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mulled

mulled

3.7
A warm drink made with spices like wine or cider
  • adjective
  • /mʌld/
translation icon : calentado
  • Mulled wine is the local speciality
  • mulled wine

We had the Christmas tree up, made mulled wine.

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Examples

  • Yeah, these are like, more like crafty, cutesy, crafty meat, mulled wine.

  • I also agree the mulled wine's done something.

  • I'm not the biggest fan of mulled wine, but I'm going in.

  • Then we have Brownies chocolate orange, mulled wine.

    STEPHANIE TOMS

  • On a cold winter evening, I enjoyed a cup of mulled wine infused with cinnamon and cloves.

  • We gathered around the fireplace, sipping mulled cider that filled the room with a delightful aroma.

  • At the Christmas market, vendors served delicious mulled wine that warmed us up as we strolled around.

Synonyms

spiced
vsmulled
3 1.7

Has the taste of spices like cinnamon or cloves

includes warming the drink as well as adding spice

Compounds

mulled wine
1 3.9

A drink made from wine heated with spices and served warm in winter

mulled cider
1 3.6

A hot drink made by warming sweet apple juice with spices and orange slices

How Flavored

mulled
3.7
spiced
3 1.7
to flavored
  • US
1.5
plain
208 1.0

Surface Forms

mulled positive

Morphology

mulled = mull (semi-transparent) = mull + ed

Formed by adding '-ed' to the verb 'mull', but learners may know 'mull' more commonly in the sense 'mull over' (consider), so the culinary sense may not be immediately obvious.

Etymology

Mulled comes from the old word mull, which meant 'to soften' or 'to stew'. So to mull a drink is to warm it and mix in spices and sugar until it is rich and comforting, which is why mulled wine or cider is hot and flavored.