mule

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /mjuːl/
• Rhymes: -uːl
• Homophone: mewl

From Middle English (reinforced by Anglo-Norman mul (masculine), mule (feminine)), from Old English mūl, all from Latin mūlus, from Proto-Indo-European *mukslós (compare Late Latin muscellus (“young he-mule”), Old East Slavic мъшкъ (mŭškŭ, “mule”), Ancient Greek (Phocian) μυχλός (mukhlós, “he-ass”)).

mule (plural mules)

1. The generally sterile male or female hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse.
2. The generally sterile hybrid offspring of any two species of animals.
3. A hybrid plant.
4. (informal) A stubborn person.
5. (slang) A person paid to smuggle drugs.
6. (numismatics) A coin or medal minted with obverse and reverse designs not normally seen on the same piece, either intentionally or in error.
7. (role-playing games) A MMORPG character, or NPC companion in a tabletop RPG, used mainly to store extra inventory for the owner's primary character.
   • 2007, David L. McClard, Verotopia Online: The MMORPG of the Century, Xlibris (2007), →ISBN, page 89:

     He was in the middle of organizing his massive stash of rare and exquisite bounty, all kept safely in the inventory cache of a mule, an entirely separate character which he paid a monthly fee to maintain exclusively for that purpose.

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:mule.
8. Any of a group of cocktails involving ginger ale or ginger beer, citrus juice, and various liquors.
9. A kind of cotton-spinning machine.

• See also Thesaurus:stubborn person

• ass
• donkey
• hinny (male horse X female donkey)
• horse

mule (third-person singular simple present mules, present participle muling, simple past and past participle muled)

1. (transitive, slang) To smuggle (illegal drugs).
   • 2000, Arturo Longoria, Keepers of the Wilderness

     There are many drug lords, each with his own corridor (think of it as a franchise of sorts) funneling narcotics into Texas. There are multifold methods of transport. The old, and still viable, way is to "mule" it across the Rio Grande in a small boat.

   • 2004, William Glenn, The Sailor's Death

     Thornton was supposed to mule it back to the States from one of the ports he stopped in, give it to Maxwell and Ames, and get the second half of a quarter-million.

From Middle French mule (“slipper”), from Latin mulleus calceus (“red shoe”), from mullus (“red”).

mule (plural mules)

1. A shoe that has no fitting or strap around the heel, but which covers the foot.
   • 1944, Emily Carr, The House of All Sorts, “First Tenant,”

     The bride was a shocking housekeeper and dragged round all day in boudoir cap, frowsy negligee and mules—slip, slop, slip, slop.

• IPA^(key): /muːlə/, [ˈmuːlə]

mule c (singular definite mulen, plural indefinite muler)

1. muzzle

mule (imperative mul, infinitive at mule, present tense muler, past tense mulede, perfect tense har mulet)

1. pommel, pummel, pound, lick
2. sulk

• (pommel): banke, tæve
• (sulk): surmule

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mule f (plural mules)

1. mule (animal)
2. mule (footwear)

mule f

1. plural of mula

• lume

mūle

1. vocative singular of mūlus

• mule in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

• IPA^(key): /ˈmulɛ/, [ˈmulə]

mule

1. nominative and accusative plural of mul
2. inflection of mula:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative and accusative plural

From Old Norse múli, from Proto-Germanic *mūlô.

mūle m

1. muzzle

• Swedish: mule

• IPA^(key): /ˈmu.lɛ/
• Homophone: mulę

mule

1. inflection of muł:
   1. locative singular
   2. vocative singular

mule

1. inflection of mul:
   1. nominative plural
   2. accusative plural
   3. vocative plural

mule

1. inflection of mula:
   1. nominative plural
   2. accusative plural
   3. vocative plural

mule

1. inflection of muli:
   1. neuter nominative singular
   2. neuter accusative singular
   3. neuter vocative singular
   4. nonvirile nominative plural
   5. nonvirile accusative plural
   6. nonvirile vocative plural

• mule in Polish dictionaries at PWN

mule

1. dative singular of mul