mutt

or mut

[ muht ]

noun

, Slang.

1. a dog, especially a mongrel.
2. a stupid or foolish person; simpleton.

mutt

/ mʌt /

noun

1. an inept, ignorant, or stupid person
2. a mongrel dog; cur

Word History and Origins

Origin of mutt¹

1900–05, Americanism; short for muttonhead

Word History and Origins

Origin of mutt¹

C20: shortened from muttonhead

Example Sentences

Visit an animal shelter, pick out the sorriest mutt you can find, and then put it down.

From The Daily Beast

Like all white Americans, I'm a mutt: a little English, a little Irish, a little German.

From The Daily Beast

Hayes and Komisarjevsky were “a Mutt and Jeff pair; the whole thing happened because they were inside together.”

From The Daily Beast

It took 16 years before the last survivor, a mutt named Musketeer, expired.

From The Daily Beast

You listened to the very people who created our economic meltdown, the Mutt and Jeff team of Larry Summers and Tim Geithner.

From The Daily Beast

You take a common ancestral mutt, and generations later you can develop an Airedale, a dachshund or a Spitz.

From Project Gutenberg

I don't have to be first with you, Pete, or anybody else, but I'm not going to run second to a dish-faced mutt.

From Project Gutenberg

A lady mutt first made it into orbit, ahead of any people, remember?

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But say, it was worth the price of admission to see that old mutt when he got up, he looked like Santa Claus.

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An' Mulligan's an Irishman an' mean—say, he's the meanest mutt you ever see.

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