muller

See also: Muller, Mueller, and Müller

English

Etymology 1

From mull (“to heat and spice, etc.”, verb) +‎ -er (suffix forming agent nouns).^[1]^[2]

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmʌlə/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmʌləɹ/
Rhymes: -ʌlə(ɹ)
Hyphenation: mull‧er

Noun

muller (plural mullers)

One who, or that which, mulls.
1. A person who mulls wine or other alcoholic beverages.
2. A vessel in which wine, etc., is mulled over a fire.

Translations

one who, or that which, mulls

person who mulls wine or other alcoholic beverages

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

Etymology 2

From mull (“to mix (clay and sand) under a roller to prepare a mould”) +‎ -er (suffix forming agent nouns).^[3] Mull is possibly derived from mull (“(chiefly Northern England) to grind to powder, crumble, powder, pulverize”), from Middle English mollen, mullen (“to moisten (something); to soften (something) by making wet; to become liquid; to drizzle; to crumble or soften (something) by grinding; to fondle or pet (something)”),^[4] from Old French moillier, muillier (“to make wet”) (modern French mouiller), and from its etymon Vulgar Latin *molliāre, *mulliāre (“to make wet”), from Latin molliāre, the present active infinitive of molliō (“to soften”), from Latin mollis (“soft”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld- (“to melt; to soften”) or *melh₂- (“to crush, grind”)) + -iō (suffix forming factitive verbs from adjectives).

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmʌlə/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmʌləɹ/
Rhymes: -ʌlə(ɹ)
Hyphenation: mull‧er

Noun

muller (plural mullers)

(metallurgy) A machine that mixes clay and sand under a roller for use in preparing a mould for metal casting.
Synonym: sand muller
- 2008, Stephen Chastain, Build a Muller‎^[1], →ISBN, page 93:
  The muller can easily plow through any sand mixture that I put in it and has plenty of power left over.

Translations

machine that mixes clay and sand for use in preparing a mould for metal casting

Etymology 3

The noun is derived from Late Middle English molour, moler;^[5] further origin uncertain, possibly:^[6]

from mull (“(Northern England) something reduced to fine particles”, noun)^[7] or mull (“(chiefly Northern England) to grind to powder, crumble, powder, pulverize”, verb) +‎ -er (suffix forming agent nouns) (see etymology 2); or
from an unattested Anglo-Norman or Middle French noun, from Old French moldre, moudre (“to grind”) (modern French moudre), from Latin molere, the present active infinitive of molō (“to grind, to mill”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to crush, grind”); or
a variant of mullet (“(obsolete) stone for grinding”) +‎ -er; mullet is derived from French molette (“pestle”).^[8]

The verb is derived from the noun.^[9]

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmʌlə/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmʌləɹ/
Rhymes: -ʌlə(ɹ)
Hyphenation: mull‧er

Noun

muller (plural mullers)

(chiefly art, pharmacy) A stone with a flat grinding surface, which is held in the hand and rubbed on a slab to grind paint pigments, medicinal powders, etc.
- 1994, John Wilder Tukey, David R. Brillinger, The collected works of John W. Tukey‎^[2], →ISBN, page 607:
  The muller provides, in addition, a useful means of comparing the important property of the rate of strength development of pigments.
(by extension) A device used for crushing or grinding.

Translations

stone with a flat grinding surface held in the hand and rubbed on a slab

device used for crushing or grinding

Verb

muller (third-person singular simple present mullers, present participle mullering, simple past and past participle mullered)

(transitive, obsolete, rare) To grind up (something) 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.

Etymology 4

Probably from Angloromani mul-, the preterite stem of mer- (“to die”) (compare mullered, mullo (“dead”, adjective);^[10] ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mer- (“to die; to disappear”)) + English -er (suffix forming frequentative verbs).^[11]

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmʊlə/, /ˈmʌl-/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Audio (Southern England): (file)
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmʊləɹ/, /ˈmʌl-/
Rhymes: -ʊlə(ɹ), -ʌlə(ɹ)
Hyphenation: mull‧er

Verb

muller (third-person singular simple present mullers, present participle mullering, simple past and past participle mullered) (transitive, UK, slang)

To destroy (something); to ruin, to wreck.
To beat or thrash (someone).
- 1990, Pete Davies, “All Played Out: England–Ireland”, in All Played Out: The Full Story of Italia ’90, London: Mandarin Paperbacks, published 1991, →ISBN, page 235:
  We walked down to the golf club to get a beer; they readily agreed as we went, it had been a dreadful game. Macca [Steve McMahon] asked Gazza [Paul Gascoigne], had he heard? – they were getting ‘mullered’ back home. […] Gazza said he wasn’t surprised, it was fair enough – and Macca said the same. He said he didn’t mind getting trashed, when they’d played a lousy game – what he hated was getting trashed for two weeks solid beforehand, when the Cup hadn’t even started.
- 2001 June, Rebecca Tope, chapter 4, in Dark Undertakings, 1st St. Martin’s Minotaur (American) edition, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Dunne Books, →ISBN, section VIII, page 137:
  You needn't make so much fuss. Nobody's going to bother about you. It's me that's going to get mullered.
- 2006, Jez Butterworth, The Winterling‎^[3], →ISBN, page 39:
  Sure enough, they've got mullered. They're yesterday's men. The sands of time have washed over them.
- 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 […]
- 2009, Martina Cole, Close, →ISBN, page 286:
  "They mullered him, Jimmy." Spider shook his head. "He was completely destroyed."
- 2012, Anthony Cronshaw, Wednesday Rucks and Rock 'n' Roll: Tales from the East Bank:
  The boys couldn't stand idly by while three Wednesdayites got mullered; it was not the done thing.
(often sports) To utterly defeat or outplay (a sportsperson, a team, etc.); to destroy, to thrash, to trounce.
Synonym: outclass

Derived terms

mullered (adjective) (probably)

Translations

to destroy (something) — see destroy,‎ ruin,‎ wreck

to beat or thrash (someone) — see beat,‎ thrash

to utterly defeat or outplay (a sportsperson, a team, etc.) — see thrash,‎ trounce

Etymology 5

Borrowed from German Müller, the surname of Franz Müller (1840–1864), a German tailor who was convicted and hanged for the robbery and murder of Thomas Briggs, a British banker, on a train. Müller was found in possession of, among other things, Briggs’ top hat, which he had altered by reducing the height of the crown by half and resewing it to the brim.^[12]^[13]

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmʌlə/, /ˈmʊ-/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Audio (Southern England): (file)
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmʌləɹ/, /ˈm(j)ʊ-/
Rhymes: -ʌlə(ɹ), -ʊlə(ɹ)
Hyphenation: mull‧er

Verb

muller (third-person singular simple present mullers, present participle mullering, simple past and past participle mullered)

(transitive, obsolete) To cut down or reduce the height of (a top hat).

Related terms

Müller (“top hat with a low or cut-down crown”) (historical)

References

^ Compare “muller, n.⁴”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, July 2023.
^ “muller², n.”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
^ Compare “mull, v.”, in Collins English Dictionary.
^ “mollen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
^ “molǒur, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
^ “muller, n.¹”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, March 2024; “muller¹, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
^ “mull, n.¹”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, July 2023.
^ “† mullet, n.²”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, July 2023.
^ “muller, v.²”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, July 2023.
^ Yaron Matras (2010) “Appendix I: Lexicon of Angloromani”, in Romani in Britain: The Afterlife of a Language, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, page 185; see also Charles G[odfrey] Leland (1873) “Gipsy Words which have Passed into English Slang”, in The English Gipsies and Their Language, London: Trübner & Co., […], →OCLC, page 94: “‘To make a Mull of anything,’ meaning thereby to spoil or confuse it, if it be derived, as is said, from the Gipsy, must have come from Mullo meaning dead, and the Sanskrit Mara.”
^ “muller, v.⁴”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, December 2023; “muller², v.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
^ “† muller, v.³”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, July 2023.
^ W[illia]m H. Peet (1902 October 25) “[Replies.] Fashion in Language.”, in Notes and Queries: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, General Readers, etc., volume X (9th Series), London: John C[ollins] Francis, →OCLC, page 337, column 1:
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 the fact that he was found with his victim’s hat was the most damning piece of evidence against him. 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.”

Aragonese

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Wikipedia ^an

Etymology

From Latin mulierem.

Noun

muller f (plural mullers)

woman
wife

Synonyms

(wife): esposa

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin mulierem.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [muˈʎe]
IPA^(key): (Valencia) [muˈʎeɾ]
Audio: (file)

Noun

muller f (plural mullers)

(law) wife
Synonyms: cònjuge, (figurative) costella, dona, esposa

Hypernym: cònjuge

Coordinate terms: cònjuge, espòs, marit

prendre muller ― for a man, to marry a woman

Galician

Alternative forms

mulher (reintegrationist)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese muller／moller, from Latin mulierem.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /muˈɟɛɾ/ [muˈɟɛɾ]
Audio: (file)
Rhymes: -ɛɾ

Noun

muller f (plural mulleres)

woman
wife

References

Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “muller”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “muller”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “muller”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “muller”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “muller”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Old Galician-Portuguese

Noun

muller f (plural mullers)

Alternative form of moller

Swedish

Etymology

Deverbal from mullra. Attested since 1730.

Noun

muller n

rumble

Declension

Declension of muller

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	muller	mullers
singular	definite	mullret	mullrets
plural	indefinite	—	—
plural	definite	—	—

Derived terms

åskmuller

Related terms

mullra (“to rumble”)

References

[1] Compare “muller, n.⁴”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, July 2023.

[2] “muller², n.”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

[3] Compare “mull, v.”, in Collins English Dictionary.

[4] “mollen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

[5] “molǒur, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

[6] “muller, n.¹”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, March 2024; “muller¹, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

[7] “mull, n.¹”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, July 2023.

[8] “† mullet, n.²”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, July 2023.

[9] “muller, v.²”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, July 2023.

[10] Yaron Matras (2010) “Appendix I: Lexicon of Angloromani”, in Romani in Britain: The Afterlife of a Language, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, page 185; see also Charles G[odfrey] Leland (1873) “Gipsy Words which have Passed into English Slang”, in The English Gipsies and Their Language, London: Trübner & Co., […], →OCLC, page 94: “‘To make a Mull of anything,’ meaning thereby to spoil or confuse it, if it be derived, as is said, from the Gipsy, must have come from Mullo meaning dead, and the Sanskrit Mara.”

[11] “muller, v.⁴”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, December 2023; “muller², v.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

[12] “† muller, v.³”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, July 2023.

[13] W[illia]m H. Peet (1902 October 25) “[Replies.] Fashion in Language.”, in Notes and Queries: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, General Readers, etc., volume X (9th Series), London: John C[ollins] Francis, →OCLC, page 337, column 1:
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 the fact that he was found with his victim’s hat was the most damning piece of evidence against him. 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.”

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