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mulish

adj
/ˈmjuːlɪʃ/

Etymology

From mule + -ish.

  1. derived from *mukslós✻
  2. derived from mūlus
  3. inherited from mūl
  4. derived from mule
  5. inherited from mule
  6. suffixed as mulish — “mule + ish”

Definitions

  1. Characteristic of a mule

    Characteristic of a mule; stubborn, obstinate, or intractable.

    • […] a rickety verdigrised geyser which would spit two inches of tepid water into the bath and then mulishly stop working."

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for mulish. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA