Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A mongrel dog.
  • noun A stupid person; a dolt.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun An dog that is of inferior quality or of mixed breed.

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  • noun A mongrel dog; a dog of mixed breed or uncertain origin.
  • noun figuratively, sometimes pejorative A person of diverse ancestry.
  • noun slang As a term of abuse: an idiot, a stupid person.

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  • noun an inferior dog or one of mixed breed

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Short for muttonhead.]

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From mutton-head

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  • At his first news conference after his election as President, Barack Obama, referred to himself as a mutt when asked what kind of dog his daughters were getting:

    With respect to the dog, this is a major issue. We have…we have two criteria that have to be reconciled. One is that Malia is allergic, so it has to be hypo-allergenic. There are a number of breeds that are hypo-allergenic. On the other hand, our preference would be to get a shelter dog. But obviously, a lot of shelter dogs are mutts, like me.

    July 11, 2009