Mulligan
pronunciation
How to pronounce Mulligan in British English:
UK ['mʌlɪg(ə)n]
How to pronounce Mulligan in American English:
US [ 'mʌlɪgən]
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- Noun:
- Irish version of burgoo
Word Origin
- Mulligan (n.)
- surname, from Gaelic Maolagan, Old Irish Maelecan, a double diminutive of mael "bald," hence "the little bald (or shaven) one," probably often a reference to a monk or disciple. As "stew made with whatever's available," 1904, hobo slang, probably from a proper name. The golf sense of "extra stroke after a poor shot" (1949) is sometimes said to be from the name of a Canadian golfer in the 1920s whose friends gave him an extra shot in gratitude for driving them over rough roads to their weekly foursome at St. Lambert Country Club near Montreal.
Example
- 1. Dear mulligan : first , assume nothing . "
- 2. In these cases , being involved in the cloud industry is enough to give them a mulligan .
- 3. Buck mulligan laid it across his heaped clothes .
- 4. Casey b. mulligan is an economics professor at the university of chicago .
- 5. But mr mulligan 's other complaints stand .