English Explanatory Dictionary

mule

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The generally sterile male or female hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse.
  2. The generally sterile hybrid offspring of any two species of animals.
  3. A hybrid plant.
  4. A stubborn person.
  5. A person paid to smuggle drugs.
  6. A coin or medal minted with obverse and reverse designs not normally seen on the same piece, either intentionally or in error.
  7. A MMORPG character, or NPC companion in a tabletop RPG, used mainly to store extra inventory for the owner's primary character.
  8. Any of a group of cocktails involving ginger ale or ginger beer, citrus juice, and various liquors.
  9. A kind of triangular sail for a yacht.
  10. A kind of cotton-spinning machine.
verb
  1. To smuggle (illegal drugs).
noun
  1. Any shoe with an upper covering the front of the foot but without a back flap or strap, leaving the heel exposed.
name
  1. A surname.

Pronunciation

/mjuːl/ /mjuːəl/ /mjʉl/ /mjuwəɫ/ En-au-mule.ogg

Word forms

mule mules muling muled

Etymology

Etymology tree substratebor.? Proto-Italic *musklos? Latin mūlus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂ Proto-Italic *-ā Latin -a Latin mūla Anglo-Norman mulebor. ▲ Latin mūlusbor. Proto-West Germanic *mūl Old English mūl Middle English mule English mule Inherited from Middle English mule, from Anglo-Norman mule (“she-mule”) and Old English mūl, both ultimately from Latin mūlus, from Proto-Indo-European *mukslós. Compare Late Latin muscellus (“young he-mule”), Old East Slavic мъшкъ (mŭškŭ, “mule”), Ancient Greek (Phocian) μυχλός (mukhlós, “he-ass”), and German Maul Maultier, Maulesel (through Latin).

Synonyms

Missouri canary donkey bulldog mule drug mule mule shoe

Related words

ass donkey hinny horse

Derived words

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