Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
From mull (“to heat and spice, etc.”, verb) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns).
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From mull (“to mix (clay and sand) under a roller to prepare a mould”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns). Mull is possibly derived from mull (“(chiefly Northern England) to grind to powder, crumble, powder, pulverize”), from Middle English mollen, mullen (“to moisten (something); to soften (something) by making wet; to become liquid; to drizzle; to crumble or soften (something) by grinding; to fondle or pet (something)”), from Old French moillier, muillier (“to make wet”) (modern French mouiller), and from its etymon Vulgar Latin *molliāre, *mulliāre (“to make wet”), from Latin molliāre, the present active infinitive of molliō (“to soften”), from Latin mollis (“soft”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld- (“to melt; to soften”) or *melh₂- (“to crush, grind”)) + -iō (suffix forming factitive verbs from adjectives).
The muller can easily plow through any sand mixture that I put in it and has plenty of power left over.2008, Stephen Chastain, Build a Muller, →ISBN, page 93:
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The noun is derived from Late Middle English molour, moler; further origin uncertain, possibly: * from mull (“(Northern England) something reduced to fine particles”, noun) or mull (“(chiefly Northern England) to grind to powder, crumble, powder, pulverize”, verb) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns) (see etymology 2); or * from an unattested Anglo-Norman or Middle French noun, from Old French moldre, moudre (“to grind”) (modern French moudre), from Latin molere, the present active infinitive of molō (“to grind, to mill”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to crush, grind”); or * a variant of mullet (“(obsolete) stone for grinding”) + -er; mullet is derived from French molette (“pestle”). The verb is derived from the noun.
The muller provides, in addition, a useful means of comparing the important property of the rate of strength development of pigments.1994, John Wilder Tukey, David R. Brillinger, The collected works of John W. Tukey, →ISBN, page 607:
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The noun is derived from Late Middle English molour, moler; further origin uncertain, possibly: * from mull (“(Northern England) something reduced to fine particles”, noun) or mull (“(chiefly Northern England) to grind to powder, crumble, powder, pulverize”, verb) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns) (see etymology 2); or * from an unattested Anglo-Norman or Middle French noun, from Old French moldre, moudre (“to grind”) (modern French moudre), from Latin molere, the present active infinitive of molō (“to grind, to mill”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to crush, grind”); or * a variant of mullet (“(obsolete) stone for grinding”) + -er; mullet is derived from French molette (“pestle”). The verb is derived from the noun.
The mixing is conducted in a water-bath, and during this process, and as long as the phosphorus is being ground or ‘mullered,’ copious fumes are evolved.1848, On Lucifer Matches, in the Pharmaceutical Journal, volume 7 (1847-8), page 523
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| mullers | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| mullered | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| mullered | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| mullering | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |
Probably 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).
You needn't make so much fuss. Nobody's going to bother about you. It's me that's going to get mullered.2001 June, Rebecca Tope, chapter 4, in Dark Undertakings, 1st St. Martin’s Minotaur (American) edition, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Dunne Books, →ISBN, section VIII, page 137:
Sure enough, they've got mullered. They're yesterday's men. The sands of time have washed over them.2006, Jez Butterworth, The Winterling, →ISBN, page 39:
"They mullered him, Jimmy." Spider shook his head. "He was completely destroyed."2009, Martina Cole, Close, →ISBN, page 286:
The boys couldn't stand idly by while three Wednesdayites got mullered; it was not the done thing.2012, Anthony Cronshaw, Wednesday Rucks and Rock 'n' Roll: Tales from the East Bank:
We walked down to the golf club to get a beer; they readily agreed as we went, it had been a dreadful game. Macca [Steve McMahon] asked Gazza [Paul Gascoigne], had he heard? – they were getting ‘mullered’ back home. […] Gazza said he wasn’t surprised, it was fair enough – and Macca said the same. He said he didn’t mind getting trashed, when they’d played a lousy game – what he hated was getting trashed for two weeks solid beforehand, when the Cup hadn’t even started.1990, Pete Davies, “All Played Out: England–Ireland”, in All Played Out: The Full Story of Italia ’90, London: Mandarin Paperbacks, published 1991, →ISBN, page 235:
Then there were these zombie cult people in the beds, wires and stuff shoved into them, and then Yianna had these two minders and they were the ones who mullered us in Cairo, I swear, and one of them grabbed Con […]2007, Stephen Cole, Thieves Like Us, page 220:
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| mullered | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| mullered | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| mullers | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| mullering | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |
Borrowed from German Müller, the surname of Franz Müller (1840–1864), a German tailor who was convicted and hanged for the robbery and murder of Thomas Briggs, a British banker, on a train. Müller was found in possession of, among other things, Briggs’ top hat, which he had altered by reducing the height of the crown by half and resewing it to the brim.
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| mullering | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| mullers | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| mullered | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| mullered | Tense=Past | lexicographic |