Meaning of mullety | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Resembling a mullet (haircut); mullet-like (also figuratively), short or tame in the front and long or wilder in the back.
   not-comparable
2. Starry, strewn with mullets (heraldic stars). (Also figuratively.)
   not-comparable

Examples

“Her hair is short and mullety, the same as mine when I was little—like Ned, she's totally out of step with fashion, but somehow still cool. Papa half in and half out of every photo, Grey with flowers braided through his plaits.”

“In the grooming department, there's no competition: Trevor's mullety mop of hair cannot hope to compete with this breed, nor can Cory's Willie Nelson braids. As for brains, we already know the answer to this one.”

“More people who would need to put their phones away, Kiki thought, watching the husbands, with their blue shirts and slightly mullety hair, frowning into their screens. Wonky and Willow were shrieking with Anna Goblemova, the young,[…]”

“... he found himself looking into the eyes of ten-year-old Charlie Bristow, chubby-faced, with his slightly mullety haircut: frozen forever in the eighties, his school shirt with its long pointed collar, and the huge knot in his tie.”

“year, so scientists only have one shot at collecting data on fish behavior, and it takes multiple years to see any ... The Vernal headquarters of Fish and Wildlife is a mullety block of beige government cubicles with an unruly garage[…]”

“Aurora the Knight Awakes Within a dream the night a crescent smiles, / As palely seen a sleeping knight slow turns / Who restless, battles care of many miles / While mullety his sable shield still burns. / Aurora's hands reach lightly out to[…]”

“... an interestingly complex design of Or a fillet cross Sable between a plow, a pick and shovel in saltire, an arm wielding a hammer, and an anchor fouled, all Proper, on an inescutcheon paly Gules and Argent a chief Azure mullety[…]”

“His eyes were mullety. “This place is just a juke joint now, son. In my day, it was the biggest whorehouse-casino-bootleg operation we knew of. Do you know what a whorehouse is?” “Well, I know what one is. I don't know what you do,[…]"”

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