| 单词 | mongrel |
| 释义 | mongrel (once / 3657 pages) n Some people have purebred dogs, but you might have a mongrel — a mutt that is part this, part that, and part the other thing (but to you he's a 100 percent dog and your best friend). Mongrel has the Middle English root word mong, which meant "mix." If you use the word mongrel to refer to the mixed ancestry of a dog or other animal, you may or may not intend to be insulting. If you refer to a human as a mongrel, you are definitely making a pejorative comment about that person's origins. In this use, it is considered an insult. WORD FAMILYmongrel: mongrelise, mongrelize, mongrels+/mongrelize: mongrelized, mongrelizing USAGE EXAMPLESOn 8 September 1940, Marcel Ravidat’s black-and-white mongrel, Robot, dived into a hole in the ground in pursuit of a rabbit. The Guardian(Dec 03, 2016) It was the Klan’s job to rescue white women from the black devils who were trying to rape them and create a mongrel race. The New Yorker(Nov 13, 2016) Yet for all the grief he was given, nobody ever called him a “subhuman mongrel.” Seattle Times(Nov 06, 2016) 1n derogatory term for a variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin Syn|Hyper bastard variation an artifact that deviates from a norm or standard 2n an inferior dog or one of mixed breed Syn|Hypo|Hyper cur, mutt feist, fice a nervous belligerent little mongrel dog pariah dog, pie-dog, pye-dogownerless half-wild mongrel dog common around Asian villages especially India Canis familiaris, dog, domestic dog a member of the genus Canis (probably descended from the common wolf) that has been domesticated by man since prehistoric times; occurs in many breeds |
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