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Mullet vs Pullet - What's the difference?

mullet | pullet |

In lang=en terms the difference between mullet and pullet

is that mullet is a person who mindlessly follows a fad, a trend, or a leader while pullet is a spineless person; a coward.

As nouns the difference between mullet and pullet

is that mullet is a fish of the family Mugilidae (the grey mullets) while pullet is a young hen, especially one less than a year old.

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

    pullet

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A young hen, especially one less than a year old.
  • * 1646 , (Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica , I.11:
    • They died not because the Pullets would not feed: but because the Devil foresaw their death, he contrived that abstinence in them.
  • * 1749 , (Henry Fielding), Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 588:
    • The dinner-hour being arrived, Black George carried her up a pullet , the squire himself [...] attending the door.
  • * 1891 , (Mary Noailles Murfree), In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 187:
    • he recommended that the patient [...] should be fed with chicken broth, and suggested that as all the poultry had gone to roost, Maggie would find a fat young pullet an easy capture.
  • *1928 , (Siegfried Sassoon), Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man , Penguin 2013, p. 195:
  • *:The writer complained that a fox had been the night before and killed three more of his pullets […].
  • (slang) A spineless person; a coward.