mule
The generally sterile male or female hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horseThe generally sterile male or female hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse.
» Tom is as stubborn as a mule.
Том впертий як віслюк.
Meaning
11 sensesThe generally sterile male or female hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse.
Maultier, Muli
мулmul
мулmul
hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse; usually sterile
The generally sterile hybrid offspring of any two species of animals.
(informal)A stubborn person.
(slang)A person paid to smuggle drugs.
верблю́дverbljúd, мулmul
A coin or medal minted with obverse and reverse designs not normally seen on the same piece, either intentionally or in error.
A MMORPG character, or NPC companion in a tabletop RPG, used mainly to store extra inventory for the owner's primary character.
Any of a group of cocktails involving ginger ale or ginger beer, citrus juice, and various liquors.
A kind of triangular sail for a yacht.
A kind of cotton-spinning machine.
Any shoe with an upper covering the front of the foot but without a back flap or strap, leaving the heel exposed.
Pantolette
(archaic)A hybrid plant.
Examples
66 sentencesTom is as stubborn as a mule.
Том впертий як віслюк.
Tom got kicked by a mule.
ruТома лягнул мул.
I got kicked by a mule.
Tom was kicked by a mule.
Tom has never ridden a mule.
Translations
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Origin
Inherited from Middle English mule, from Anglo-Norman mule (“she-mule”) and Old English mūInherited from Middle English mule, from Anglo-Norman mule (“she-mule”) and Old English mūl, both ultimately from Latin mūlus, from Proto-Indo-European *mukslós. Compare Late Latin muscellus (“young he-mule”), Old East Slavic мъшкъ (mŭškŭ, “mule”), Ancient Greek (Phocian) μυχλός (mukhlós, “he-ass”), and German Maul Maultier, Maulesel (through Latin).
From Middle French mule (“backless slipper”), from Medieval Latin mula (“slipper, shoe with a thick sole”), presumably from classical Latin mulleus, the dyed shoe of either the patricians or senators, from mūllus (“red mullet”) + -eus (“-y: forming adjectives”), from Ancient Greek μύλλος (múllos).
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