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[muht] 
–noun Slang.
| 1. | a dog, esp. a mongrel. |
| 2. | a stupid or foolish person; simpleton. |
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| mutt (mŭt) n. Informal
[Short for muttonhead.] Word History: Clipping not of sheep but of a word having to do with sheep has given us our term mutt for a mongrel dog. Clipping or abbreviating words, a standard process of word formation, sheared mutt from muttonhead, a pejorative term meaning "a stupid person" based on the notion that sheep are stupid. Mutt in its first recorded use in 1901 is used in the same senses as muttonhead, but it is soon recorded (1904) as a term of contempt for a horse and then (1906) for a dog. We can be reasonably certain that the New Yorker critic writing in 1970 that "The cast includes a Sheepdog, . . . a Mutt Bitch," had no awareness that a sheepdog would make the ideal mutt. |
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mutt
1901, "stupid or foolish person," probably a shortening of muttonhead (1803); meaning "a dog," especially "a mongrel" is from 1904, originally simply a term of contempt.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Language Translation for : mutt
Spanish:
topotopo,
German:
der Maulwurf,
Japanese:
もぐら
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