Definitions for mongrel

mongrel mon·grel

Spelling: [muhng-gruh l, mong-]
IPA: /ˈmʌŋ grəl, ˈmɒŋ-/

Mongrel is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 179 anagrams from letters in mongrel (eglmnor).

Definitions for mongrel

noun

  1. a dog of mixed or indeterminate breed.
  2. any animal or plant resulting from the crossing of different breeds or varieties.
  3. any cross between different things, especially if inharmonious or indiscriminate.

adjective

  1. of mixed breed, nature, or origin; of or like a mongrel.

Origin of mongrel

1425-75; late Middle English (once): heraldic term for a type of dog; equivalent to mong(e) mixture (Old English gemang; cf. mingle) + -rel

Examples for mongrel

They are not so band-boxy as they were, but remind me of an old, mongrel dog I once owned.

Fertility of Varieties when crossed, and of their mongrel offspring.

You have only to stand up to them, and they curl up like mongrel curs.

I have my eye on a mongrel in Somerstown who keeps three boys.

The dog was a mongrel, maybe 35 pounds, and the kid was trying to balance it in front of him on the frame of his bicycle.

Miscegenation would follow and a mongrel race would be the result.

On the one hand, Wilfred is a pot-smoking, hard-drinking, Matt Damon-loving, mongrel dog.

Sam Bungey grew up in London, went to university in Dublin and co-founded mongrel, a monthly magazine about Irish youth culture.

A mongrel and anomalous species like the German Meerkatzen—monkey-cats.

These mongrel people will fight for their women when they will fight for nothing else.

Word Value for mongrel
Scrable

10

Words with friends

14

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