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mongrel
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mongrel
of mixed or uncertain breeding; said of dogs in particular but also used adjectivally to refer to any species.


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Chatting to Reid about the perils of "miscegenation and mongrelism," the pilot Doughty runs through a list of pejorative terms for people of mixed race: "Chee-chee?
Naturally, these outbreaks of mongrelism and ordinary behaviour have done little to dampen the popularity of Australia's top spectator sports (swimming may not be among them, but celebrity night club brawling certainly is).
Words and phrases like pollution, unclean, the mire of mongrelism, and the abomination of miscegenation were applied to racial mixing, yet sexual congress between the races continued to be part of Southern life (Mencke 108).
 
 
 
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