Millet vs Mullet - What's the difference?
millet | mullet |
Any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food, widely cultivated in the developing world.
(historical) A semi-autonomous confessional community under the Ottoman Empire, especially a non-Muslim one.
* 2007 , Elizabeth Roberts, Realm of the Black Mountain , Hurst & Co. 2007,
* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, page 262:
A fish of the family Mugilidae (the grey mullets).
A fish of the family Mullidae, especially the genus Mullus , (the s).
A hairstyle where the hair is kept short on the top and sides and long at the back.
* 2008 , Danielle Corsetto,
(slang) A person who mindlessly follows a fad, a trend, or a leader.
As a proper noun millet
is .As a noun mullet is
a fish of the family mugilidae (the grey mullets) or mullet can be a fool or mullet can be a hairstyle where the hair is kept short on the top and sides and long at the back or mullet can be (heraldiccharge) a star with straight edges and usually with five or six points.millet
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m); ultimately from (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(-)Hyponyms
* (food grains)Coordinate terms
*Derived terms
* barnyard millet * broom corn millet * browntop millet * common millet * finger millet * foxtail millet * Guinea millet * hog millet * Japanese millet * kodo millet * little millet * milletgrass, millet grass * pearl millet * proso millet * white milletExternal links
* ("millet" on Wikipedia) * (Millet)Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)page 14:
- in support for a common Serbian Orthodox Church, the one traditional institution permitted to exist under the Ottoman millet system which sought to rule subject peoples indirectly through their own religious hierarchies.
- Christians and Jews as People of the Book were organized into separate communities, or millets , defined by their common practice of the same religion, which was guaranteed as protected as long as it was primarily practised in private.
mullet
English
Etymology 1
(Mugilidae) From (etyl) mulet (now ‘grey mullet’), from (etyl) .Noun
(en-noun)Synonyms
* haarder * springerDerived terms
* black mullet * black true mullet * bright mullet * bully mullet * callifaver mullet * common grey mullet * common mullet * finger mullet * flathead mullet * flathead grey mullet * gray mullet * hardgut mullet * mangrove mullet * popeye mullet * red mullet * river mullet * sea mullet * striped mullet * stunned mulletEtymology 2
Or mullethead, possibly derived from the fish (see Etymology 1) or from mull'' (meaning ''to stupefy ) though neither is certain.http://www.yourdictionary.com/library/mullet.htmlEtymology 3
Apparently coined (and popularized) by hip hop group the .Noun
(en noun)Girls With Slingshots 406
- – Maybe it’s a curly fro.
- – Maybe every day is bad hair day!
- – Maybe it’s a mullet !