mould

• (General American) IPA^(key): /moʊld/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /məʊld/

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• Rhymes: -əʊld

Via Middle English molde, moulde (“mould, cast”) and Old French modle, from Latin modulus.

mould (countable and uncountable, plural moulds)

1. British and Canadian standard spelling of mold.

mould (third-person singular simple present moulds, present participle moulding, simple past and past participle moulded)

1. British, Canadian, and Australian standard spelling of mold.

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.

mould (countable and uncountable, plural moulds)

1. (British spelling, Canadian spelling, Australian spelling) Alternative spelling of mold (“growth of tiny fungi”)

mould (third-person singular simple present moulds, present participle moulding, simple past and past participle moulded)

1. (British spelling, Canadian spelling, Australian spelling) Alternative spelling of mold (“to cause to become mouldy”)

From Old English molde. Cognate with Old High German molta, Old Norse mold and Gothic 𐌼𐌿𐌻𐌳𐌰 (mulda).

mould (plural moulds)

1. (British spelling, Canadian spelling, Australian spelling) Alternative spelling of mold (“loose soil”)

mould (plural moulds)

1. (British spelling, Canadian spelling, Australian spelling) Alternative spelling of mold (“top of the head”)