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Meaning of mongrel in English

mongrel
noun [ C ]
us
/ˈmʌŋ.ɡrəl/ uk
/ˈmʌŋ.ɡrəl/
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a dog whose parents are of different breeds
Synonyms
cur (DOG) literary
mutt (DOG) mainly US
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mongrel
adjective
  disapproving
us
/ˈmʌŋ.ɡrəl/ uk
/ˈmʌŋ.ɡrəl/
used to describe something of mixed origin:
Some people call English a mongrel language because it is a mixture of old German and French.
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(Definition of mongrel from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

mongrel | Intermediate English

mongrel
noun [ C ]
us
/ˈmɑŋ·ɡrəl, ˈmʌŋ-/
(infml mutt)
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a dog of mixed breed
(Definition of mongrel from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of mongrel

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More must be done to catch these low life mongrels.
From National Geographic
The future of advertising will belong to mongrels and will be about people at the core.
From Huffington Post
Range and her colleagues tested nine wolves and eight mongrel dogs.
From Phys.Org
These little curtailed mongrels were the ones put into the wheels.
From NPR
At worst, the credit allocation rule is some mongrel empirical relationship, conflating the demand and supply of credit, neither of which is explicitly modeled.
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This study was set out to evaluate the feasibility, safety and efficacy of creating a stented fenestration of the atrial septum in mongrel dogs.
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This study was set out to evaluate the feasibility, safety and efficacy of creatinga stented fenestration of the atrial septum in mongrel dogs.
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Experiments were performed on anesthetized mongrel dogs under extracorporeal circulation.
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Homogeneity of design would suggest a regime type of its own, not simply a mongrel occupant of a residual category.
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The purpose of this study was to investigate angiographically and histologically the vascular responses to implantation of stents in the aorta and pulmonary arteries in normal mongrel puppies.
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They only saw the thing he hated--the mongrel breed of a degraded nation.
From Project Gutenberg
The mongrels of the jackal and the dog are so from the fourth.
From Project Gutenberg
Moreover, if we unite these mongrels to one of the two primitive species, they soon revert completely and totally to that species.
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He could dominate these mongrels and make them subservient.
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He was a mongrel-looking creature, but he couldn't have been friendlier.
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Translations of mongrel

in Chinese (Traditional)
雜種狗, 雜種的，來源混雜的…
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杂种狗, 杂种的，来源混杂的…
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perro mestizo, mestizo…
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vira-lata, sem raça definida…
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melez/kırma köpek, melez köpek…
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bâtard…
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bastaard-…
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kříženec…
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blanding…
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anjing kampung…
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chó lai…
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kundel…
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blandras, byracka…
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baka kacukan…
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der Mischling…
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kjøter, bastard…
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дворняжка, нечистокровний (собака чи інша тварина)…
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дворняжка…
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