1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, s.v. Mull. To spend money.
Muller. To muller a hat, verb. phr. (obsolete).—To cut down a
chimney-pot hat into the low-crowned Muller. [From Müller, who murdered
Mr. Briggs on the Brighton Railway, and tried to disguise himself by
this means].
1864. Builder, November. One murderer gave us the word ‘burke;’ a
second appears likely to add to the vocabulary of trade. In a small
shop not far from Sloane-square, Chelsea, may be seen the following
tasteful announcement: Hats muller’d here!
Mulligrubs (or Mollygrubs), subs. (colloquial).—1. Colic; the
collywobbles (q.v.).
1619. Beaumont and Fletcher, Monsieur Thomas, ii. 2. ‘Whose dog
lies sick o’ th’ mulligrubs?’
1634. S. Rowley, Noble Souldier, iv. 2. Cor. The Divell lyes sicke
of the mulligrubs.
1719. Durfey, Pills to Purge, v. 311. The pox, the mulligrubs.
1738. Swift, Polite Convers., Dial. 1. What! you are sick of the
mulligrubs with eating chopt hay?
1837–40. Haliburton, The Clockmaker, p. 388 (ed. 1862). It draws
the cold out, and keeps it from flyin’ to the stomack, and saves
you a fit of the mulligrubs p’raps.
1887. Henley, Villon’s Good-Night. You coppers, narks, and dubs....
Who gave me mumps and mulligrubs.