stubborn mule

  • 21mule — mule1 /myoohl/, n. 1. the sterile offspring of a female horse and a male donkey, valued as a work animal, having strong muscles, a body shaped like a horse, and donkeylike long ears, small feet, and sure footedness. Cf. hinny1. 2. any hybrid… …

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  • 22stubborn — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. perverse, obstinate; dogged, persistent; intractable, unyielding; tough. See obstinacy, hardness. Ant., cooperative, tractable. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. obstinate, unreasonable, unyielding,… …

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  • 23mule — noun (C) 1 an animal that has a donkey and a horse as parents 2 (usually plural) a shoe or slipper without a back, that has a piece of material across the toes to hold it on your foot 3 slang someone who brings illegal drugs into a country by… …

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  • 24Stubborn as a mule —   Someone who will not listen to other people s advice and won t change their way of doing things is as stubborn as a mule …

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  • 25mule — I [[t]myul[/t]] n. 1) vet ahb. the sterile offspring of a female horse and a male donkey Compare hinny 2) inf a stubborn person 3) orn a hybrid songbird, esp. of the canaryand another finch 4) bot any sterile hybrid plant 5) cvb sts Slang. a… …

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  • 26stubborn as a mule — adjective Extremely stubborn …

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  • 27stubborn — adj. Stubborn is used with these nouns: ↑chin, ↑determination, ↑insistence, ↑mule, ↑persistence, ↑pride, ↑refusal, ↑resistance, ↑stain, ↑streak …

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  • 28stubborn as a mule — hard headed, stubborn …

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  • 29stubborn — adj 1. obstinate, mulish, muleheaded, stubborn as a mule, pigheaded, bullheaded, bullish, headstrong; willful, self willed, strong willed, contrary, perverse, wrongheaded, cross grained; balky, uncooperative, froward, refractory, rusty,… …

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  • 30stubborn as a mule — very stubborn …

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