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mongrel

/muhng-gruhl, mong-/US // ˈmʌŋ grəl, ˈmɒŋ- //UK // (ˈmʌŋɡrəl) //

杂牌军,混混,羼杂,羼杂物

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a dog of mixed or indeterminate breed.
    • : any animal or plant resulting from the crossing of different breeds or varieties.
    • : any cross between different things, especially if inharmonious or indiscriminate.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of mixed breed, nature, or origin; of or like a mongrel.

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Examples

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

  • 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.

  • He has called the president of the United States a “subhuman mongrel,” and only Hunter S. Thompson can do that.

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

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

  • Yet how came it that even a low-caste mongrel of a Lascar should offer such an overt insult to a Brahmin!

  • Diard's mongrel position, which he himself made still more questionable, brought him great troubles.

  • With our door ajar we watched the ghastly struggle between the faithful mongrel and the assassin.

  • But he was such a forlornly muddy mongrel pup, and so eloquent of tail, that I spoke his name on an impulse, and put out my hand.

  • And a mongrel followed faithfully all the time unnoticed, and wondering, perhaps, at his master.