mule
English
/mjuːl/
noun
Definitions
- The generally sterile male or female hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse.
- The generally sterile hybrid offspring of any two species of animals.
- (dated) A hybrid plant.
- (informal) A stubborn person.
- (slang) A person paid to smuggle drugs.
- (numismatics) A coin or medal minted with obverse and reverse designs not normally seen on the same piece, either intentionally or in error.
- (RPG) 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.
- (sailing) A kind of triangular sail for a yacht.
- A kind of cotton-spinning machine.
Etymology
Derived from mul inherited from Old English mūl derived from Latin mūlus (mule) derived from Proto-Indo-European *mukslós.
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*mukslós
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Muleshoe English
- back English
- credit English
- credit mule English
- load English
- mule skinner English
- muleback English
- muleless English
- mulelike English
- muleload English
- muleskinner English
- muleteer English
- muleteering English
- mulish English
- mulishly English
- mulishness English
- shoe English
- skinner English
- mūlus Latin
- muletier French
- mulato Spanish, Castilian
- mulo Spanish, Castilian
- *mukslós Proto-Indo-European
- mu Portuguese
- mulato Portuguese
- mulo Portuguese
- ミュール Japanese
- mul Old English
- mūl Old English
- miúil Irish
- *mulъ Proto-Slavic
- müll Cimbrian
- mul xno