different between mope vs mull

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /m??p/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /mo?p/
• Rhymes: -??p

Etymology

Compare Danish måbe, German muffen, French moue.

Verb

mope (third-person singular simple present mopes, present participle moping, simple past and past participle moped)

1. (intransitive) To carry oneself in a depressed, lackadaisical manner; to give oneself up to low spirits; to pout, sulk.
2. (transitive) To make spiritless and stupid.

Derived terms

• moper
• mopery
• mopey

Translations

Noun

mope (plural mopes)

1. The act of moping

2. (archaic) A dull, spiritless person.

   Synonym: mopus

3. (pornography industry) A bottom feeder who "mopes" around a pornography studio hoping for his big break and often does bit parts in exchange for room and board and meager pay.
   • 2011: LA Weekly, documenting uses dating to the 1990s

     The porn industry is many things. Subtle is not one of them. So when Porn Inc. went searching for a job title for people like Stephen Hill, the choice was "mope." It's based on the off-camera life of these fringe actors, hangers-on who mope around the studios hoping for a bit role, which if they're lucky might bring them $50 plus food — and the chance to have sex with a real, live woman.[1]

Anagrams

• poem, pome, poëm

Yola

Etymology

Cognate with English mope.

Noun

mope

1. a fool, astonished

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /m?l/
• Rhymes: -?l

Etymology 1

Related to mill (“to grind”).

Verb

mull (third-person singular simple present mulls, present participle mulling, simple past and past participle mulled)

1. (usually with over) To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate.

   to mull a thought or a problem

   he paused to mull over his various options before making a decision

   • 1912, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 5

     It was the germ of a thought, which, however, was destined to mull around in his conscious and subconscious mind until it resulted in magnificent achievement.
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.

Derived terms

• mulled wine, mulled cider

Translations

Noun

mull (countable and uncountable, plural mulls)

1. A thin, soft muslin.
2. (uncountable) Marijuana that has been chopped to prepare it for smoking.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:marijuana

3. A stew of meat, broth, milk, butter, vegetables, and seasonings, thickened with soda crackers.
4. The gauze used in bookbinding to adhere a text block to a book's cover.
5. An inferior kind of madder prepared from the smaller roots or the peelings and refuse of the larger.

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

mull (plural mulls)

1. (Scotland) A promontory.

   the Mull of Kintyre

2. A snuffbox made of the small end of a horn.

Etymology 3

From Middle English molle (“rubbish”), from Middle French mol or its etymon Latin mollis.

Noun

mull (uncountable)

1. dirt; rubbish

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Gower to this entry?)

Middle English

Noun

mull

1. Alternative form of molle (“rubbish”)

Scots

Noun

mull (plural mulls)

1. headland

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse mold, from Proto-Germanic *muld? (“dirt, soil”). Cognate with Icelandic mold, German Mull, Dutch moude and Gothic ???????????????????? (mulda).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?l/

Noun

mull c

1. mould, earth, soil

   Synonym: mylla

2. dust

Declension

References

• mull in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• mull in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)