Crossword clues for mongrel
mongrel
- Crossbreeding result
- Tramp, e.g., in "Lady and the Tramp"
- Derogatory term for a variation that is not genuine
- Something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin
- An inferior dog or one of mixed breed
- Not purebred
- Of mixed origin
- No-show at a dog show
- Mutt
- Man's motley friend
- Uncertain blend
- Strange Greek lemon's a hybrid
- Smaller gnome, in 12, has got cross
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mongrel \Mon"grel\, a.
(Zo["o]l.) Not of a pure breed.
Of mixed kinds; as, mongrel language.
Mongrel \Mon"grel\, n. [Prob. shortened fr. mongrel, and akin to
AS. mengan to mix, and E. mingle. See Mingle.]
The progeny resulting from a cross between two breeds, as of
domestic animals; anything of mixed breed.
--Drayton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 Someone or something of mixed kind or uncertain origin; ''especially'', a dog that is such. 2 (context slang Australia English) A thuggish or obnoxious person.
WordNet
Wikipedia
A mongrel is a dog of unknown ancestry that belongs to no single organizationally recognized breed and is not the result of selective breeding.
Mongrel or mongrelization may also refer to:
A mongrel, mixed-breed dog or mutt, is a dog that is not the result of intentional breeding. Estimates place their numbers at 150 million animals. Although the term "mixed-breed dog" is preferred by some, many mongrels have no purebred ancestors. Furthermore, crossbreed dogs, while literally a mix of breeds, differ from mongrels in being intentionally bred. Although mongrels have at times been considered somehow lesser than intentionally bred dogs, they tend to be less susceptible to genetic health problems associated with dog breeding, and have enthusiasts and defenders who prefer them to intentionally bred dogs.
Although mongrels exhibit great variation, generations of uncontrolled breeding and environmental pressures may tend to shape them toward certain general average body types and characteristics known as landraces, some of which may be developed by people into new breeds such as the Alaskan husky.
At other times, the word "mongrel" has been applied to informally purpose-bred dogs such as curs which were created at least in part from mongrels, especially if the breed is not officially recognized.
Mongrel is the third studio album by American rock band The Bob Seger System, released in 1970 (see 1970 in music). Until recently, the album was unavailable on CD or digitally. Rolling Stone reviewed Mongrel on January 7, 1971. Ben Edmonds called the album "...easily [Seger's] best work to date, but there are still some crucial musical problems he must come to grips with if he is to realize the tremendous potential he displayed on his earlier Cameo-Parkway singles (most notably 'Heavy Music' and 'Persecution Smith')." [The reference failed to mention "East Side Story", which many would consider to be a significant oversight.]
Edmonds continued: "[Seger] writes marvelous rock and roll songs in the virile 1965 mold, somewhat of a lost art these days." The band itself, however, he said, is "like Mountain" and "often degenerates into 'heavy' overstatements of the most cliched sort." Edmonds called "Lucifer" the strongest cut on the album, but his review may have had a dampening effect on sales.
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Mongrel is the third full-length album by American math metal band The Number Twelve Looks Like You. Recorded in Seattle over a four-month period, it is the follow-up to 2005's Nuclear. Sad. Nuclear.. In its opening week, it reached a Peak Position of 19 on the Top Heatseeker, and 34 on top Independent Albums Billboard Charts.
This album adds progressive metal, thrash metal, salsa, funk and many more genres to the band's sound.
On April 12, 2015 the album was re-released on limited addition, hand numbered cassettes.
Mongrel is an open-source software HTTP library and web server written in Ruby by Zed Shaw. It is used to run Ruby web applications and presents a standard HTTP interface. This makes layering other servers in front of it possible using a web proxy, a load balancer, or a combination of both, instead of having to use more conventional methods employed to run scripts such as FastCGI or SCGI to communicate. This is made possible by integrating a custom high-performance HTTP request parser implemented using Ragel.
Mongrel was the first web server used by Twitter, and inspired Node.js according to Ryan Dahl.
Shaw subsequently created Mongrel2, an open-source " language agnostic" web server and the successor to Mongrel server.
Mongrel are a British-Irish band formed in 2008, by former Arctic Monkeys bassist Andy Nicholson. Alongside Nicholson in the band are Jon McClure and Joe Moskow, both of Reverend and the Makers, Babyshambles bassist Drew McConnell and Matt Helders from Arctic Monkeys as well as London rapper Lowkey from the Poisonous Poets.
Mongrel released their first album Better Than Heavy on 7 March 2009. The content of their music is political, with the majority of their songs having lyrics which challenge government issues. The band have announced they will play a show at London's Boston Arms on 5 November, with a four track digital EP due for release the same day. Released on the Wall of Sound label, the EP feature debut track "The Menace".
For the album, McClure stated "We had Saul Williams come in and do a thing on it and hopefully M.I.A. is going to do something and maybe Pete Doherty. It's got a good flavour... We're really taking a few people to task, kind of like we're Public Enemy or something." In an interview with The Guardian, McClure also expressed a desire to record in Venezuela and work with Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez for the band's second album.
Mongrel was an arts, culture and news magazine published nationwide in Ireland between 2003 and 2008. Founded by Sam Bungey and Yousef Eldin, Mongrel published 38 issues, and was notable for its irreverent editorial and high-end production printed in full colour with perfect binding.
The magazine ran a number of high profile cover stories. Notable profiles included former Irish taoiseach Bertie Ahern; Sheriff Joe Arpaio; George Galloway; exiled leader of the Al Aqsa Martyr Brigade, Jihad Ja'Ara; and Ron Paul. Musicians interviewed include My Morning Jacket, Roots Manuva ; M.I.A., The Republic of Loose, Rufus Wainwright and Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips. For issue 3, the magazine commissioned Miss World to interview a local Dublin DJ.
Memorable features included a look at the reborn doll industry, and a guide to going bald.
Mongrel was embroiled in controversy in 2005 for its publication of "The Cunts List", which ranked notable people and organisations who were unlikable or morally reprehensible in the view of the magazine. The story was featured on the cover of The Sun when Irish chat show host Pat Kenny slammed the publishers as "low-life" in response to the article, which branded Kenny a "shithead and a moron" The magazine published an exclusive interview with the sitting Taoiseach on the eve of the 2007 general election.
The magazine was also notable for its contributors, a generation of Ireland's leading young names in writing, photography, illustration, styling, and graphic design who have gone on to develop significant careers in their individual professions.
Contributors included: musician, Shane MacGowan; writers Mark O'Connell, Eoin Butler, Larry Ryan, Rob Sixsmith, Tim Walker; stylist Celestine Cooney, photographers Niall O'Brien and Ross McDonnell.
Mongrel closed in February 2008 with the last issue's cover design inspired by an Irish Mass card often sent at funerals.
Usage examples of "mongrel".
Rumbo was a mongrel, what men might have called a petty criminal had they been able to read his mind.
He was a bony mongrel, about five or six years old, an amalgamation of several breeds.
A uniformed policeman arrived at the yard and asked one of the breakers if there were two black mongrel dogs on the premises.
The shoppers must have been puzzled by the thoughtful-looking mongrel who paced up and down that street, peering up at passing faces, snooping into shop doorways.
Professor Webb, for several among his mongrel prisoners had repeated to him what older celebrants had told them the words meant.
I did not wonder, for what thoughts must arise upon hearing, after a knowledge of what Legrasse had learned of the cult, of a sensitive young man who had dreamed not only the figure and exact hieroglyphics of the swamp-found image and the Greenland devil tablet, but had come in his dreams upon at least three of the precise words of the formula uttered alike by Esquimaux diabolists and mongrel Louisianans?
I visited New Orleans, talked with Legrasse and others of that old-time raiding-party, saw the frightful image, and even questioned such of the mongrel prisoners as still survived.
Sir, that what--the squire--got from those mongrel savages was but a small part of the larning he came to have.
Many of the crowded family degenerated, moved across the valley, and merged with the mongrel population which was later to produce the pitiful squatters.
He wanted so desperately to believe it that he imagined himself shouting at the mongrel for scaring him half out of his mind.
Confronted on the one hand with a number of persons bent on reporting the incident to the Deputy-Ranger, and on the other by a delinquent mongrel owned by a Young Person unattended by a footman, or a maid, they saw their duty clear before them: Lufra, the elder of the two awfully told Frederica, must be handed over to them, to be kept in custody until a magistrate should pronounce his fate.
He said that Miss was coming it too strong, adding that while he knew nothing about Barcelona collies he did know a mongrel when he saw one.
The new dog was in the kitchen, a mongrel which Willie had found and which gazed from its basket hardly able to credit its luck.
The dog was an unkempt black-and-brown mongrel with a reprieved expression.
After all, in the world of the future, a world of merchants and mechanics, the base impulses of the mongrel are those that will dominate.