mull

Meaning

Verb

1. (usually) To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate.
2. To powder; to pulverize.
3. To chop marijuana so that it becomes a smokable form.
4. To heat and spice something, such as wine.
5. To join two or more individual windows at mullions.
6. To dull or stupefy.

Noun

1. (uncountable) Marijuana that has been chopped to prepare it for smoking.
2. (countable, uncountable) A stew of meat, broth, milk, butter, vegetables, and seasonings, thickened with soda crackers.
3. (countable, uncountable) The gauze used in bookbinding to adhere a text block to a book's cover.
4. (countable, uncountable) An inferior kind of madder prepared from the smaller roots or the peelings and refuse of the larger.
5. (archaic, countable, slang, uncountable) A mess of something; a mistake.
6. (Northern-England, countable, dialectal, uncountable) Dirt, dust, or other waste matter.

Noun

A thin, soft muslin.

Noun

1. (Scotland) A promontory.
2. A snuffbox made of the small end of a horn.

Noun

Friable forest humus that forms a layer of mixed organic matter and mineral soil and merges gradually into the mineral soil beneath.

Synonyms

meditate

reflect

ponder

ruminate

muse

contemplate

think

🤔

speculate

mull over

think over

cogitate

excogitate

brood

consider

study

entangle

muddle

chew over

hatch

headland

humus

incubate

judge

🧑‍⚖️

mix up

muslin

plaster

point

promontory

ratiocinate

reason

spit

sweeten

wonder

humin

acroterion

mor

scratch one’s head

add sugar

humic substances

acroterium

moder

bethink

cape

cast about

chew

conceive

confusion

deem

deliberate

drink in

Translations

réfléchir

overdenken

overwegen

mull

meditar

düşünüp taşınmak

méditer

συλλογίζομαι

erwägen

songer

😴💭

riflettere

nachsinnen

überlegen

überdenken

Mull

Pronounced as (IPA)

/mʌl/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: molle

In summary

Inherited from Middle English molle, mulle (“dust, rubbish”), possibly from Old English myl (“dust, mould”), from Proto-West Germanic *muli, a deverbal formation from *mulljan and thus cognate with Dutch mul (“dust, mould”), German Müll (“rubbish”), Swedish moln (“cloud”) and related to English mill (“to grind”). Alternatively, from Middle French mol or its etymon Latin mollis (“soft”).
Some verbal senses are supplied by Middle English mollen (“to soften, dissolve”), from Old French moillier, from Latin *molliāre (“to steep”), itself from mollis; compare moil.