mule

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /mjuːl/|/mjuːəl/    美 /mjuːl/|/mjuːəl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The generally sterile male or female hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse.
    — One day he ran into a herd of a half dozen elk, so he rode his mule down the canyon three or four miles, leaving the sheep alone.
  2. Any shoe with an upper covering the front of the foot but without a back flap or strap, leaving the heel exposed.
    — The bride was a shocking housekeeper and dragged round all day in boudoir cap, frowsy negligee and mules—slip, slop, slip, slop.
  3. The generally sterile hybrid offspring of any two species of animals.
    — It would be exceedingly interesting to know if the hybrid would reproduce, a matter I deem exceedingly doubtful, for the chances are it would prove a "mule" (infertile).
  4. A hybrid plant. archaic
    — Vegetable mules supply an irrefragable argument in favour of the sexual system of botany.
  5. A stubborn person. informal
    — "Where in the hell do you think I learned to be such a mule?”
  6. A person paid to smuggle drugs. slang
    — Cocaine packet ingestion (these patients referred to as “mules”) may warrant surgery, Golytely or expectant passage.
  7. A coin or medal minted with obverse and reverse designs not normally seen on the same piece, either intentionally or in error.
    — What is less clear, however, is why mint workers should have chosen to produce mules, if they were making forgeries […]
  8. A MMORPG character, or NPC companion in a tabletop RPG, used mainly to store extra inventory for the owner's primary character.
    — 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.
  9. Any of a group of cocktails involving ginger ale or ginger beer, citrus juice, and various liquors.
  10. A kind of triangular sail for a yacht.
    — In heavier seas where a boat must sail a course dictated by waves, or where wave action makes power more important than pointing, the mule will prove the faster sail.
  11. A kind of cotton-spinning machine.
动词 v.
  1. To smuggle (illegal drugs). slang,transitive
    — 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.

词形变化

mules plural mules present,singular,third-person muling participle,present muled participle,past muled past mules plural

词汇关系

近义词
Missouri canary
衍生词
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相关词
ass donkey hinny horse

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
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Proto-Italic *musklos?
Latin mūlus
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂
Proto-Italic *-ā
Latin -a
Latin mūla
Anglo-Norman mulebor.
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Latin mūlusbor.
Proto-West Germanic *mūl
Old English mūl
Middle English mule
English mule
Inherited from Middle English mule, from Anglo-Norman mule (“she-mule”) and Old English mūl, both ultimately 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”), and German Maul Maultier, Maulesel (through Latin).
词源 2
From Middle French mule (“backless slipper”), from Medieval Latin mula (“slipper, shoe with a thick sole”), presumably from classical Latin mulleus, the dyed shoe of either the patricians or senators, from mūllus (“red mullet”) + -eus (“-y: forming adjectives”), from Ancient Greek μύλλος (múllos).
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