What does "mullered" mean?
simple past and past participle of muller
Mullered
/ˈmʊləd/ adj, verb, slang
adj, verb, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: simple past and past participle of muller
- Grammar: mullered is listed as adj, verb, slang.
- Nearest alternatives: drunk.
- Usage evidence: My car isn’t driveable at the moment: the clutch is totally mullered.
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Definitions
Verb
- 1 simple past and past participle of muller UK, form-of, participle, past, slang
Adjective
- 1 Badly damaged or completely destroyed; ruined, trashed, wrecked. UK, slang
"My car isn’t driveable at the moment: the clutch is totally mullered."
- 2 Synonym of mouldered (“turned to dust; crumbled, decayed, rotted”). Scotland, UK, obsolete, slang
"I have often thought in my melancholy days, these years bygone, that if it might be supposed, that the souls of our worthies were come from heaven, and the dust of their mullered bodies from their graves, and reunite again, […]"
- 3 Drunk, inebriated. UK, slang
"Every Friday night we would go out and get completely mullered."
- 4 Of a sportsperson, a team, etc.: utterly defeated or outplayed; destroyed, thrashed, trounced. UK, often, slang
"The papers were saying we were going to get mullered in the scrum. That's when the confidence started to grow. If they believe that, then that's good for us."
Synonyms
All synonymsExample
"My car isn’t driveable at the moment: the clutch is totally mullered."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "mullered"?
Common synonyms include: drunk.
How do you use "mullered" in a sentence?
My car isn’t driveable at the moment: the clutch is totally mullered.
How do you pronounce "mullered"?
Pronounced /ˈmʊləd/.
Etymology
Etymology 1
From muller (“to destroy; to beat or thrash; to utterly defeat or outplay”) + -ed (suffix forming past tense and past participle forms of regular verbs). Muller is probably derived from Angloromani mul-, the preterite stem of mer- (“to die”) (compare mullered, mullo (“dead”, adjective); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mer- (“to die; to disappear”)) + English -er (suffix forming frequentative verbs).
Etymology 2
A variant of mouldered, from moulder (“to decay, rot”) + -ed (suffix forming past tense and past participle forms of regular verbs). Moulder is derived from mould (“loose friable soil; rotting earth regarded as the substance of the human body”) + -er (suffix forming frequentative verbs), probably influenced by mould (“furry growth of fungi”); and mould is from Middle English mold, molde (“loose friable soil, dirt, earth; earth as the substance out of which God made man, and to which the human body decays into after death”), from Old English molde (“earth, soil”), from Proto-Germanic *muldō (“dirt, soil; furry growth of fungi, mould”), from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to crush, grind”).