mull

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /mʌl/    美 /mʌl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Friable forest humus that forms a layer of mixed organic matter and mineral soil and merges gradually into the mineral soil beneath. countable,uncountable
  2. A promontory. Scotland
    — the Mull of Kintyre
  3. A thin, soft muslin. countable,uncountable
    — The merchandise in this case consists of Madras mulls — thin cotton cloth.
  4. Marijuana that has been chopped to prepare it for smoking. uncountable
  5. A stew of meat, broth, milk, butter, vegetables, and seasonings, thickened with soda crackers. countable,uncountable
  6. 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 capable, politely invites his friends and patrons to step in and try what they can do in the same line.
  7. The gauze used in bookbinding to adhere a text block to a book's cover. countable,uncountable
  8. An inferior kind of madder prepared from the smaller roots or the peelings and refuse of the larger. countable,uncountable
  9. A mess of something; a mistake. archaic,countable,slang,uncountable
    — 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.
  10. Dirt, dust, or other waste matter. Northern-England,countable,dialectal,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate. usually
    — to mull a thought or a problem
  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. archaic,slang
    — '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. […]'

词形变化

mulls present,singular,third-person mulling participle,present mulled participle,past mulled past mulls plural mulls plural mulls plural mulls plural

词汇关系

衍生词
mulled wine mulled cider muller mull over unmulled fog mull snuff-mull

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
Shortened from mulmul.
词源 3
From Scottish Gaelic maol.
词源 4
Borrowed from Danish muld, from Old Norse mold.
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