mull

See also: Mull and Müll

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /mʌl/
  • Rhymes: -ʌl

Etymology 1

Related to mill (“to grind”).

Verb

mull (third-person singular simple present mulls, present participle mulling, simple past and past participle mulled)

  1. To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate; usually with over.
    to mull a thought or a problem
    he paused to mull over his various options before making a decision
    • 1912, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 5
      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.
  2. To powder; to pulverize.
  3. To chop marijuana so that it becomes a smokable form.
  4. To heat and spice something, such as wine.
  5. To join two or more individual windows at mullions.
  6. To dull or stupefy.
Derived terms
Translations

Noun

mull (countable and uncountable, plural mulls)

  1. A thin, soft muslin.
  2. (uncountable) Marijuana that has been chopped to prepare it for smoking.
  3. A stew of meat, broth, milk, butter, vegetables, and seasonings, thickened with soda crackers.
  4. The gauze used in bookbinding to adhere a text block to a book's cover.
  5. An inferior kind of madder prepared from the smaller roots or the peelings and refuse of the larger.
Synonyms
  • See also Thesaurus:marijuana
Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

mull (plural mulls)

  1. (Scotland) A promontory.
    the Mull of Kintyre
  2. A snuffbox made of the small end of a horn.

Etymology 3

Probably related to mould.

Noun

mull (uncountable)

  1. dirt; rubbish
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Gower to this entry?)

Scots

Noun

mull (plural mulls)

  1. headland
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