different between mullet vs whiting

English

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Wikispecies From Old French mulet (now ‘grey mullet’), from Latin mullus (“red mullet”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (múllos).

Noun

mullet (plural mullets or mullet)

1. A fish of the family Mullidae (order Syngnathiformes), especially the genus Mullus (the red mullets or goatfish).
2. (especially US) A fish of the family Mugilidae (order Mugiliformes) (the grey mullets).
3. (US) Any of several species of freshwater fish in the sucker family (especially in the genus Moxostoma, the redhorses)

Synonyms

• (Mugillidae): haarder
• (Mugillidae): springer

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

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

Noun

mullet (plural mullets)

1. A fool

Etymology 3

1994 US. Coined and popularized by hip hop group the Beastie Boys in their song "Mullet Head".

Noun

mullet (plural mullets)

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

Synonyms

• hockey hair

Derived terms

• skullet

Translations

Etymology 4

From Old French molette (“rowel”)

Noun

mullet (plural mullets)

1. (heraldry) A star with straight edges and usually with five or six points.
2. The rowel of a spur.

Coordinate terms

• estoile

References

Portuguese

Etymology

From English mullet.

Noun

mullet m (plural mullets)

1. mullet (men’s hairstyle that is long in the back and short in the front)

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?wa?t??/, /??a?t??/
• Rhymes: -a?t??

Etymology 1

white +? -ing

Noun

whiting (usually uncountable, plural whitings)

1. A fine white chalk used in paints, putty, whitewash etc.

   Synonym: whitening

   Hyponyms: French white, Paris white, Spanish white

   • 1918, Hannah Teresa Rowley, Mrs. Helen Louise (Wales) Farrell, Principles of Chemistry Applied to the Household

     Precipitated calcium carbonate, a very fine powdery form, is used as a basis for many tooth powders and pastes. As whiting it finds a wide use in cleaning metals of their tarnishes.

Translations

See also

• whiting event

Verb

whiting

1. present participle of white

Etymology 2

From Middle English whityng, whytyng, perhaps an alteration of Old English hw?tling (“whiting”), remodelled after white +? -ing (diminutive suffix). Related to the colour white. Cognate with Dutch wijting (“whiting”), Old Norse hvítingr (“a kind of whale”).

Noun

whiting (plural whitings or whiting)

1. A fish, Merlangius merlangus, similar to cod, found in the North Atlantic; English whiting (US).
2. Any fish of many species that resemble Merlangius merlangus:
   1. (US) Any of several marine fish found in North American coastal waters, including hakes (genus Merluccius), especially Merluccius bilinearis (the silver hake).
   2. Any of the species of Sillaginidae (smelt-whitings) inhabiting Indo-Pacific marine coasts, many of which are commercially important whitefish.
   3. (Canada) Alaska pollock (Gadus chalcogrammus, syn. Theragra chalcogramma).
   4. A blue whiting (Micromesistius poutassou), a marine fish of the Northern Hemisphere.
   5. A southern blue whiting (Micromesistius australis), a marine fish of the Southern Hemisphere.
   6. Menticirrhus americanus (Carolina whiting, king whiting, southern kingcroaker, and southern kingfish) found along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States.
   7. (India, Australia) Any of the smelt-whitings, of the family Sillaginidae, including Japanese whiting, King George whiting, northern whiting, sand whiting, and school whiting.

Translations

References

• Whiting (fish) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, pg 3631

Anagrams

• withing