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mull

Pronunciation: /mʌl/

The English word “mull” has 17 meanings listed here.

verb

  1. To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate.
  2. To powder; to pulverize.
  3. To chop marijuana so that it becomes a smokable form.
  4. To heat and spice something, such as wine.
  5. To join two or more individual windows at mullions.
  6. To dull or stupefy.
  7. To bungle or botch.

noun

  1. Marijuana that has been chopped to prepare it for smoking.
  2. A stew of meat, broth, milk, butter, vegetables, and seasonings, thickened with soda crackers.
  3. The gauze used in bookbinding to adhere a text block to a book's cover.
  4. An inferior kind of madder prepared from the smaller roots or the peelings and refuse of the larger.
  5. A mess of something; a mistake.
  6. Dirt, dust, or other waste matter.
  7. A thin, soft muslin.
  8. A promontory.
  9. A snuffbox made of the small end of a horn.
  10. Friable forest humus that forms a layer of mixed organic matter and mineral soil and merges gradually into the mineral soil beneath.

Etymology

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…

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