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millet | mullet |

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

(-)
  • Any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food, widely cultivated in the developing world.
  • 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 millet

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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, 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.
  • * 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, page 262:
  • 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)
  • A fish of the family Mugilidae (the grey mullets).
  • A fish of the family Mullidae, especially the genus Mullus , (the s).
  • Synonyms
    * haarder * springer
    Derived 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 mullet

    Etymology 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.html

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fool
  • Etymology 3

    Apparently coined (and popularized) by hip hop group the .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A hairstyle where the hair is kept short on the top and sides and long at the back.
  • * 2008 , Danielle Corsetto, Girls With Slingshots 406
  • – Maybe it’s a curly fro.
    – Maybe every day is bad hair day!
    – Maybe it’s a mullet !
  • (slang) A person who mindlessly follows a fad, a trend, or a leader.
  • Usage notes
    The hairstyle sense is particularly associated with the working class or even bad taste.
    Derived terms
    * (l)
    Synonyms
    * hockey hair

    Etymology 4

    From (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (heraldiccharge) A star with straight edges and usually with five or six points.
  • Coordinate terms
    * estoile

    References