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Mule vs Fule - What's the difference?

mule | fule |

As nouns the difference between mule and fule

is that mule is a generally sterile male or female hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse while fule is fool.

mule

English

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Etymology 1

From Middle English (reinforced by (etyl) mul (masculine), mule (feminine)), from (etyl) 'he-ass').

Noun

(en noun)
  • A generally sterile male or female hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse.
  • A generally sterile hybrid offspring of any two species of animals.
  • A hybrid plant.
  • (informal) A stubborn person.
  • (slang) A person paid to smuggle drugs.
  • (numismatics) A coin or medal minted with obverse and reverse designs not normally seen on the same piece, either intentionally or in error.
  • (gaming) A character on an MMORPG used mainly to store extra inventory of the owner's primary character.
  • * 2007 , David L. McClard, Verotopia Online: The MMORPG of the Century , Xlibris (2007), ISBN 9781425772895, page 89:
    • He was in the middle of organizing his massive stash of rare and exquisite bounty, all kept safely in the inventory cache of a mule , an entirely separate character which he paid a monthly fee to maintain exclusively for that purpose.
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    • Synonyms
    * See also
    Derived terms
    * muling * mulish * kick like a mule * stubborn as a mule
    See also
    * ass * donkey * hinny (male horse X female donkey) * horse

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A shoe that has no fitting or strap around the heel, but which covers the foot.

    • fule

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dialectal, chiefly, Scotland) fool
  • * {{quote-book, year=1818, author=Sir Walter Scott, title=The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 2, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="What's the fule thing shaking for?" said he; "I mean nothing but civility to you. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1888, author=H. Rider Haggard, title=Colonel Quaritch, V.C., chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=That army gent, Major Boston, as is agent for all the College lands down the valley, he be a poor weak fule
  • * {{quote-book, year=1914, author=Zane Grey, title=The Light of Western Stars, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="Why, you dog-goned old fule , you cain't hit thet bawl." }}

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