单词 | mongreldom |
释义 | mongreldomn. The condition or quality of being mongrel or hybrid. ΚΠ 1867 Weekly Disp. 7 Apr. 9/1 If Canada can stretch westward before the States can stretch westward and northward, Columbia will be held for the British race; if not, the strange mongreldom of everything from Anglo-Saxon to Chinese will get up another populous community on the Pacific shore. 1884 R. D. Blackmore Hist. Sir T. Upmore II. ii. 17 What marvel, that we have sold our birth-right to an acephalous mollusk, when the simple use of the tongue has passed into such headless mongreldom? 1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 9 Jan. 2/1 [The dog] began to develop undoubted signs of mongreldom. 1948 in B. Vesey-Fitzgerald Bk. Dog 74 There is something about him [sc. the long-coated dachshund] which suggests mongreldom. 1968 G. Jones Hist. Vikings iii. iii. 206 Their mongreldom of race, culture, religion, and political interest endeared them to nobody. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1867 |
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