mongrel population of Negroes and Portuguese. 1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. vii. xxv. 490 Men..unsophisticated by the debilitating Hellenism of a mongrel population. 1905 D. Smith Days of his Flesh viii. 73 The Samaritans..were a mongrel race. 1992 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 19 July 22/3 The SS were dedicated to manufacturing a new human species,..and all who were not of that species were mere disposable digits, mongrel trash. 2. Of a dog: that is a mongrel; of mixed breed; of no definable breed. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [adjective] > mongrel mongrel1576 1576 A. Fleming tr. J. Caius Of Eng. Dogges 33 It remaineth that we deliuer vnto you the Dogges of a mungrell or currishe kinde. 1679 T. Blount Fragmenta Antiquitatis 10 A Mungrel Hound, for the Chase of the wild Boar. 1694 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 18 133 There followed them two or three Mungrel Curs. 1746 B. Langrish Physical Exper. Brutes 95 I..gave it to a mongrell dog. 1783 J. Hoole tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso II. xvii. 629 When th' exerting voice of village-swains A mungrel cur against the wolf constrains. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 120 A little mongrel cur, with bandy legs. 1890 C. L. Morgan Animal Life & Intell. (1891) 168 The bitch retains the influence of the mongrel puppies..and therefore mongrelizes subsequent litters. 1917 E. Wharton Summer xvi. 246 As the buggy drew up two or three mongrel dogs jumped out of the twilight with a great barking. 1941 J. Agee & W. Evans Let us now praise Famous Men 215 The dogs are all mongrel rural hounds. 1967 Jrnl. Pediatrics 70 427/1 Twenty-three mongrel puppies weighing 2.6 to 9 kilograms were studied while lightly anesthetized with thiopental or pentobarbital. 1993 Down East Aug. 82/2 A nasty mongrel female spaniel who bit any potential kibitzer. 3. Designating or relating to an animal or plant produced by the crossing of different breeds, varieties, etc. Cf. sense A. 3. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > heredity or hereditary descent > [adjective] > cross-breeding or hybridization bigenerous1610 hybridan1623 mongrel1633 hybridous1691 mule1728 hybrid1775 cross-bred1856 hybridizablea1864 paragenesic1864 hybridized1872 cross1886 monohybrid1903 outbred1903 intergeneric1921 polyhybrid1922 reticulate1938 trihybrid1941 inter-strain1950 1633 in C. Rogers Earl of Stirling's Reg. Royal Lett. (1885) II. 660 We are informed that within your boundis ther ar some mangrell haulks. 1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ iii. iv. 54 The Welsh nag..is right, and of no mongrill race. 1768 J. Boswell Acct. Corsica (ed. 2) i. 40 Their sheep being of a mongrel race. 1772 R. Peirson in A. Hunter et al. Georgical Ess. (new ed.) IV. v. 138 Care should be taken that the several kinds of grain, if designed for seed, be sown at as great a distance from each other as possible, to prevent the ill consequences of a mongrel produce. 1810 W. Marshall Rev. Rep. to Board Agric. from Western Dept. Eng. 334 (note) The term in use, for this mixed mongrel crop,..is..mong corn. 1871 C. Darwin Descent of Man II. xv. 156 The result would..be the production..of a mongrel piebald lot [of pigeons]. 1902 Brett's Colonists' Guide 28 If the cows are themselves duffers, and are mated to a mongrel bull, the heifer calves cannot turn out very good. 1992 H. Mitchell One Man's Garden iv. 76 All new varieties of apples..or anything else come from sexual blending of two different parents; hence the mongrel nature of..most garden flowers. II. Extended uses. 4. a. Chiefly derogatory. Of mixed or doubtful origin, nature, or character; not belonging to any definite type; being neither one thing nor another. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [adjective] > of mixed composition or character linsey-woolsey1565 mongrela1586 piebald1590 sundry1593 party per pale1607 mi-parti1610 hybridan1623 participle1694 ambigenal hyperbola1710 hybrida1716 mulish1729 hybridal1801 mulea1833 mixtiform1837 mongrelized1857 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. K2 Neither the admiration and commiseration, nor the right sportfulnes, is by their mungrell Tragy-comedie obtained. 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique vi. xxii. 792 Such wines are called mungrell or bastard wines, (which betwixt the sweete and astringent ones) haue neither manifest sweetenes, nor manifest astriction. 1632 High Commission Cases (1886) 319 What is betweene Adam and Christ, halfe a new creature and halfe an ould, a mongrell Christian. 1645 Kings Cabinet Opened 47 He [sc. the king] calls those, who have deserted their trust in Parliament,..by the name of a base, mutinous, and mungrell Parliament. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Wilts. 158 These Mungrell Pamphlets (part true, part false,) doe most mischief. 1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. iii. 256 This Zelot Is of a mungrel, diverse kind, Clerick before, and Lay behind. 1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 186 About that time King Hen. 8 [was] setting up a mongrel Religion in the Land. 1702 in Coll. Scarce & Valuable Tracts 4th Collect. (1751) III. 21 A Sort of mungril Church-goers, whose Conformity was not the Result of Principle, but of a luke-warm Compliance with the Humour of the Times. 1762 R. Lloyd Poems 130 That mungrel, half-form'd thing, a Temple-Beau? 1780 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 2) IV. ii. 41 His imitators, without his taste, compounded a mungrel species, that had no boldness, no lightness, and no system. 1826 T. Hood Irish Schoolmaster viii, in Whims & Oddities 124 A mongrel tint, that is ne brown ne blue. 1840 J. H. Newman Church of Fathers viii. 116 [He] had been brought up..a mongrel sort of religionist, part Jew, part Pagan. 1884 W. St. J. Brodrick in Fortn. Rev. June 755 A subservient peerage, elastic principles, and a mongrel policy. 1902 W. M. Alexander Demonic Possession in New Test. vi. 189 That age had witnessed a real return to sorcery & mongrel worship. 1935 L. Woolf Let. 29 Sept. (1990) 401 The idea that people are politically all-white or all-black is false; the mind is mongrel. 1956 J. E. Macdonnell Commander Brady 248 The ladies of this here mongrel joint are puttin' on a gut-rub for Navy gents ternight. 1981 Comments on Etymol. 15 Nov. (Suppl.: Papers in Onomastics) 10 The Mongrel Parliament of 1681 mixed Protestants (Whigs and Tories). 1992 J. Torrington Swing Hammer Swing! xxiii. 207 I nodded just the same though I expected it to be some cheap rotgut of some mongrel distillery, certainly not the pedigree malt Pike seemed to've set his tastebuds on. b. Of a word, dialect, etc.: made up of elements from different languages; creole. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > a language > [adjective] > creole or mixed mongrel1610 Creole1726 nativized1933 pidginized1938 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. 486 A mungrell name halfe Saxon and halfe Latine, Gronnas paludosissimas. 1652 P. Heylyn Cosmographie ii. sig. Tt A Mungrel language, composed of Italian, French, and some Spanish words. 1715 tr. G. Panciroli Hist. Memorable Things Lost I. i. viii. 21 Aurichalcum..is a mungrel Word derived from both those languages [Greek and Latin]. 1749 T. Nugent Grand Tour III. 47 There is also a mongrel dialect composed of Italian, French, and some Spanish, which they call lingua franca. 1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. iii. 147 A piebald or mongrel language something like the jargon..of English lawyers in the seventeenth century. 1871 F. W. Farrar Witness of Hist. iii. 93 If they spoke their own language, it bewrayed them by its mongrel dialect. 1908 Illuminating Engineer (London) 1 714/2 The unfortunate name ‘illuminometer’ was given to the instrument, and..this mongrel word is sometimes used at the present day. 1977 Jrnl. Amer. Hist. 63 1021 The practitioner of their [sc. Dutch settlers in Pennsylvania] mongrel language. 5. Of a person: worthless, contemptible. Occasionally in figurative context. derogatory (now chiefly Australian). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > [adjective] despect1447 contemned1552 unesteemeda1557 mongrela1594 cheap1597 disdained1598 scorned1598 despised1599 dog cheap1606 dishonourable1611 disprizeda1616 jadeda1616 disesteemed1618 misprized1702 disparaged1802 unappreciated1828 vilipended1836 flouted1859 mal vu1904 the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior person > [adjective] > as abused lousyc1386 greasya1529 mongrela1594 shake rotten1595 strummell-patch1600 thornbackly1605 toad-spotted1608 pissabed1643 shit-breeched1664 shit-breech1675 mole-catching1693 nine-eyed1694 poxya1758 cocksucking1872 bastard1877 motherfucking1890 son-of-a-bitching1902 so-and-so1929 mother-raping1932 zombie1937 chickenshit1940 pissy-arsed1940 bastarding1944 mother-loving1948 mothering1951 a1594 Edmond Ironside ii. ii You lye you horesone Cuckold you bace vacabond you slave you mungrell peasant doulte and foole. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear vii. 20 A..knaue,..and the sonne and heire of a mungrell [1623 Mungrill] bitch. View more context for this quotation 1721 J. Hughes Siege Damascus (ed. 2) v. ii. 62 Perfidious Mungril slave! 1810 I. Harby Gordian Knot iii. vi. 55 Thou art a mongrel villain, thou'st no soul. 1910 A. Bierce Coll. Wks. III. 136 A fellow who has to fight for his bone with a lot of mongrel coolies hasn't any time for foolishness. 1954 T. Ronan Vision Splendid 38 Conversation languished but for the ‘get along, you mongrel bastards!’ 1968 D. O'Grady Bottle of Sandwiches 89 Bloody rotten up-jump never-come-down..rotten mongrel bloody stinkin' flamin' mongrel bloody bastard. Derivatives ˈmongrelish adj. resembling a mongrel. ΚΠ 1859 F. Francis Newton Dogvane (1888) 40 A mongrelish-looking, coarse-sterned pointer. 1997 Independent 16 July i. 15/3 Syd's dog—a mongrelish boxer with pugnacious tendencies and a permanently dribbling nose. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). mongrelv. Brit. /ˈmʌŋɡr(ə)l/, /ˈmɒŋɡrəl/, U.S. /ˈmɑŋɡr(ə)l/, /ˈməŋɡr(ə)l/ Forms: see mongrel n. and adj. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymons: mongrel n., mongrel adj. Etymology: < either mongrel n. or mongrel adj. Compare mongrelize v. Now rare. transitive. = mongrelize v. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [verb (transitive)] mongrel1602 mongrelize1629 1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida Induct. sig. A4^v Millane being halfe Spanish, halfe high Dutch, and halfe Italians, the blood of the chifest houses, is corrupt and mungrel'd. 1635 J. Jones Adrasta i. i Must thy base attempts looke downeward still? Mongrell our blood? and set a lasting scarre Vpon our progeny? 1662 G. Torriano New Fabrick Ital. Dialogues To Rdr. sig. A2^v, in Piazza Universale (1666) Who beginneth with the best, may at his pleasure decline and speak any other Dialect, and never mongrell the Language. 1941 E. R. Eddison Fish Dinner xix. 337 Every kind of being becomes there, as Time wears, ever more mongreled with the corruption of other kind. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.c1460v.1602
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mongreln.adj.

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mongrelv.