See mullered on Wiktionary
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"ref": "2020, Rob[ert] Key, “Cry Me a River”, in ‘Oi, Key’: Tales of a Journeyman Cricketer, Barnsley, South Yorkshire; Philadelphia, Pa.: White Owl Books, Pen & Sword Books, →ISBN:",
"text": "At Christmas he told us, 'Right, I'll take you to the best bar in Adelaide – Crazy Horse.' […] Crazy Horse had become our regular Tuesday night haunt. […] [W]e couldn't go out on a Saturday and get mullered, so on a Tuesday, ahead of a slightly easier day on Wednesday, off we'd go to Crazy Horse.",
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"ref": "2011, Alex Wheatle, “It’s All Red on the Night”, in Brenton Brown, London: Arcadia Books, published 2013, →ISBN, page 260:",
"text": "Looks like we're going to have a majority of around thirty, forty seats. I really can't wait to see [Jeremy] Paxman grilling the Tory top brass to explain their defeat. […] I better phone home and make sure that gets recorded. Mullered, they were, the Tory cunts. Absolutely mullered! Especially in London.",
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"ref": "2019, Laurel Kerr [pseudonym; Erin Laurel O’Brien], chapter 1, in Sweet Wild of Mine (Where the Wild Hearts Are; book 2), Naperville, Ill.: Sourcebooks Casablanca, →ISBN:",
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"extra": "turned to dust; crumbled, decayed, rotted",
"tags": [
"synonym",
"synonym-of"
],
"word": "mouldered"
}
],
"tags": [
"Scotland",
"UK",
"obsolete",
"slang"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈmʊləd/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈmʌl-/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-mullered.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/cf/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-mullered.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-mullered.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/cf/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-mullered.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-mullered.wav.ogg"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈmʊləɹd/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈmʌl-/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
}
],
"word": "mullered"
}
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