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発音

• IPA: /ˈmʌlɪt/, /ˈmʌlət/
• 韻: -ʌlɪt
• 韻: -ʌlət

語源 1

From 中期英語 molet, mulett, from Old French mulet (now ‘grey mullet’), from Latin mullus (“red mullet”), from Ancient Greek μύλλος (múllos).

名詞

mullet (plural mullets or mullet)

1. A fish of the family Mullidae (order Syngnathiformes).

   Synonyms: red mullet, mullid, goatfish

   1. (sometimes specifically) Those of the genus Mullus within that family.

      Synonym: red mullet

2. (especially US) A fish of the family Mugilidae (order Mugiliformes).

   Synonyms: grey mullet, haarder, springer

3. (US) Any of several species of freshwater fish in the sucker family.
   1. (especially) Those in the genus Moxostoma.

      Synonyms: redhorse, jumprock

派生語

語源 2

Also termed a mullethead, possibly derived from the fish (see Etymology 1) or from mull (meaning to stupefy) though neither is certain.

名詞

mullet (plural mullets)

1. A fool.

語源 3

David Bowie with a mullet hairstyle.

Man with a long mullet hairstyle.

1994 US. Popularized and possibly coined by hip hop group the Beastie Boys in their song "Mullet Head".

名詞

mullet (plural mullets)

1. A men's hairstyle where the hair is kept short on the top and sides and long at the back.

   Synonym: hockey hair

   Coordinate term: bilevel

   • 1994, Beastie Boys, Mullet Head:

     – Mullet head, don't touch the back
     – Cut the sides, don't touch the back

   • 2008, Danielle Corsetto, Girls With Slingshots 406‎:

     – Maybe it's a curly fro.
     – Maybe every day is bad hair day!
     – Maybe it's a mullet!

2. (slang) A person who mindlessly follows a fad, a trend, or a leader.

派生語

参考

• business in the front, party in the back

語源 4

From 中期英語 molet, from Old French molette (“rowel”).

名詞

mullet (plural mullets)

1. (heraldry) A star with straight edges and usually with five or six points.
   • 1871, Debrett's illustrated baronetage and knightage (and companionage) of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, page 215:

     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.

2. A rowel of a spur.

等位語

• estoile

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