different between mutt vs muti

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

Clipping of muttonhead.

Noun

mutt (plural mutts)

1. A mongrel dog (or sometimes cat); an animal of mixed breed or uncertain origin.

   Coordinate term: moggy
2. (usually derogatory or humourous) A person of mixed racial or ethnic ancestry.
3. (chiefly US, slang, derogatory) An idiot, a stupid person.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:idiot
4. (Internet slang, derogatory) A person from the United States, in reference to sense 2.

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Derived terms

• Amerimutt

Translations

See also

• bitsa, bitser
• cur
• Heinz 57
• mongrel
• Mutt and Jeff

Etymology 2

Noun

mutt (plural mutts)

1. Alternative form of matha

Estonian

Noun

mutt (genitive muti, partitive mutti)

1. mole (the animal)
2. (colloquial) hag, elder woman, old woman

Declension

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Northern Sami muottá, genitive and accusative singular of muoddá.

Alternative forms

• mudd (alternative form based on the nominative form of the Samic origin)

Noun

mutt m (definite singular mutten, indefinite plural muttar, definite plural muttane)

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Etymology 2

Adjective

mutt (indefinite singular mutt, definite singular and plural mutte, comparative muttare, indefinite superlative muttast, definite superlative muttaste)

1. grumpy

References

• “mutt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

English

Etymology

From Zulu umuthi (“shrub, tree, medicine”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?mu?ti/

Noun

muti (countable and uncountable, plural mutis)

1. (South Africa) Traditional African medicine. [from 19th c.]
   • 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage 2000, p. 179:

     The witchdoctor shop with its muti, its vulture eggs, the skins and hair and nails and horns and unmentionable excretions, its useless whorl of incense; and the Indian owner glaring at one like a dark wooden mask.

   • 2012, Nadine Gordimer, No Time Like the Present, Bloomsbury 2013, p. 300:

     Lekota's handing on a plate ammunition against himself, scrapping our genuine African herb medicine, Affirmative Action, that national muti.

Derived terms

• muti murder
• muti man, muti woman

Anagrams

• tumi

Catalan

Verb

muti

1. first-person singular present subjunctive form of mutar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive form of mutar
3. third-person singular imperative form of mutar

Estonian

Noun

muti

1. genitive singular of mutt

Hungarian

Etymology

Clipping of mutasd (“show me”, definite second-person singular subjunctive of mutat).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?muti]
• Hyphenation: mu?ti
• Rhymes: -ti

Interjection

muti

1. (colloquial) show me, let me see (it)

   Synonyms: mutasd, hadd nézzem/lássam

Italian

Adjective

muti

1. masculine plural of muto

Verb

muti

1. second-person singular present of mutare
2. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive of mutare
3. third-person singular imperative of mutare

Latin

Adjective

m?t?

1. nominative masculine plural of m?tus
2. genitive masculine singular of m?tus
3. genitive neuter singular of m?tus
4. vocative masculine plural of m?tus

Latvian

Noun

muti f

1. accusative singular form of mute
2. instrumental singular form of mute

Mwani

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *m??t??.

Noun

muti 3 (plural miuti)

1. tree

Old Prussian

Noun

muti

1. Alternative form of m?ti

Phuthi

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *m??t??.

Noun

múti 3 (plural míti 4)

1. tree

Inflection

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Serbo-Croatian

Verb

muti (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. inflection of mutiti:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Shona

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *m??t??.

Noun

mutí 3 (plural mití 4)

1. tree
2. medicine

   Synonym: mushonga

Sicilian

Adjective

muti

1. plural of mutu

Tsonga

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *m??gì??.

Noun

muti 3 (plural miti 4)

1. village