mullocks

Noun

mullock (usually uncountable, plural mullocks)

1. (UK, dialectal, usually) Rubbish, waste matter.
2. (Australia, New Zealand, usually) Overburden: waste material generated while searching for minerals or while mining, such as when sinking a shaft.
3. (Australia, New Zealand, usually) Tailings: waste rock from which the wanted gold, minerals, opal, etc., has been extracted.
   • The gold, both in the quartz and mullock, is very fine, and, owing to the soft and ferruginous nature of the stuff, specks can but very rarely be seen during working.1875, New Zealand House of Representatives, Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives of New Zealand, Volume 2, page 30
4. (usually) Nonsense, rubbish.
5. (UK, Yorkshire, dialectal, usually) A mess; the result of a blunder.
   • For when they saw awr Mary, / They made a mullock on it, / For they thowt 'at all them flaars / Had been put on Mary's bonnet.1911, John Hartley, Yorkshire Lyrics: Poems written in the dialect as spoken in the west riding of Yorkshire, page 242

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