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First published 1965 (SND Vol. VI).
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¶MUNGRELIAN, n. A mongrel, a non-descript person.Sc. 1716 Analecta Scot. (Maidment) I. 224:
Whereas ane James Stuart, . . . alias King, alias no-King; neither Caesar nor Nullus, neither a man nor a mouse, . . . neither English man nor French man, but a mungrelian between both; neither wise nor otherwise.
