mullet
See also: Mullet
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmʌlɪt/, /ˈmʌlət/
Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ʌlɪt
- Rhymes: -ʌlət
Etymology 1
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Mullet catch
Wikispecies From Middle English molet, mulett, from Old French mulet (now ‘grey mullet’), from Latin mullus (“red mullet”), from Ancient Greek μύλλος (múllos).
Noun
mullet (plural mullets or mullet)
- A fish of the family Mullidae (order Syngnathiformes), especially the genus Mullus (the red mullets or goatfish).
- (especially US) A fish of the family Mugilidae (order Mugiliformes) (the grey mullets).
- (US) Any of several species of freshwater fish in the sucker family (especially in the genus Moxostoma, the redhorses)
Synonyms
- (Mugillidae): haarder
- (Mugillidae): springer
Derived terms
Derived terms
- black mullet
- black true mullet
- bright mullet
- bully mullet
- callifaver mullet
- common grey mullet
- common mullet
- finger mullet
- flathead mullet
- flathead grey mullet
- gray mullet
- hardgut mullet
- mangrove mullet
- popeye mullet
- red mullet
- river mullet
- sea mullet
- striped mullet
- stunned mullet
Translations
fish of the family Mugilidae (grey mullets)
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fish of the family Mullidae (red mullets)
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Etymology 2
Also termed a mullethead, possibly derived from the fish (see Etymology 1) or from mull (meaning to stupefy) though neither is certain.[1]
Noun
mullet (plural mullets)
- A fool.
Etymology 3
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David Bowie with a mullet hairstyle.
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Man with a long mullet hairstyle.
1994 US. Coined and popularized by hip hop group the Beastie Boys in their song "Mullet Head".
Noun
mullet (plural mullets)
- A hairstyle where the hair is kept short on the top and sides and long at the back.
- 1994, Beastie Boys "Mullet Head"
- – Mullet head, don't touch the back
- – Cut the sides, don't touch the back
- 2008, Danielle Corsetto, Girls With Slingshots 406
- – Maybe it's a curly fro.
- – Maybe every day is bad hair day!
- – Maybe it's a mullet!
- 1994, Beastie Boys "Mullet Head"
- (slang) A person who mindlessly follows a fad, a trend, or a leader.
Synonyms
- hockey hair
Derived terms
- skullet
Translations
hairstyle
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person who follows fad
Etymology 4
From Middle English molet, from Old French molette (“rowel”).
Noun
mullet (plural mullets)
- (heraldry) A star with straight edges and usually with five or six points.
- 1871, Debrett's illustrated baronetage and knightage (and companionage) of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, page 215:
- Grogan, Creation of 1859, or Moyvore, Westmeath. [...] Arms,—Barry of sex or and sable, on a chief engrailed azure a lion passant of the first. Crest,—A lion's head erased sable, charged with a mullet or.
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- The rowel of a spur.
Coordinate terms
- estoile
References
- (please provide the title of the work), accessed 10 November 2011, archived from the original on 2012-06-16
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English mullet.
Noun
mullet m (plural mullets)
- mullet (men’s hairstyle that is long in the back and short in the front)