mutt

詳細解釋：

mutt

n.Informal （名詞）【非正式用語】
A mongrel dog.
* 狗
A person regarded as stupid.
笨蛋：被認為愚蠢的人

來源：
Short for muttonhead
muttonhead的簡寫

<注釋>Clipping not of sheep but of a word having to do with sheep has given us our termmutt for a mongrel dog. Clipping or abbreviating words, a standard process of word formation,shearedmutt from muttonhead, a pejorative term meaning .a stupid person,.based on the notion that sheep are stupid.Mutt in its first recorded use in 90 is used in the same senses asmuttonhead, but it is soon recorded (904)as a term of contempt for a horseand then (90') for a dog.We can be reasonably certain that theNew Yorker critic writing in 970 that .The cast includes a Sheepdog . . . a Mutt Bitch,. had no awareness that a sheepdog would make the ideal mutt.
不是對綿羊的修剪而是對與綿羊有關的一個詞進行省略呈現給我們的專門名詞mutt 指 * 狗。 簡略或縮寫單詞，一項規範的造詞過程，將mutt 從 muttonhead 縮略而得， 這個含貶義的詞意為.笨蛋.，源於綿羊是蠢笨的說法。Mutt 最早記載於90年， 被用作muttonhead 的同義詞， 但不久(904年）的記載中，該詞表示對馬的蔑稱，然後(90'年）成為對狗的蔑稱。我們有理由肯定970年的New Yorker 一本批判性作品， 其評註.包括牧羊狗… * .就沒有意識到牧羊狗也可以表示十足的 * 之意