mouli
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.42 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A hand-operated kitchen utensil designed for grating or pureeing small quantities of food.
Example Sentences
- "Certain fruits must be sieved or put through a mouli to get out the skins and pips."
- "Some moulis come with a selection of fine, medium or coarse discs."
- "He'd won her over by not only fronting to her annual making-of-the-tomato-sauce day, but also hand-cranking almost two hundred kilos of tomatoes through the moulis."
- "I then get out my trusty mouli and run the whole lot through it (my lovely friend and clever cooking teacher, Paola Bacchia, tells me Italians call a mouli, a 'passatutto', which sounds so much more lyrical to me)."