# mutt
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mʌt/
* Audio (US):(file)
* (Northern England) IPA: /mʊt/
* Rhymes: -ʌt

### Etymology 1

Clipping of muttonhead.

#### Noun

mutt (plural mutts)
* 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 (lyrics and music), “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
* (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: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.
* (chiefly US, slang, derogatory) An idiot, a stupid person.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:idiot
** 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:“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.
* (Internet slang, derogatory) A person from the United States, in reference to sense 2.
    (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)
* (Antarctica, slang) The snowy sheathbill.

##### Translations
#### See also

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

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

mutt (plural mutts)
* Alternative form of matha

## Estonian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmutʲː/, [ˈmutʲː]

### Etymology 1

Unknown.

#### Noun

mutt (genitive muti, partitive mutti)
* mole (animal)

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

From German Mutti (“mom; mommy”).

#### Noun

mutt (genitive muti, partitive mutti) (colloquial)
* old woman
* hag

##### Declension
### Etymology 3

From Russian мутник (mutnik), from мути́ть (mutítʹ, “to cloud, muddy”) + -ник (-nik).

#### Noun

mutt (genitive muti, partitive mutti)
* A traditional fishing net used to catch small fish.

##### Declension
### Etymology 4

From German Mutt.

#### Noun

mutt (genitive muti, partitive mutti)
* (nautical) cringle (grommet on a sail)

##### Declension
### References

* mutt in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
* “mutt”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
* ↑ “mutt”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology 1

From Northern Sami muottá, genitive and accusative singular of muoddá.

#### Alternative forms

* mudd (alternative form based on the nominative form of the Samic origin)

#### Noun

mutt m (definite singular mutten, indefinite plural muttar, definite plural muttane)
* (clothing) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

### Etymology 2
#### Adjective

mutt (indefinite singular mutt, definite singular and plural mutte, comparative muttare, indefinite superlative muttast, definite superlative muttaste)
* grumpy

### References

* “mutt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.