mutt
noun/mʌt/ · Northern-England /mʊt/
Etymology Clipping of muttonhead.
1
A mongrel dog (or sometimes cat); an animal of mixed breed or uncertain origin.
- Mr. Beerbelly, Beerbelly / Get these mutts away from me / You know, I don't find this stuff amusing anymore1986, Paul Simon, “You Can Call Me Al”, in Graceland:
2
Derogatory, Humorous, Usually A person of mixed racial or ethnic ancestry.
- Soon, we will no longer be an outpost of Europe, but a nation of mutts, a nation with hundreds of fluid ethnicities from around the world, intermarrying and intermingling. Americans of European descent are already a minority among 5-year-olds. […] Immigration reform or not, the nation of mutts is coming.2013 June 28, David Brooks, “A Nation of Mutts”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 12 Nov 2020:
3
Internet, Broadly, Derogatory A person from the United States.
4
US, Derogatory, Slang An idiot, a stupid person.
- “I knew you weren’t such a mutt as you looked,” she cried.1923, Agatha Christie, The Murder on the Links:
- I must say I think Chloe was a bit of a mutt to walk on the bed and then leave a button somewhere about. She might have learned better than that from the pictures surely.1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries:
2 more examples
- Mother fuckin' mutt! You, you fucking piece of shit!1990, Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese, Goodfellas, spoken by Tommy DeVito (Joe Pesci):
- “He’s so blatantly stupid. He’s a punk. He’s a dog. He’s a pig. A con. A bullshit artist. A mutt who doesn’t know what he’s talking about,” he said, among many other things, in a video.2019 November 20, Luke O'Neil, quoting Robert De Niro, “Robert De Niro v Trump: a complete history of a (mainly one-sided) beef”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 18 Apr 2020:
5
Derogatory, Slang An ugly woman.
- Too bad the guys' wife is a total mutt. I guess he wants to achieve a less stressful life; he married ugly.2007, Lewis Korn, Ice Cold (page 49)
6
Slang The snowy sheathbill.
- Related terms
- bitsa, bitser, bitzer, cur, Heinz 57, mongrel, Mutt and Jeff