mull
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
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 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.
Inflected forms:
form: mulls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mulling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mulled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mulled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: mulls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate.
pos: verb
tags: usually
examples: to mull a thought or a problem
he paused to mull over his various options before making a decision
It was the germ of a thought, which, however, was destined to mull around in his conscious and subconscious mind until it resulted in magnificent achievement.
But here’s a thought I had as you were speaking just now, and I’m mulling it over.
When Morrison mulls the pluses and minuses associated with rebuking Kelly for undermining the government’s public health messaging, the prime minister faces a genuine substantive dilemma, and that goes to the risks of amplification.
gloss: To powder; to pulverize.
pos: verb
gloss: To chop marijuana so that it becomes a smokable form.
pos: verb
gloss: To heat and spice something, such as wine.
pos: verb
gloss: To join two or more individual windows at mullions.
pos: verb
gloss: To dull or stupefy.
pos: verb
gloss: To bungle or botch.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
slang
examples: '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 down again. […]'
gloss: Marijuana that has been chopped to prepare it for smoking.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A stew of meat, broth, milk, butter, vegetables, and seasonings, thickened with soda crackers.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The gauze used in bookbinding to adhere a text block to a book's cover.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An inferior kind of madder prepared from the smaller roots or the peelings and refuse of the larger.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A mess of something; a mistake.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
slang
uncountable
examples: 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.
2014, Andrea Pickens, A Stroke of Luck
After studying the page a bit longer, she made a face. "Good Lord, you've really made a mull of it. Here, let me have a closer look."
gloss: Dirt, dust, or other waste matter.
pos: noun
tags: Northern-England
countable
dialectal
uncountable
Derived words: mulled wine
mulled cider
muller
mull over
unmulled
fog mull
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