单词 | mullet |
释义 | mulletn.1α. Middle English molet, Middle English mulet, Middle English–1500s molett, Middle English–1500s molette, 1500s moulet, 1500s mullett, 1500s– mullet, 1600s mullot. β. Middle English milvet, Middle English mylet, Middle English myllott, Middle English–1600s millet, late Middle English 1600s melet, 1600s millett. Any of various edible, mainly marine fishes, esp. of the families Mullidae (the red mullets) and Mugilidae (the grey mullets); (U.S.) a grey mullet. Also with unmarked plural.hog-, jumping-, king-, red, thick-headed mullet: see the first element. flat-tailed mullet: see flat adj., adv., and n.3 Compounds 2.like a stunned mullet: see stunned adj. 3. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Percoidei > [noun] > family Mullidae > member of (red mullet) mullet1393 rougetc1485 surmulleta1672 red mullet1734 red surmullet1769 bearded gurnard1803 the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > [noun] > suborder Mugiloidei (mullets) > family Mugilidae > genus Mugil > member of (mullet) mullet1393 mugila1398 mowel?a1500 harder1658 springer1700 kanae1820 calipeva1832 pudding-ball1847 macho1882 α. β. c1450 in T. Austin Two 15th-cent. Cookery-bks. (1888) 104 (MED) Take a Millet and scale him.?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 765/9 Hic molanus, a melet.1686 F. Willughby & J. Ray De Hist. Piscium 210 In litore nostro raro capitur, diciturque Melet.1393 in L. T. Smith Exped. Prussia & Holy Land Earl Derby (1894) 213 (MED) Pro moletts, xxxviij s. Et pro schrympes, xliiij s. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 342 Molet, fysche, mullus. 1508 Bk. Keruynge (de Worde) sig. B.iiiv Base troute molette. 1568 T. Hacket tr. A. Thevet New Found Worlde f. 39v This Riuer hath great quantitie of good fish of diuers kindes, chiefly greate moulets. 1574 T. Newton tr. G. Gratarolo Direct. Health Magistrates & Studentes L ij If a liuinge Mullet be put into wine and choked. 1589 Hawkin's Voy. 14 A very good place of fishing for Pargoes, Mullet, and Dogge fishe. 1612 B. Jonson Alchemist iv. i. sig. I Wee will eate our Mullets, Sous'd in high-countrey Wines. View more context for this quotation 1655 I. Walton Compl. Angler (ed. 2) iv. 95 A Chichester Lobster, an Arundel Mullet, and an Amerly Trout. 1726 G. Shelvocke Voy. round World ii. 55 All their bays and creeks are well stock'd with mullets. 1734 A. Pope Satires of Horace ii. ii. 21 Of Carps and Mullets why prefer the great? 1774 Guthrie's New Geogr. Gram. (ed. 4) 183 Her rivers..contain plenty of..mullet, bream, plaice, flounders, and crawfish. 1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. III. 157 The Common Mullet... Mugil cephalus. Linn. 1836 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Fishes I. 27 The Red Mullets were well known to the ancients. 1888 G. B. Goode Amer. Fishes 365 On our eastern coast..the most familiar is the Striped Mullet, Mugil albula. 1925 J. T. Jenkins Fishes Brit. Isles 123 There are a large number of species of mullets in the genus Mugil. 1942 National Geographic Mag. June 775 (caption) Using encirclement tactics, Kusaie fishermen close in on a catch of mullet. 1966 Encycl. N.Z. II. 600/2 A familiar sight is the gleaming flash as a mullet leaps out of the water and returns to its element. 1991 Salt Water Sportsman Feb. 63/1 Aboard his 62-foot Merritt, Rick drags two teasers, a big swimming mullet on one side and a softhead on the other. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † mulletn.2 Obsolete. rare. = muller n.1 ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for altering consistency > [noun] > crushing or grinding mullet1398 mill1560 rammer1630 pulverizer1635 crackera1640 hand mill1656 grinder1688 mortar1733 pestle mill1773 pulverer1778 bruiser1809 smasher1822 muller1823 pug mill1824 crusher1825 pounding machine1839 pug1859 disintegrator1874 micronizer1934 1398 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1836) I. 245 (MED) [Apothecary's will] j draghyng-dobler cum les moletts. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. at Mullar Often called improperly mullet. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2020). mulletn.3 1. Heraldry. A figure of a star with five straight points (unless a larger number is specified), as a charge or as a mark of cadency for a third son.Perhaps originally pierced to represent a spur-rowel. In modern practice, if the mullet is pierced this is specified in the blazon. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > representations of weapons or armour > [noun] > spur > mullet mulletc1425 rowel1562 spur rial1680 spur-rowel1820 c1425 (c1400) Laud Troy-bk. 8713 He beres an egle..And he hath rose & he has molettis. 1486 Coote Armuris sig. biv, in Bk. St. Albans Fixall in armys is calde the thirde degre..thay may bere there faderis cote armure with a differans molet. 1562 G. Legh Accedens of Armory 178 A Mullet of v. poyntes sable... This may be also of vii. poyntes, but of no more. 1612 H. Peacham Gentlemans Exercise iii. 172 You must take heede that you take not a starre for a mullet. 1682 W. Dugdale Antient Usage 55 To the second Brother they assigned a Cresent: to the third a Mullet of five points; to the fourth a Martlett [etc.]. 1716 S. Kent Gram. Heraldry at Sir Justus Beck Beareth Quarterly three Coats; viz. 1st. Or, a Raven proper. 2d. and 3d, Sable, a Mullet Or [etc.]. 1808 W. Scott Marmion vi. ii. 317 And in the chief three mullets stood, The cognizance of Douglas blood. 1863 C. Boutell Man. Heraldry xvi. 167 The St. Johns, in like manner, bear mullets on a chief. 1950 C. W. Scott-Giles Boutell's Heraldry (rev. ed.) viii. 83 The estoile must be distinguished from the star-shaped figure called a molet, or mullet, which has straight rays and may be pierced. 1970 Armorial 6 28 Their family ‘stars and stripes’ are certainly in the right colours: silver two bars (and in chief three molets) gules. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [noun] > art of horse-riding > use of hands and legs > using spurs > rowel or spike of spur rowelc1425 mullet1494 spur-rowel1611 gaff1808 1494 Loutfut MS f. 37, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Mol(l)et(t) Mollites ar scharp poingnantes and ar ordanit to be put apon spurris to correk the hors. 1830 G. P. R. James Darnley III. v. 111 The horse's feet were brought on the very brink of the river, and a slight touch of the mullet made him plunge over. Compounds mullet-footed adj. ΚΠ 1897 Trans. Glasgow Archæol. Soc. 3 i. 219 This is known as a lobed or mullet-footed chalice. mullet-shaped adj. ΚΠ 1851 A. Strickland Lives Queens of England I. 236 A mullet-shaped brooch. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † mulletn.4 Obsolete. In plural. A kind of pincers or tweezers. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > clutching or gripping equipment > [noun] > tongs or pincers > other tongs or pincers mullets1585 corn-tongs1622 pin tongs1846 1585 J. Banister Wecker's Compend. Chyrurg. i. xi. 88 Dilate, and stretch wide open, with mullets, or little hookes, the lippes or borders of the deuided skinne. 1616 B. Jonson Cynthias Revels (rev. ed.) v. iv, in Wks. I. 246 Here is a haire too much, take it off. Where are thy mullets? 1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. xxvii. xvii. 1113 Cutting Mullets. Mullets onely to hold and not to cut. Mullets to take forth splinters of bones. Mullets to draw Teeth. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2019). mulletn.5 Now U.S. regional. = mullein n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Scrophulariaceae (figwort and allies) > [noun] > mullein feltwortc1000 verbascumOE Thapsusa1400 mullein?a1425 hag taper1526 high-taper1526 tapsebarbe1526 lungwort1538 torch1552 moth mullein1578 wolleyn1578 woollen1578 hedge-taper1579 wool-blade1585 bullock's lungwort1597 candlewick mullein1597 mullet1597 torch-herb1598 taperwort1601 torchwort1647 Jupiter's staff1664 cow's lungwort1777 shepherd's club1790 woollens1800 flannel-leaf1821 Adam's flannel1828 flannel-plant1849 king's taper1858 torch-blade1861 velvet-dock1863 Jacob's staff1879 shepherd's staff1882 wool-plant1883 shepherd's gourd1896 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 390 The first..kind of Conyza hath large and broade leaues, like Verbascum nigrum, or black Mullet. 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 391 I would gladly haue Conyza to be called in English Fleabane Mullet. 1729 E. Smith Compl. Housewife (ed. 3) 285 Take of the tops of Parsley, of Mullet, and of Elder-buds, of each 1 handful. 1996 Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. III. 729/2 Mullet = mullein. 1968–70 DARE (Qu. S20) Infs NY68, VA52, Mullet. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). mulletn.6 English regional (north-eastern). The Atlantic puffin, Fratercula arctica. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Alcidae (auks) > [noun] > fratercula arctica (puffin) scout1596 willock1606 bottlenose1620 parrot1664 sea-parrot1664 guldenhead1676 coulterneb1678 mullet1678 puffin1678 cockandy1684 sea-coulter1684 bowger1698 norie1701 tammie norie1701 popea1705 lunda1744 rock-bird1765 puffin-auk1768 tommy noddy1769 Tomnoddy1771 Tommya1777 Tomnorry1793 Tommy1828 sea-owl1842 1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. iii. v. 325 The Bird called Coulterneb at the Farn Islands,..at Scarburgh Mullet..: Anas Arctica Clus. 1852 W. Macgillivray Hist. Brit. Birds V. 365 Mormon arcticus. The Arctic Puffin... Mullet. 1885 C. Swainson Provincial Names Brit. Birds 220 Puffin (Fratercula arctica)... Mullet (Scarborough). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † mulletn.7 Firearms. Obsolete. Some part of a musket barrel, perhaps a decorative moulding (cf. muller n.2). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > parts and fittings of firearms > [noun] > barrel > part of musket barrel mullet1688 square1688 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xviii. 134/2 The seuerall parts of the Barrell of a Muskett. The Barrell. The squares. The mulletts. 1881 W. W. Greener Gun & its Devel. 50 Their [sc. the Italian gunsmiths'] early barrels..were beautifully formed on the outside, with many squares and mullers [sic]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2020). mulletn.8 Joinery. rare. A piece of wood containing a groove for testing the thickness of panel edges, drawer bottoms, etc., before fitting. ΚΠ 1933 N.E.D. Suppl. Mullet. 1966 A. W. Lewis Gloss. Woodworking Terms 59 Mullet, short length of wood with a groove ploughed in it. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). mulletn.9 slang (humorous and frequently derogatory). A hairstyle, worn esp. by men, in which the hair is cut short at the front and sides, and left long at the back. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > styles of hair > [noun] > other specific styles of hair > for men French cut1583 pigeon wing1753 pompadour1885 D.A.1951 duck anatomy1951 duck-tail1955 Tony Curtis1956 duck arse1960 duck behind1961 comb-over1980 mullet1994 1994 ‘Beastie Boys’ Mullet Head (transcribed from song) in Ill Communication You wanna know what's a mullet? Well I got a little story to tell About a hair style, that's a way of life Have you ever seen a mullet wife? 1995 Grand Royal No. 2. 46 The Mullet does not discriminate, though it is rare to see one worn by a senior citizen of any stripe. 1997 Independent on Sunday 2 Feb. (Real Life section) 2/1 Connoisseurs of the absurd in gentlemen's hairdressing have been enjoying a laugh at..those unfortunates who continue to commit that most heinous fashion don't—the Mullet. 1998 Sunday Mirror 12 Apr. (Personal Suppl.) 3/2 The Mullet... If you have one, then a word in your ear: Scissors. 2000 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) 16 Apr. (Seven Days section) 1/4 A malodorous guy with a flowing mullet. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † mulletv. Obsolete. rare. transitive. To pluck with tweezers. Cf. mullet n.4 ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > removal or displacement > extraction > extract [verb (transitive)] > with tweezers mulleta1644 tweezer1848 tweeze1932 a1644 F. Quarles Virgin Widow (1649) v. i And then Cis must be call'd, and then her Ladiships haire must be crispt,..and then her Ladiships browes must be mullited. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < |
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