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mould

noun
/moʊld/US/məʊld/UK

Etymology

From Middle English mowlde, noun use and alteration of mowled, past participle of moulen, mawlen (“to grow mouldy”), from Old Norse mygla (compare dialectal Danish mugle), from Proto-Germanic *muglōną, diminutive and denominative of *mukiz (“soft substance”) (compare Old Norse myki, mykr (“cow dung”)), from Proto-Indo-European *mewk- (“slick, soft”). More at muck and meek.

  1. derived from *mewk-✻
  2. derived from *muglōną✻
  3. derived from mygla
  4. inherited from mowlde

Definitions

  1. Commonwealth standard spelling of mold.

  2. Commonwealth spelling of mold (“growth of tiny fungi”).

  3. Commonwealth spelling of mold (“to cause to become mouldy”).

  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. Commonwealth spelling of mold (“loose soil”).

    2. Commonwealth spelling of mold (“top of the head”).

    3. A surname.

The neighborhood

Derived

overmould

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at mould. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at mould. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at mould

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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