Synonyms for mutt

Grammar : Noun

Spell : muht

Phonetic Transcription : mʌt

Définition of mutt

Origin : 1901, "stupid or foolish person," American English, probably a shortening of muttonhead (1803); meaning "a dog," especially "a mongrel" is from 1904, originally simply a term of contempt, but perhaps this is a separate word of unknown derivation.

noun scruffy dog

Example sentences :

I should be a mutt if I didn't, so I'm going to spend it my own way.
Extract from : « T. Tembarom » by Frances Hodgson Burnett

You want to make him feel like a mutt; and a mutt's the worst kind of a fool.
Extract from : « T. Tembarom » by Frances Hodgson Burnett

If he wakes up, and I'm asleep, nurse, you can tell him from me that I'm a mutt.
Extract from : « William Adolphus Turnpike » by William Banks

Now, however, the Jogis had warned him that their Mutt was no longer safe.
Extract from : « Tara » by Philip Meadows Taylor

Well, if that's a duke all I've got to say is I think he's a mutt.
Extract from : « Making Money » by Owen Johnson

What's the use talking to a mutt that don't understand the English language at all?
Extract from : « Abe and Mawruss » by Montague Glass

The Setti is appointed by the community, after the office itself has been created by the Simhasanadhipati of the mutt.
Extract from : « Castes and Tribes of Southern India » by Edgar Thurston

“That mutt Sondheim looks like a bad one to me, and the other guy––Kastner,” he observed gloomily.
Extract from : « The Crimson Tide » by Robert W. Chambers

Nothing but a few words from a mutt who must have spent most of his time playin' hooky when he went to school.
Extract from : « Motor Matt's Race » by Stanley R. Matthews

Mutt′on-sū′et, the fat about the kidneys and loins of sheep; Mutt′on-thump′er, a clumsy bookbinder.
Extract from : « Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) » by Various

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