mullock

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mullock

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From mull + -ock.

noun mullocks

UK, dialectal, uncountable, usually Rubbish, waste matter.
Australia, New Zealand, uncountable, usually Overburden: waste material generated while searching for minerals or while mining, such as when sinking a shaft.
Australia, New Zealand, uncountable, usually Tailings: waste rock from which the wanted gold, minerals, opal, etc., has been extracted. 1875, New Zealand House of Representatives, Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives of New Zealand, Volume 2, page 30, The gold, both in the quartz and mullock, is very fine, and, owing to the soft and ferruginous nature of the stuff, specks can but very rarely be seen during workin
uncountable, usually Nonsense, rubbish.
UK, Yorkshire, dialectal, uncountable, usually A mess; the result of a blunder. For when they saw awr Mary, / They made a mullock on it, / For they thowt 'at all them flaars / Had been put on Mary's bonnet.

verb mullocks · mullocking · mullocked

transitive To clear waste material out of a mine.

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@misc{mullock_2026,
  title = {mullock},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/mullock},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}