mullet
See also: Mullet
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Wikispecies From Middle English molet, mulett, from Old French mulet (now ‘grey mullet’), from Latin mullus (“red mullet”), from Ancient Greek μύλλος (múllos).
Noun edit
mullet (plural mullets or mullet)
- A fish of the family Mullidae (order Syngnathiformes), especially the genus Mullus (red mullets or goatfish).
- (especially US) A fish of the family Mugilidae (order Mugiliformes) (grey mullets).
- (US) Any of several species of freshwater fish in the sucker family (especially in the genus Moxostoma, redhorses)
Synonyms edit
Derived terms edit
- black mullet
- black true mullet
- bright mullet
- bully mullet
- callifaver mullet
- common grey mullet
- common mullet
- diamond mullet
- finger mullet
- flathead grey mullet
- flathead mullet
- gray mullet
- hardgut mullet
- Lebranche mullet
- mangrove mullet
- pearl mullet
- popeye mullet
- proto-mullet
- red mullet
- river mullet
- sea mullet
- so-iuy mullet
- striped mullet
- stunned mullet
Translations edit
fish of the family Mugilidae (grey mullets)
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fish of the family Mullidae (red mullets)
Etymology 2 edit
Also termed a mullethead, possibly derived from the fish (see Etymology 1) or from mull (meaning to stupefy) though neither is certain.[1]
Noun edit
mullet (plural mullets)
- A fool.
Etymology 3 edit
1994 US. Coined and popularized by hip hop group the Beastie Boys in their song "Mullet Head".
Noun edit
mullet (plural mullets)
- A hairstyle where the hair is kept short on the top and sides and long at the back.
- Synonym: hockey hair
- Coordinate term: bilevel
- 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[2]:
- – Maybe it's a curly fro.
– Maybe every day is bad hair day!
– Maybe it's a mullet!
- (slang) A person who mindlessly follows a fad, a trend, or a leader.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
hairstyle
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person who follows fad
See also edit
Etymology 4 edit
From Middle English molet, from Old French molette (“rowel”).
Noun edit
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.
- The rowel of a spur.
Coordinate terms edit
References edit
- ^ “Archived copy”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[1], 2011 November 10 (last accessed), archived from the original on 16 June 2012
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English mullet.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mullet m (plural mullets)
- mullet (men’s hairstyle that is long in the back and short in the front)