mutt

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
6
Words With Friends
8
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/mʌt/
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/mʌt/ · /mʊt/

Definition of mutt

6 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  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 anymore”
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noun

  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 anymore”
  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.”
  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.”
    “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.”
    “Mother fuckin' mutt! You, you fucking piece of shit!”
    ““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.”
  5. (slang)The snowy sheathbill.
  6. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of matha.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

Clipping of muttonhead.

Words you can make from mutt

6 playable · top: MUT (5 pts)

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3-letter words

2 words

2-letter words

3 words

Hooks

1 extension · 1 back

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