Muller vs Duller - What's the difference?

muller | duller |

As a proper noun muller

is .

As an adjective duller is

(dull).

As a noun duller is

one who, or that which, dulls.

muller

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)

One who, or that which, mulls.

(arts) A grinding stone, held in the hand, used especially for preparing paints and powders.

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A vessel in which wine, etc., is mulled over a fire.

Verb

(en verb)

To grind up into, or as if into, powder.

* 1848 , On Lucifer Matches'', in the ''Pharmaceutical Journal , volume 7 (1847-8), page 523:

The mixing is conducted in a water-bath, and during this process, and as long as the phosphorus is being ground or 'mullered ,' copious fumes are evolved.

* 1901 , Patrick Walker, Six Saints of the Covenant , volume 1, page 31:

I have often thought in my melancholy days, these years bygone, that if it might be supposed, that the souls of our worthies were come from heaven, and the dust of their mullered bodies from their graves, and reunite again;

Etymology 2

Noun

(en noun)

(metallurgy) A machine that mixes sand and clay for use in metal castings.

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Synonyms

* sand muller

Etymology 3

. One theory derives the term from the surname of the murderer Franz Müller,Cassell's Dictionary of Slang'' (ISBN 0304366366, 2005), page 976 while another theory derives it from the surname of German footballer Gerd Müller;''Dictionary of Contemporary Slang'' (ISBN 1408181819, 2014), page 298 both are phonologically improbable. ''The Oxford Guide to Etymology'' (ISBN 0191618780, 2009) asserts that it is "very probably of Romani origin, from a verb ultimately related to Sanskrit ''m?-' 'to die')."

Verb

(en verb)

(UK) To defeat or destroy utterly (as in a sport or competition).

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* 2007 , Stephen Cole, Thieves Like Us , page 220:

Then there were these zombie cult people in the beds, wires and stuff shoved into them, and then Yianna had these two minders and they were the ones who mullered us in Cairo, I swear, and one of them grabbed Con [...]

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Quotations

* 1983 , Tim Powers, The Anubis Gates , page 4: *: "No— beer was my Bessie's favorite drink, and since she mullered I've not had a drop of it."

References

* Wm. H. Peet, in Notes and Queries , page 337 (25 October 1902): The term "Muller," or "Muller-cut-down," applied to a hat, referred to an incident connected with the murder of Mr. Briggs in a railway carriage on 9 July, 1864. The murderer was Franz Müller, and [...] he was found with his victim's hat [...]. The hat had been specially made for Mr. Briggs, but Müller had had it cut down in a way that was common in the second-hand hat trade. For some years after a low hat was spoken of as a "Muller-cut-down," or a man was spoken of as having had his hat "mullered." ----

duller

English

Adjective

(head)

(dull)

Noun

(en noun)

One who, or that which, dulls.

* Beaumont and Fletcher

But, of all, your grace must fly phlebotomy, fresh pork, conger, and clarified whey: they are all dullers of the vital spirits.