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mongrel noun & adjective. LME.
[App. from base meaning 'mix' (cf. MENG, MONG noun1) + -REL.]
A. noun.
A dog whose sire and dam are of different breeds. Chiefly & now only, a dog of no definable breed resulting from various crossings. LME.
R. Crompton It..stood eager, alert, friendly, a mongrel unashamed.
b. As a term of abuse: a contemptible person, a cur. Now Austral. L16.
A person of mixed descent; a person whose parents are of different nationalities or (formerly) differing social status. offensive. M16.
J. G. Edgar Men..of every race, mongrels almost to a man.
a. A person of mixed or undefined opinions; a person whose political allegiance etc. varies according to expediency. derog. M16-E18.
b. A thing of mixed or intermediate character; a cross, a hybrid. derog. E17.
Carlyle Some cart, or dilapidated mongrel between cart and basket.
c. An animal or plant resulting from the crossing of different types (usually, different breeds or varieties), esp. other than by design. L17.
b. adjective.
Of a dog: that is a mongrel, of no definable breed. L16.
b. Worthless, contemptible. E17-E18.
Shakespeare King Lear A knave, a rascal..and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch.
c. Of an animal or plant: produced by the crossing of different varieties etc. (Cf. sense A.3c above.) M17.
Boswell Their sheep being of a mongrel race.
Of mixed origin, nature, or character; not referable to any definite species or type; being neither one thing nor the other. derog. L16.
P. Sidney Neither the admiration and commiseration, nor the right sportfulnes, is by their mungrell Tragy-comedie obtained.
b. Of a word, dialect, etc.: made up of elements from different languages. E17.
E. O. M. Deutsch The Aramaic..had become..a mongrel idiom.
Of a person: of mixed descent, having parents or ancestors of different nationalities. offensive. E17.
Southey To learn that law from Norman or from Dane, Saxon..or whatever name Suit best your mongrel race!
mongreldom noun = mongrelism L19.
mongrelism noun the condition or quality of being mongrel or hybrid L16.
mongreli'zation noun the action or process of mongrelizing someone or something; mongrelism: L19.
mongrelize verb trans. make mongrel in breed, race, composition, or character E17.
mongrelly adjective resembling a mongrel M19.