mongrel

About 0.36 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Anything of mixed kind. A dog with a lineage of two or more breeds.

   That dog is a mongrel; who knows what breed it could be!

2. noun A dog with a lineage of two or more breeds.

   That dog is a mongrel; who knows what breed it could be!

3. noun A person of mixed race.
4. noun A thuggish, obnoxious, or contemptible person; a pitiable person.
5. noun An erect penis; an erection.
6. adjective Of mixed breed, nature, or origin; of or like a mongrel.

   English spelling is often regarded as confusing and unpredictable due to the mongrel nature of that language.

Similar words

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Often followed by

dogs dog race and of breed offspring manhattan with

Word family

mongrelization mongrelizations mongrelize mongrelized mongrelizes mongrelizing mongrels