HBADHPa dog that is a mix of several different breeds 杂种狗
Examples from the Corpus
mongrel• She's a mongrel really, but that's what Sebastian calls her.• Iyer is a hybrid being or rather, to use his wry term, a mongrel.• Benny, her mongrel, foraging ahead.• It was a madmongrel of a building, a Victorianfollylampooning the worsttaste of several architectural ages.• But whenever he wandered off el grip would loosen, el thwing would revert and the comfortable old mongrel ways would return.• I keep half a dozen pondmongrels in a tank, and every one is dear to me.• Two centuries later, the mongrels have found an identity of their own and have become a pest.• It scurried over to a pile of old newspapers with the mongrel in close attendance.
Originmongrel
(1400-1500) Probably from mong“mixture”((13-19 centuries)), from Old Englishgemong“crowd”