Mull
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mull¹
- /mʌl/ UK, US
- /mʊl/ Northern England
Rhymes with -ʌl
Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English molle, mulle (“dust, rubbish”), possibly from Old English myl (“dust, mould”), from Proto-West Germanic *muli, a deverbal formation from *mulljan and thus cognate with Dutch mul (“dust, mould”), German Müll (“rubbish”), Swedish moln (“cloud”) and related to English mill (“to grind”). Alternatively, from Middle French mol or its etymon Latin mollis (“soft”).
Some verbal senses are supplied by Middle English mollen (“to soften, dissolve”), from Old French moillier, from Latin *molliāre (“to steep”), itself from mollis; compare moil.
verb mulls · mulling · mulled
- To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate. to mull a thought or a problem
- To powder; to pulverize.
- To chop marijuana so that it becomes a smokable form.
- To heat and spice something, such as wine.
- To join two or more individual windows at mullions.
- To dull or stupefy.
- To bungle or botch. 'That's rather like another plant where a string of pearls was changed some years ago,' volunteered Greatorex, laying aside the paper in favour of his own reminiscences. […] 'Yes; they mulled that by not copying the sale label closely enough, and the attendant noticed it when the necklace was laid d
noun mulls
- Marijuana that has been chopped to prepare it for smoking.
- A stew of meat, broth, milk, butter, vegetables, and seasonings, thickened with soda crackers.
- The gauze used in bookbinding to adhere a text block to a book's cover.
- An inferior kind of madder prepared from the smaller roots or the peelings and refuse of the larger.
- A mess of something; a mistake. Mr. HERDMAN. — The honourable member for Nelson says they made a mull of it. If the honourable gentleman had been a financial authority he would never have given expression to such a thought.
- Dirt, dust, or other waste matter.
mull²
- /mʌl/ UK, US
- /mʊl/ Northern England
Rhymes with -ʌl
Where it comes from
Shortened from mulmul.
noun mulls
- A thin, soft muslin. The merchandise in this case consists of Madras mulls — thin cotton cloth.
mull³
- /mʌl/ UK, US
- /mʊl/ Northern England
Rhymes with -ʌl
Where it comes from
From Scottish Gaelic maol.
noun mulls
- A promontory. the Mull of Kintyre
- A snuffbox made of the small end of a horn. Charles Dickens quoted in 1872, John Forster, The Life of Charles Dickens Much in this manner they exhibit at the door of a snuff-shop the effigy of a Highlander with an empty mull in his hand, who, apparently having taken all the snuff he can carry, and discharged all the sneezes of which he is cap
mull⁴
- /mʌl/ UK, US
- /mʊl/ Northern England
Rhymes with -ʌl
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Danish muld, from Old Norse mold.
noun mulls
- Friable forest humus that forms a layer of mixed organic matter and mineral soil and merges gradually into the mineral soil beneath.
Mull⁵
- /mʌl/ UK, Scotland, Southern England
- /mʊl/ Northern England
Rhymes with -ʌl
Where it comes from
From the noun mull (“crag, promontory”). Known in Old Norse as Myl.
proper noun
- An island, the second largest in the Inner Hebrides, in Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland.
Mull⁶
Where it comes from
From mulligatawny.
noun Mulls
- A member of the Service belonging to the Madras Presidency. The Mulls have been excited also by another occurrence […] affecting rather the trading than fashionable world.
