Mull

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Isle of Mull

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From the noun mull (“crag, promontory”). Known in Old Norse as Myl.

Mull

1. An island, the second largest in the Inner Hebrides, in Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland.

From mulligatawny.

Mull (plural Mulls)

1. (Anglo-Indian, slang, obsolete) A member of the Service belonging to the Madras Presidency.
   • 1837, Asiatic Journal, page 251:

     The Mulls have been excited also by another occurrence […] affecting rather the trading than fashionable world.

   • 1844, The New Sporting Magazine, volume 8, page 394:

     […] but the glorious days, when "Qui-hyes" and "Mulls" used to be pitted against each other for first spear, have vanished, […]

   • 1852, Notes and Queries (1st ser. v. 165)

     esidents of Bengal, Bombay, and Madras are, in Eastern parlance, designated 'Qui Hies,' 'Ducks,' and 'Mulls.'

• Henry Yule, A C Burnell (1903) “Mull”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson , London: John Murray, .

Byform of Müll (“waste, rubbish”, older also “earth, dust”), which see. Related with English mould (“loose earth”), but not directly cognate.

• IPA^(key): /mʊl/

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Mull m (strong, genitive Mulls or Mulles, no plural)

1. (chiefly Northern Germany) mould, loose earth

From Low German Mull, from Middle Low German mul, mol. Cognate with Dutch mol, English mole. Related with German Molch (“salamander”).

• Like etymology 1 above.

Mull m (strong, genitive Mulls or Mulles, plural Mulle)

1. (dialectal) Synonym of Maulwurf (“mole”)
2. (biology, in compounds) one of various mammals that dig subterranean burrows

From English mull, shortened from mulmul, from Hindi मलमल (malmal).

• Like etymology 1 above.

Mull m (strong, genitive Mulls or Mulles, plural (rare) Mulle)

1. gauze (very thin fabric, generally used for medical purposes)

From English Mull.

• IPA^(key): /mal/

Mull n (proper noun, genitive Mulls or (optionally with an article) Mull)

1. Mull (an island, the second largest in the Inner Hebrides, in Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland)

• “Mull” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Mull” in Duden online

• IPA^(key): /mul/
• Rhymes: -ul

From Middle Dutch mule, from Old Dutch *mūla, from Proto-Germanic *mūlō.

Mull f (plural Mulle, diminutive Mülltje) (Eupen)

1. mouth of an animal
2. (possibly derogatory) mouth of a person
3. kiss

From a clipping of Mullber, from Proto-West Germanic *mōrubaʀi (“mulberry”).

Mull f (plural Mulle) (Eupen)

1. raspberry

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Mullen

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From French moûle, from Latin musculus.

• IPA^(key): /mul/
• Rhymes: -ul

Mull f (plural Mullen)

1. mussel