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mongrelize

verb

Etymology

From mongrel + -ize.

  1. derived from *mang-✻ — “mix; mixture”
  2. derived from ġemang — “mingling”
  3. inherited from mongrel
  4. suffixed as mongrelize — “mongrel + ize”

Definitions

  1. To cross-breed an animal

    • To mongrelize a dog

  2. To become mixed - inoffensive when used as an object.

  3. To become ethnically mixed.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for mongrelize. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA