Mulled vs Muller - What's the difference?
mulled | muller |
(mull)
To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate; usually with over.
* 1912 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 5
To powder; to pulverize.
To chop marijuana so that it becomes a smokable form.
To heat and spice something, such as wine.
To join two or more individual windows at mullions.
To dull or stupefy.
A thin, soft muslin.
(uncountable) Marijuana that has been chopped to prepare it for smoking.
A stew of meat, broth, milk, butter, vegetables, and seasonings, thickened with soda crackers.
The gauze used in bookbinding to adhere a text block to a book's cover.
An inferior kind of madder prepared from the smaller roots or the peelings and refuse of the larger.
(Scotland) A promontory.
A snuffbox made of the small end of a horn.
dirt; rubbish
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.
To grind up into, or as if into, powder.
* 1848 , On Lucifer Matches'', in the ''Pharmaceutical Journal , volume 7 (1847-8), page 523:
* 1901 , Patrick Walker, Six Saints of the Covenant , volume 1, page 31:
(metallurgy) A machine that mixes sand and clay for use in metal castings.
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(UK) To defeat or destroy utterly (as in a sport or competition).
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* 2007 , Stephen Cole, Thieves Like Us , page 220:
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As verbs the difference between mulled and muller
is that mulled is past tense of mull while muller is to grind up into, or as if into, powder.As a noun muller is
one who, or that which, mulls.As a proper noun Muller is
alternative form of Mueller|lang=en.mulled
English
Verb
(head)mull
English
Etymology 1
Verb
(en verb)- to mull a thought or a problem
- he paused to mull over his various options before making a decision
- It was the germ of a thought, which, however, was destined to mull around in his conscious and subconscious mind until it resulted in magnificent achievement.
Derived terms
* mulled wine, mulled ciderNoun
Synonyms
* See alsoEtymology 2
Noun
(en noun)- the Mull of Kintyre
Etymology 3
Probably related to mould.Noun
(-)- (Gower)
muller
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- 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.
- 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)Synonyms
* sand mullerEtymology 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)- 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 [...]