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mullered

adj
/ˈmʊləd/UK/ˈmʊləɹd/US

Etymology

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”).

  1. inherited from *melh₂-✻ — “to crush, grind”
  2. inherited from *muldō✻ — “dirt, soil; furry growth of fungi, mould”
  3. inherited from molde — “earth, soil”
  4. inherited from mold

Definitions

  1. Badly damaged or completely destroyed

    Badly damaged or completely destroyed; ruined, trashed, wrecked.

    • My car isn’t driveable at the moment: the clutch is totally mullered.
    • The police couldn't really do what they had to do so a lot of Chelsea fans will remember that day because they got mullered and that is what counted.

  2. Drunk, inebriated.

    • Every Friday night we would go out and get completely mullered.
    • The other side of Rich, which helped balance him out, was that he loved going out and getting absolutely mullered, where he would totally lose the plot – Which I presume was a form of escapism from his carefully planned daily life.
    • It was a Saturday night. We NEVER had a Saturday night off. So we went to the Hammersmith Palais and we got absolutely mullered. The next night, we all piled off to a pub called the Sussex.

  3. Of a sportsperson, a team, etc.

    Of a sportsperson, a team, etc.: utterly defeated or outplayed; destroyed, thrashed, trounced.

    • 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.
    • Then she stuck her arms akimbo and delivered a look a mum would give to a lad who wanted to quit football just because his team got mullered.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. simple past and past participle of muller

    2. Synonym of mouldered (“turned to dust

      Synonym of mouldered (“turned to dust; crumbled, decayed, rotted”).

      • 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, […]

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