mullet
/ˈmʌlɪt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.97 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A fool.
Example Sentences
- "– Mullet head, don't touch the back – Cut the sides, don't touch the back"
- "– Maybe it's a curly fro. – Maybe every day is bad hair day! – Maybe it's a mullet!"
- "Grogan, Creation of 1859, or Moyvore, Westmeath. [...] Arms,—Barry of sex or and sable, on a chief engrailed azure a lion passant of the first. Crest,—A lion's head erased sable, charged with a mullet or."
Etymology
From Middle English molet, mulett, from Old French mulet (now ‘grey mullet’), from Latin mullus (“red mullet”), from Ancient Greek μύλλος (múllos).
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Phrases
black mullet
black true mullet
bright mullet
bully mullet
callifaver mullet
common grey mullet
common mullet
cucumber mullet