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mullered

mull·er·ed

mullered · more mullered · most mullered

Badly damaged or completely destroyedBadly damaged or completely destroyed; ruined, trashed, wrecked.

UK/ˈmʊləd/US/ˈmʊləɹd/

Meaning

4 senses

(UK, slang)Badly damaged or completely destroyed; ruined, trashed, wrecked.
My car isn’t driveable at the moment: the clutch is totally mullered.
(UK, slang)Drunk, inebriated.
Every Friday night we would go out and get completely mullered.
(UK, often, slang)Of a sportsperson, a team, etc.: utterly defeated or outplayed; destroyed, thrashed, trounced.
(Scotland, UK, obsolete, slang)Synonym of mouldered (“turned to dust; crumbled, decayed, rotted”).

Origin

From muller (“to destroy; to beat or thrash; to utterly defeat or outplay”) + -ed (suffix

From muller (“to destroy; to beat or thrash; to utterly defeat or outplay”) + -ed (suffix forming past tense and past participle forms of regular verbs). Muller is probably derived from Angloromani mul-, the preterite stem of mer- (“to die”) (compare mullered, mullo (“dead”, adjective); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mer- (“to die; to disappear”)) + English -er (suffix forming frequentative verbs).

A variant of mouldered, from moulder (“to decay, rot”) + -ed (suffix forming past tense and past participle forms of regular verbs). Moulder is derived from mould (“loose friable soil; rotting earth regarded as the substance of the human body”) + -er (suffix forming frequentative verbs), probably influenced by mould (“furry growth of fungi”); and mould is from Middle English mold, molde (“loose friable soil, dirt, earth; earth as the substance out of which God made man, and to which the human body decays into after death”), from Old English molde (“earth, soil”), from Proto-Germanic *muldō (“dirt, soil; furry growth of fungi, mould”), from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to crush, grind”).

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