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mell

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Scrabble points
6
Words With Friends
9
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/mɛl/

Definition of mell

9 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (British, dialectal, transitive)To say (something); to speak, to tell.
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verb

  1. (British, dialectal, transitive)To say (something); to speak, to tell.
  2. (dialectal, intransitive, obsolete)To deal, concern oneself; to interfere or meddle.
    “For wher so we dwell / Deth wyll us qwell / And with us mell.”
    “Here is a great deale of good matter, / loſt for lacke of telling, / Now ſicker I see, thou doeſt but clatter: / harme may come of melling.”
    “And ſay a ſouldier (Dian) told thee this: / Men are to mell with, boyes are not to kis.”
    ““By Saint Thomas of Kent,” said he, “an I buckle to my gear, I will teach thee to mell with thine own matters, maugre thine iron case there.””

noun

  1. (UK, dialectal)Discourse; conversation.
  2. (obsolete, uncountable)Honey.
    “Her ſmyles were ſober, and her lookes were chearfull vnto all: / And ſuch as neither wanton ſeeme, noꝛ waward, mell, noꝛ gall.”
  3. (uncountable)The last grain cut at harvest; kern
  4. (dialectal)A heavy hammer or beetle of metal or wood.
  5. (obsolete)A mace or club.
  6. (obsolete)A chairman's hammer.

name

  1. A surname.

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Etymology

From Middle English melen, mælen, from Old English mǣlan (“to speak, talk”), from mǣl (“speech, talk, conversation; dispute, contest, battle”) and māl (“suit, case, action, terms, agreement, covenanted pay”), both…

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From Middle English melen, mælen, from Old English mǣlan (“to speak, talk”), from mǣl (“speech, talk, conversation; dispute, contest, battle”) and māl (“suit, case, action, terms, agreement, covenanted pay”), both from Proto-Germanic *mahlą (“meeting, congress, speech”), alteration of *maþlą (“meeting, congress, speech”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“to meet, encounter”). Cognate with Scots mele (“to speak, converse, tell”), Danish mæle (“to speak, utter”), Icelandic mæla (“to speak, say”), Old High German mahalōn (“to charge, accuse, proscecute”), German vermählen (“to wed, marry”). More at blackmail.

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