mule

Kalu dia bicara salalu mule.

Unknown. Perhaps borrowed from Dutch smuilen.


mule

head

mule c (singular definite mulen, plural indefinite muler)

mulen (definite singular)
muler (indefinite plural)
mule (indefinite nominative singular)
mulen (definite nominative singular)
muler (indefinite nominative plural)
mulerne (definite nominative plural)
mules (genitive indefinite singular)
mulens (definite genitive singular)
mulers (genitive indefinite plural)
mulernes (definite genitive plural)

From Old Norse múli, from Proto-Germanic *mūlô.


mule

mule (imperative mul, infinitive at mule, present tense muler, past tense mulede, perfect tense har mulet)

mul (imperative)
at mule (infinitive)
muler (present)
mulede (past)
har mulet (perfect)


mule

One day he ran into a herd of a half dozen elk, so he rode his mule down the canyon three or four miles, leaving the sheep alone.

2017, Robert S. McPherson, Cowboying In Canyon Country, Dog Ear Publishing, →ISBN, page 200:

en:offspring of male donkey and female horse

The generally sterile male or female hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse.

It would be exceedingly interesting to know if the hybrid would reproduce, a matter I deem exceedingly doubtful, for the chances are it would prove a "mule" (infertile).

1922, Onnie Warren Smith, The Book of the Pike, page 187:

The generally sterile hybrid offspring of any two species of animals.

Vegetable mules supply an irrefragable argument in favour of the sexual system of botany.

1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, J. Johnson, page 149:

The most extraordinary mule, however, that is asserted to have been produced on the Continent, is a cross between the cabbage and horse-radish, which Monsieur Sageret reports that he has obtained […]

1837, William Herbert, Amaryllidaceæ: Preceded by an Attempt to Arrange the Monocotyledonous Orders, and Followed by a Treatise on Cross-bred Vegetables, and Supplement, page 353:

"Where in the hell do you think I learned to be such a mule?”

2005, Dorothea Benton Frank, Isle of Palms, Penguin, →ISBN:

Cocaine packet ingestion (these patients referred to as “mules”) may warrant surgery, Golytely or expectant passage.

2006, “Gastroenterology: Esophageal Foreign Bodies”, in Steven E. Diaz, The Little Black Book of Emergency Medicine (Jones and Bartlett's Little Black Book Series), 2nd edition, Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, →ISBN, page 101:

“Yeah, in Denver, we know about Uriarte's involvement in meth. Our Las Cruces office seized over six hundred pounds of methamphetamine from two of his mules last year.”

2007, Thomas G. Blacklock, Safe Zone: A Novel Approach to the Drug War, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 44:

What is less clear, however, is why mint workers should have chosen to produce mules, if they were making forgeries […]

1988, Andrew Burnett, The Normanby hoard and other Roman coin hoards, British Museum Publications:

(numismatics) A coin or medal minted with obverse and reverse designs not normally seen on the same piece, either intentionally or in error.

He was in the middle of organizing his massive stash of rare and exquisite bounty, all kept safely in the inventory cache of a mule, an entirely separate character which he paid a monthly fee to maintain exclusively for that purpose.

2007, David L. McClard, Verotopia Online: The MMORPG of the Century, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 89:

(roleplaying games) A MMORPG character, or NPC companion in a tabletop RPG, used mainly to store extra inventory for the owner's primary character.

Any of a group of cocktails involving ginger ale or ginger beer, citrus juice, and various liquors.

In heavier seas where a boat must sail a course dictated by waves, or where wave action makes power more important than pointing, the mule will prove the faster sail.

(sailing) A kind of triangular sail for a yacht.

→ Hawaiian: miula

→ Irish: miúil

→ Maori: miūru

muuli

numismatics: coin or medal minted with designs not normally seen on the same piece

muuli

role games: MMORPG character, or NPC companion

From Middle English mule, from Anglo-Norman mule and Old English mūl, both 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).


mule

There are many drug lords, each with his own corridor (think of it as a franchise of sorts) funneling narcotics into Texas. There are multifold methods of transport. The old, and still viable, way is to "mule" it across the Rio Grande in a small boat.

2000, Arturo Longoria, Keepers of the Wilderness:

Thornton was supposed to mule it back to the States from one of the ports he stopped in, give it to Maxwell and Ames, and get the second half of a quarter-million.

2004, William Glenn, The Sailor's Death:

(transitive, slang) To smuggle (illegal drugs).

en-verb

mule (third-person singular simple present mules, present participle muling, simple past and past participle muled)

mules (present singular third-person)
muling (participle present)
muled (participle past)
muled (past)


mule

The bride was a shocking housekeeper and dragged round all day in boudoir cap, frowsy negligee and mules—slip, slop, slip, slop.

1944, Emily Carr, “First Tenant”, in The House of All Sorts:

Routine dress for Tuesday will be bra and panties with high-heel satin mules.

1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 29:

Any shoe with an upper covering the front of the foot but without a back flap or strap, leaving the heel exposed.

From Middle French mule (“backless slipper”), from Medieval Latin mula (“slipper, shoe with a thick sole”), presumably from classical Latin mulleus, the dyed shoe of either the patricians or senators, from mūllus (“red mullet”) + -eus (“-y: forming adjectives”), from Ancient Greek μύλλος (múllos).


mule

Inherited from Old French mule, from Latin mūla, feminine of mūlus.


mule

second-person singular imperative of mulir

(reintegrationist norm) inflection of mulir:

third-person singular present indicative

inflection of mulir:
second-person singular imperative


mule

inflection of mula:
nominative/accusative plural


mule

English: mule

Scots: mule

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman mule, from Latin mūla, feminine of mūlus; reinforced by native Old English mūl, from the same Latin source.


mule

mulen (definite singular)
muler (indefinite plural)
mulene (definite plural)


mule

mulen (definite singular)
mular (indefinite plural)
mulane (definite plural)


mule

mular (present)
mula (past)
mula (participle past)
mulast (infinitive passive)
mulande (participle present)
mule (imperative)
mul (imperative)

From Old Norse múli, from Proto-Germanic *mūlô. The verb is derived from the noun.


mule

(eye dialect spelling, Trøndelag) Alternative form of mogeleg (“possible”)


mule

mūle (canonical masculine)
masculine
mūle (indefinite nominative singular)
mūlen (definite nominative singular)
mūlar (indefinite nominative plural)
mūlarnir (definite nominative plural)
mūla (accusative indefinite singular)
mūlan (accusative definite singular)
mūla (accusative indefinite plural)
mūlana (accusative definite plural)
mūla (dative indefinite singular)
mūlanom (dative definite singular)
mūlom (dative indefinite plural)
mūlonom (dative definite plural)
mūla (genitive indefinite singular)
mūlans (definite genitive singular)
mūla (genitive indefinite plural)
mūlanna (definite genitive plural)

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mūle

Swedish: mule


mule

nominative/accusative/vocative plural of mul


mule

nominative/accusative/vocative plural of mula


mule

a rhinarium (of an ungulate, like a cow, horse, or reindeer – the front of the upper lip, which is moist in cows and dry in horses and is usually either hairless or has a different type of hair compared to the rest of the muzzle)

Rudolf med röda mulen, hette en helt vanlig ren, som blivit kall om mulen, därav kom dess röda sken. Rudolf fick alltid höra: "Se, han har sitt dimljus på!" Att han blev led åt detta, är en sak man kan förstå. Men en mörk julaftonskväll, tomtefar han sa: "Vill du inte Rudolf, säg, med din mule lysa mig?" Allt sen den dagen renen, tomtens egen släde drar. Rudolf med röda mulen, lyser väg åt tomtefar.

1949, “Rudolf med röda mulen [Rudolf with the red nose]”, Eric Sandström (lyrics), Johnny Marks (music):

Rudolf with the red nose, was the name of a [completely] ordinary reindeer, who had gotten a cold nose [had become cold about/around the nose], thence [thereof] came its red glow. Rudolf always got to hear: "Look, he has his fog light on!" That he got tired of this, is something one can understand. But one dark Christmas Eve night, Santa Claus, he said: "Don't you want to, Rudolf, say, with your nose, light my way [light me]?" Ever since that day the reindeer, Santa's own sleigh pulls. Rudolf with the red nose, lights Santa Claus's way [lights way for Santa Claus].

På fyra ben går den som jag gillar allra bäst. Gillar, gillar, gillar allra mest. Jag sitter på hans rygg för det är min lilla häst. Är min lilla häst. Vad du är söt, min kära lilla ponny. Vad du är snäll, min kära lilla häst. Du säger ingenting, min kära lilla ponny, men du är den jag gillar bäst! Se pälsen den är svart liksom kappan på en präst. Kappan, kappan, kappan på en präst. En mule mjuk som sammet, det har min lilla häst. Har min lilla häst. Vad du är ... [as before]. Min ponny vet så väl att på lördag är det fest. Lördag, lördag, lördag är det fest. En krubba full med havre, det får min lilla häst. Får min lilla häst. Vad du är ... [as before]. Av allting här i världen, jag önskar allra mest – önskar, önskar, önskar allra mest – att aldrig jag ska skiljas ifrån min lilla häst. Från min lilla häst. Vad du är söt ... [as before]

1962, Gullan Bornemark (lyrics and music), “Min ponny [My pony]”, in Gumman i lådan ["Jill in the box" (see gubben i lådan and gumma)]:

On four legs walks the one that I like the very most [best]. Like the, like the, like the very most. I sit on his back because it is my little horse. Is my little horse. How cute you are, my dear little pony. How kind you are, my dear little horse. You don't say anything [or, "you say nothing" – both are idiomatically expressed the same way], my dear little pony, but you're the one I like the most [best]! Look, the coat [fur] is black like the coat of [on] a priest. The coat, the coat, the coat of [on] a priest. A nose as soft as velvet, [that] has my little horse. Has my little horse. How cute you ... [as before]. My pony knows so well that on Saturday there is a party ["on Saturday there is party" – implies every Saturday here]. Saturday, Saturday, Saturday there is a party. A manger full of oats, [that] gets my little horse. Gets my little horse. How cute you ... [as before]. Out of everything [here] in the world, I wish the very most – wish the, wish the, wish the very most – that never I shall be parted from my little horse ["ska" usually doesn't match "shall" in tone, but the phrasing here is pretty literary anyway]. From my little horse. How cute you ... [as before]

(closer in tone, as "mule" is not a technical-sounding word) a nose, a muzzle, tip of the snout

mule (indefinite nominative singular)
mules (genitive indefinite singular)
mulen (definite nominative singular)
mulens (definite genitive singular)
mular (indefinite nominative plural)
mulars (genitive indefinite plural)
mularna (definite nominative plural)
mularnas (definite genitive plural)