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mulish, a.|ˈmjuːlɪʃ|
[f. mule + -ish.]
Characteristic of a mule; resembling a mule; intractable, stubborn. † Also, hybrid (obs.).
1751Smollett Per. Pic. x, He was as inflexible and mulish as ever. 1765Goldsm. Ess. xxxiv. Misc. Wks. 1837 I. 372 It will continue a kind of mulish production, with all the defects of its opposite parents. 1880‘Ouida’ Moths III. 15 Obstinate is no word for it, for she is mulish.
¶ nonce-use. Pertaining to mules.
a1763Byrom Ep. G. Lloyd iii. x, For Idæus directed the Mulish Machine While Horses drew that in which Priam was seen.
Hence ˈmulishly adv., ˈmulishness.
1763J. Wilkes N. Briton No. 46 A mulishness, which could never be conquered, rendered him the contempt of all. 1835Booth Analyt. Dict. 323 A man of a sullen, obstinate temper is said..to act Mulishly. 1889R. S. S. Baden-Powell Pigsticking 82 A mulishly obstinate horse. |