mulley
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.45 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Alternative form of muley.
noun
A giant Asian catfish, Wallagonia Attu found in India, Sri Lanka, Burma, Indochina, Thailand, Java, and Sumatra.
noun
Example Sentences
- "Every little while I see in The Rural an article published in favor of growing mulley or hornless stock. Allow an old man of three-score years and ten, to give his experience in raising stock of the mulley kind."
- "Surrounding the whole herd, they quietly drove it down into a valley out of sight of the house, and while doing so discovered that of the whole herd there was but one animal sufficiently fat to satisfy the pampered taste of a soldier, and that was a mulley bull."
- "A female caribou has antlers same as a bull, but a cow moose is a mulley."
- "Leave milking and dry up old mulley, thy cow."
- "Little brother must be good, little brother mustn't cry, little brother's going to get a drop of milk from his good old Mulley."
- "Although not remarkably up in the world himself, yet he took care that the "mulley," at least, should occupy an elevated position in life; and so he had his stable on the flat roof, at the very top of the house, which is a high one; and he used to walk up and down the long flights of stairs which connected his home with the street below, "like a Christian," as we were once informed."