Word.ws English Dictionary

mungrel

mungrel is the archaic form of mongrel.

Meaning of mongrel

Noun

mongrel (plural mongrels)

  1. (derogatory, often) A dog with a lineage of two or more breeds.
    • That dog is a mongrel; who knows what breed it could be!
  2. (derogatory, ethnic, offensive, often, slur) A person of mixed race.
    • The natives of Banda are very much mixed, and it is probable that at least three-fourths of the population are mongrels, in various degrees of Malay, Papuan, Arab, Portuguese, and Dutch. The first two form the bases of the larger portion, and the dark skins, pronounced features, and more or less...1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 456
  3. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang) A thuggish, obnoxious, or contemptible person; (often preceded by "poor") a pitiable person.
    • "Yanto bloody Evans!" Jack stuttered with rage. "Yanto bloody Evans! That... that... bloody mongrel! D'you know who he is? He's the one who knocked me back for a bit of extra timber before the roof fell in on me!"2008, Jim Brigginshaw, Over My Dead Body, page 77
    Synonyms:
    bastard
  4. (Australia, slang) An erect penis; an erection.

See all 5 meanings of mongrel

Forms of mungrel

pluralmungrels

Questions about mungrel

What is mungrel the archaic form of?
Mungrel is the archaic form of mongrel.

Words near mungrel in the dictionary

  1. mungoose
  2. mungooses
  3. mungos
  4. mungous
  5. mungouses
  6. mungrel
  7. mungrels
  8. Mungret
  9. Mungrimungram
  10. Mungrisdale
  11. mungs

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: mungrel (page history and authors); mongrel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “mungrel.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/mungrel. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.