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mullety

mullety adjective: resembling a mullet (haircut); mullet-like (also figuratively), short or tame in the front and long or wilder in the back.

mullety: resembling a mullet (haircut); mullet-like (also figuratively), short or tame in the front and long...
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Adjective (1)

mullety (not comparable)

  1. Resembling a mullet (haircut); mullet-like (also figuratively), short or tame in the front and long or wilder in the back.
    • Her hair is short and mullety, the same as mine when I was little—like Ned, she's totally out of step with fashion, but somehow still cool. Papa half in and half out of every photo, Grey with flowers braided through his plaits.2016 May 3, Harriet Reuter Hapgood, The Square Root of Summer, Roaring Brook Press, →ISBN, page 94
    • In the grooming department, there's no competition: Trevor's mullety mop of hair cannot hope to compete with this breed, nor can Cory's Willie Nelson braids. As for brains, we already know the answer to this one.2016 July 19, Matthew Sibiga, Don Wininger, The Complete Trailer Park Boys: How to Enjoy the Trailer Park Boys When the Cable is Out, Random House Canada, →ISBN

Adjective (2)

mullety (not comparable)

  1. Starry, strewn with mullets (heraldic stars). (Also figuratively.)
    • Aurora the Knight Awakes
      Within a dream the night a crescent smiles, / As palely seen a sleeping knight slow turns / Who restless, battles care of many miles / While mullety his sable shield still burns. / Aurora's hands reach lightly out to[…]1996, Richard Alan Edwards, A Long Knight's Journey Into Day: a book of poems, Rich Edwards, page 28
    • ... an interestingly complex design of Or a fillet cross Sable between a plow, a pick and shovel in saltire, an arm wielding a hammer, and an anchor fouled, all Proper, on an inescutcheon paly Gules and Argent a chief Azure mullety[…]2000, L'identità genealogica e araldica: fonti, metodologie, interdisciplinarità, prospettive : atti del XXIII Congresso internazionale di scienze genealogica e araldica, Torino, Archivio di Stato...

Examples of mullety in a sentence

  • More people who would need to put their phones away, Kiki thought, watching the husbands, with their blue shirts and slightly mullety hair, frowning into their screens.2018 February 1, Wendy Holden, Last of the Summer Moët: A sparkling rom-com that will make you laugh out loud, Head of Zeus Ltd, →ISBN:
  • The Vernal headquarters of Fish and Wildlife is a mullety block of beige government cubicles with an unruly garage[…]2022 January 21, Heather Hansman, Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 99:

Forms of mullety

alternative formmulletty

Origin of mullety

From mullet (“haircut”) + -y.

From mullet (“heraldic star”) + -y.

Questions about mullety

What does mullety mean?
Mullety means resembling a mullet (haircut); mullet-like (also figuratively), short or tame in the front and long or wilder in the back.
How do you use mullety in a sentence?
More people who would need to put their phones away, Kiki thought, watching the husbands, with their blue shirts and slightly mullety hair, frowning into their screens.
What part of speech is mullety?
Mullety is an adjective.

Words near mullety in the dictionary

  1. mulletlike
  2. mullets
  3. mullett
  4. mulletts
  5. mulletty
  6. mullety
  7. Mullewa
  8. mulley
  9. mulleygrubs
  10. mulleys
  11. Mullica

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