单词 | mongrelized |
释义 | mongrelizedadj. Mongrel in composition, type, or character; mixed, hybrid.Now usually considered offensive when used with reference to people or ethnic groups. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [adjective] > of mixed composition or character linsey-woolsey1565 mongrela1586 piebald1590 sundry1593 party per pale1607 mi-parti1610 hybridan1623 participle1694 ambigenal hyperbola1710 hybrida1716 mulish1729 hybridal1801 mulea1833 mixtiform1837 mongrelized1857 1857 U.S. Democratic Rev. Feb. 155 It [sc. the masonic order] stands at this moment before the country a mongrelized, Janus-faced, and cloven-footed object of execration. 1912 ‘J. Aryan’ (title) The Aryans and mongrelized America. 1952 W. D. Jacobs W. Barnes, Linguist i. 9 They [sc. Barnes's linguistic studies] present a possible solution to mongrelized English and an alternate program of greater scale..than any previous to Barnes. 1978 H. Wouk War & Remembrance xxxi. 321 The dark gods..bestowed on this crass mercantile nation of mongrelized blood..a virgin continent with almost infinite natural resources. 1990 Mirabella Sept. 140/1 What would be desirable..would be some lumpy fibroid mass of mongrelized tendrils and shoots. In other words, my lawn. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1857 |
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