mongrel n.
1. in UK Und. senses.
(a) an accomplice who helps in a confidence trickster’s pose as a poor scholar.
Lanthorne and Candle-Light Ch. 5: He that walkes the horses, and hunts dry foote, is cald a Mongrel . |
(b) a hanger-on among confidence tricksters, a sponger.
Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Mongrel c. a Hanger on among the Cheats, a Spunger. | ||
New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698]. | ||
, , , | Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698]. | |
, , | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
Lex. Balatronicum. | ||
Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. |
2. (also mungrel) a general term of abuse, e.g. you bloody mongrel [despite the synon. of mongrel and half-breed, there appears to be no racial implication].
Invectiues Capitane Allexander Montgomeree and Pollvart in Parkinson Poems (2000) IX line 46: Gleyit gangrell, auld mangrell, to thy hangrell vith pyne. | ||
Scornful Lady II iii: Steward, you are an ass, a measled mongrel. | ||
Love’s Cure II i: Thou Mungril [...] are not you he that was whipt out of Toledo for Perjury? | ||
Whiggs Supplication Pt II 19: Your cursed Antichristian Rable, Ye Mungrels of the Whore of Babel. | ||
Maid the Mistress V i: Hark ye, Mungrels, what do you grin at? | ||
Humours of Oxford II i: Why, thou Mungrel, thou thing of the doubtful Gender, how can’st thou have the consummate Impudence, to open thy Mouth. | ||
Mayor of Garrat in Works (1799) I 171: Is that your manners, you mongrel? | ||
Pettyfogger Dramatized I i: He is a fellow I don’t much care about; he is an impudent mongrel. | ||
School For Grown Children IV i: Silence, mongrel! | ||
Mr Mathews’ Comic Annual 14: After threatening to lay hold of the Black mongrel by the gills, and pull him about like a salmon. | ||
In Cap and Gown (1889) 145: Oh, curse the mongrel, he’s not worth a groat! | ‘The Snobiad and Gown Row in Cambridge’ in Whibley||
Gloucester Citizen 16 May 4/2: She accused him of calling her son Israel a ‘mongrel’ and then struck him in the mouth with a dish cloth. | ||
Such is Life 10: Go an’ bark up a tree, you mongrel! | ||
Truth (Wellington) 26 Oct. 7/1: Campbell, you are a dirty mongrel. | ||
(con. WWI) Somme Mud 37: Suppose you chaps think I’m a bloomin’ mongrel for doing that? | ||
Ulysses 443: Give him ginger. Thrash the mongrel within an inch of his life. | ||
Boy in Bush 244: ‘Wot cheer, mate!’ said one, a ruffianly mongrel. | ||
Haxby’s Circus 110: There had never been a Haxby like this, he said, such a wailing, puking, miserable little mongrel. | ||
Coast to Coast 41: Why, you dirty, rotten, bludging, little mongrel! | ‘A Bargain’ in Mann||
Jim Brady 82: ‘You dirty rotten mongrels!’ Jim mouthed. | ||
Bunch of Ratbags 239: You’re worse than bloody dagoes, yuh low mongrels. | ||
(con. 1941) Gunner 149: From now on keep that useless mongrel outta my way. | ||
Fish Factory 25: Finish off a man’s grog and then destroy his boat! [...] Mongrel! | ||
Dict. of Invective (1991) 13: Other prominent representatives of the animal kingdom in this category of insult include: [...] various types of dog, e.g., bitch, cur, mongrel. | ||
Neddy (1998) 189: One day he called into a brothel for an empty and, by coincidence, his wife was working there. Yet he still did nothing about it. Weak mongrel. | ||
www.thepantsman.com 🌐 The old men were possibly muttering amongst themselves ‘That filthy fucking mongrel – who let him back in?’. | ||
Tales of the Honey Badger [ebook] I had no qualms wrestling a lion cub [...] only for the mongrel to bite me on the bicep and draw blood. | ||
Orphan Road 153: Christ on a crutch, but there’s one mongrel I can see in this room, thought Hardigan. |
3. (N.Z. prison, also Mongreller) a member of the biker and prison gang the Mongrel Mob.
Big Huey 145: [T]hey chose the Mongrel Mob. Look at Shane, he could have everything but he gave it all up to be a grotty Mongrel. | ||
Staunch 145: ‘[T]he Mongrels used to have rallies in their huts, singing Mongrel Mob ditties, stomping the floor, barking like bulldogs, and yelling out, ‘Black Power shit!’. | ||
Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 118/2: Mongrel n. 1 (also Mongreller) a member of the Mongrel Mob. |
In phrases
(Aus.) to achieve erection.
G’DAY 87: The bloke is required to crack a fat or crack a mongrel. |