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muller

Syllables: mull·er/ˈmʌlə/US/ˈmʌləɹ/

muller noun: a person who mulls wine or other alcoholic beverages.

Noun (1)

muller (plural mullers)

  1. A person who mulls wine or other alcoholic beverages.
  2. A vessel in which wine, etc., is mulled over a fire.

Noun (2)

muller (plural mullers)

  1. A machine that mixes clay and sand under a roller for use in preparing a mould for metal casting.
    • The muller can easily plow through any sand mixture that I put in it and has plenty of power left over.2008, Stephen Chastain, Build a Muller, →ISBN, page 93
    Synonyms:
    sand muller

Noun (3)

muller (plural mullers)

  1. (pharmacy) A stone with a flat grinding surface, which is held in the hand and rubbed on a slab to grind paint pigments, medicinal powders, etc.
    • The muller provides, in addition, a useful means of comparing the important property of the rate of strength development of pigments.1994, John Wilder Tukey, David R. Brillinger, The collected works of John W. Tukey, →ISBN, page 607
  2. (broadly) A device used for crushing or grinding.

Verb (1)

muller (third-person singular simple present mullers, present participle mullering, simple past and past participle mullered)

  1. (colloquial, obsolete, rare, transitive) To grind up (something) into, or as if into, powder.
    • The mixing is conducted in a water-bath, and during this process, and as long as the phosphorus is being ground or ‘mullered,’ copious fumes are evolved.1848, On Lucifer Matches, in the Pharmaceutical Journal, volume 7 (1847-8), page 523

Verb (2)

UK/ˈmʊlə/US/ˈmʊləɹ/

muller (third-person singular simple present mullers, present participle mullering, simple past and past participle mullered)

  1. (UK, slang, transitive) To destroy (something); to ruin, to wreck.
  2. (UK, slang, transitive) To beat or thrash (someone).
    • We walked down to the golf club to get a beer; they readily agreed as we went, it had been a dreadful game. Macca [Steve McMahon] asked Gazza [Paul Gascoigne], had he heard? – they were getting ‘mullered’ back home. […] Gazza said he wasn’t surprised, it was fair enough – and Macca said the same....1990, Pete Davies, “All Played Out: England–Ireland”, in All Played Out: The Full Story of Italia ’90, London: Mandarin Paperbacks, published 1991, →ISBN, page 235
    • You needn't make so much fuss. Nobody's going to bother about you. It's me that's going to get mullered.2001 June, Rebecca Tope, chapter 4, in Dark Undertakings, 1st St. Martin’s Minotaur (American) edition, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Dunne Books, →ISBN, section VIII, page 137
  3. (UK, often, slang, transitive) To utterly defeat or outplay (a sportsperson, a team, etc.); to destroy, to thrash, to trounce.
    Synonyms:
    outclass

Verb (3)

muller (third-person singular simple present mullers, present participle mullering, simple past and past participle mullered)

  1. (UK, obsolete, slang, transitive) To cut down or reduce the height of (a top hat).

Proper noun capitalized: Muller

Muller (plural Mullers)

  1. A surname from German [in turn originating as an occupation].
    • “In the past you had to pick your battles, you had limited resources and limited attorneys, so you picked the things that you thought would have the biggest stakes,” Muller said. Now, election litigators don’t have to be so “choosy.”2024 April 11, Fredreka Schouten and Tierney Sneed, “GOP leaders pursue new lawsuits over 2024 election rules – including attacking methods of voting they want supporters to use”, in CNN

muller meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Bengali

muller in Hindi

मुलर

muller in Tamil

மட்டிக்கல், மணகலக்கி, மண் கலக்கி

muller in Marathi

मुलर, मुल्लर

muller in Bengali

মুলার
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muller in Telugu
ముల్లర్
muller in Kannada
ಮುಲ್ಲರ್
muller in Punjabi
ਮੁੱਲਰ
muller in Gujarati
મુલર
muller in Odia
ମୁଲର୍
muller in Nepali
मुलर

Examples of muller in a sentence

  • Macca [Steve McMahon] asked Gazza [Paul Gascoigne], had he heard? – they were getting ‘mullered’ back home. […] Gazza said he wasn’t surprised, it was fair enough – and Macca said the same.1990, Pete Davies, “All Played Out: England–Ireland”, in All Played Out: The Full Story of Italia ’90, London: Mandarin Paperbacks...
  • "They mullered him, Jimmy." Spider shook his head.2009, Martina Cole, Close, →ISBN, page 286:
  • The boys couldn't stand idly by while three Wednesdayites got mullered; it was not the done thing.2012, Anthony Cronshaw, Wednesday Rucks and Rock 'n' Roll: Tales from the East Bank:

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Synonyms of muller

Forms of muller

Noun
pluralmullers
Verb
third-person singular presentmullers
present participlemullering
past participlemullered
pastmullered
Proper noun
pluralMullers
alternative formMueller
alternative formMüller

Plural of muller: mullers

Origin of muller

From mull (“to heat and spice, etc.”, verb) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns).

From mull (“to mix (clay and sand) under a roller to prepare a mould”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns). Mull is possibly derived from mull (“(chiefly Northern England) to grind to powder, crumble, powder, pulverize”), from Middle English mollen, mullen (“to moisten (something); to soften (something) by making wet; to become liquid; to drizzle; to crumble or soften (something) by grinding; to fondle or pet (something)”), from Old French moillier, muillier (“to make wet”) (modern French mouiller), and from its etymon Vulgar Latin *molliāre, *mulliāre (“to make wet”), from Latin molliāre, the present active infinitive of molliō (“to soften”), from Latin mollis (“soft”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld- (“to melt; to soften”) or *melh₂- (“to crush, grind”)) + -iō (suffix forming factitive verbs from adjectives).

The noun is derived from Late Middle English molour, moler; further origin uncertain, possibly: * from mull (“(Northern England) something reduced to fine particles”, noun) or mull (“(chiefly Northern England) to grind to powder, crumble, powder, pulverize”, verb) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns) (see etymology 2); or * from an unattested Anglo-Norman or Middle French noun, from Old French moldre, moudre (“to grind”) (modern French moudre), from Latin molere, the present active infinitive of molō (“to grind, to mill”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to crush, grind”); or * a variant of mullet (“(obsolete) stone for grinding”) + -er; mullet is derived from French molette (“pestle”). The verb is derived from the noun.

Words formed from muller

Words that rhyme with muller

Questions about muller

What does muller mean?
Muller means a person who mulls wine or other alcoholic beverages.
What is muller in Hindi?
Muller in Hindi is मुलर. See Muller meaning in Hindi.
How do you use muller in a sentence?
Macca [Steve McMahon] asked Gazza [Paul Gascoigne], had he heard? – they were getting ‘mullered’ back home. […] Gazza said he wasn’t surprised, it was fair enough – and Macca said the same.
What part of speech is muller?
Muller can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce muller?
Muller is pronounced /ˈmʌlə/ (UK).
What is the plural of muller?
The plural of muller is mullers.

Words near muller in the dictionary

  1. Mullengudgery
  2. Mullenix
  3. Mullenixes
  4. mullens
  5. Mullenweg
  6. muller
  7. Muller's morphs
  8. Muller's ratchet
  9. mullered
  10. mullerian
  11. mullerian duct

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Adapted from Wiktionary: muller (page history and authors); Muller (page history and authors); muller (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); muller (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); muller (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); muller (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); muller (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); muller (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); muller (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); muller (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); muller (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); muller (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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