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Vinony

mould

noun

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /moʊld/ / /məʊld/

name

Etymology: English surname, from the Middle English personal name Mauld, reduced from Anglo-Norman Mathilde, a form of the name Matilda. This was a learned borrowing much less common than the vernacular forms Mahalt, Maud and the reduced pet form Till.

  1. A surname.

noun

  1. Commonwealth spelling of mold (“top of the head”).

verb

Etymology: From Middle English mowlde, noun use and alteration of mowled, past participle of moulen, mawlen (“to grow mouldy”), from Old Norse mygla (compare dialectal Danish mugle), from Proto-Germanic *muglōną, diminutive and denominative of *mukiz (“soft substance”) (compare Old Norse myki, mykr (“cow dung”)), from Proto-Indo-European *mewk- (“slick, soft”). More at muck and meek.

  1. Commonwealth spelling of mold (“to cause to become mouldy”).