英和和英

語源 1

Clipping of muttonhead.

名詞

mutt (plural mutts)

1. A mongrel dog (or sometimes cat); an animal of mixed breed or uncertain origin.

   Synonym: (US, humorous, informal) Heinz 57

   Coordinate term: moggy

   • 1986, Paul Simon, “You Can Call Me Al”, in Graceland:

     Mr. Beerbelly, Beerbelly / Get these mutts away from me / You know, I don't find this stuff amusing anymore

2. (usually derogatory or humorous) A person of mixed racial or ethnic ancestry.
   • 2013 June 28, David Brooks, “A Nation of Mutts”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, archived from the original on 12 November 2020:

     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 slang, derogatory, by extension) A person from the United States.
   • 2019 December 11, anonymous author, 4chan‎, /bant/:

     Kys degenerate cumbrain. Satisfying fetishes that seem mean is one thing, but you should always respect your own people, no matter how "shit" or "retarded" they are. Not that I'd expect a demoralized amerifat to understand. You probably fuck different races or other mutts anyway so the love for your own blood is probably not there.

4. (chiefly US, slang, derogatory) An idiot, a stupid person.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:idiot

   • 1923, Agatha Christie, The Murder on the Links:

     “I knew you weren’t such a mutt as you looked,” she cried.

   • 1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries:

     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.

   • 1990, Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese, Goodfellas‎, spoken by Tommy DeVito (Joe Pesci):

     Mother fuckin' mutt! You, you fucking piece of shit!

   • 2019 November 20, Luke O'Neil, quoting Robert De Niro, “Robert De Niro v Trump: a complete history of a (mainly one-sided) beef”, in The Guardian‎, archived from the original on 18 April 2020:

     “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, derogatory) An ugly woman.
   • 2007, Lewis Korn, Ice Cold, page 49:

     Too bad the guys' wife is a total mutt. I guess he wants to achieve a less stressful life; he married ugly.

6. (Antarctica, slang) The snowy sheathbill.

派生語

参考

• bitsa, bitser, bitzer
• cur
• Heinz 57
• mongrel
• Mutt and Jeff

参照

• (ugly woman): Tony Thorne (2014), “mutt”, in Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, 4th edition, London;  […]: Bloomsbury

語源 2

名詞

mutt (plural mutts)

1. Alternative form of matha.