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The Mulaney Test

The Mulaney Test is the informal name of the "worse word" scenario outlined in John Mulaney's hit 2012 standup special "New in Town." Mulaney describes a situation in which he is writing for an awards show and uses the word "midget" in a script. Mulaney is confronted by network personnel and told that he "can't put the word midget on TV" because "'Midget' is as bad as the 'n-word" to which Mulaney retorts "First off: no. No, it's not! "Do you know how I know it's not," I said to him, "is because we’re saying the word 'midget,' and we’re not even saying what the 'n-word' is!"

Finally, Mulaney offers The Mulaney Test succinctly: If you're comparing the badness of two words, and you won’t even say one of them? That's the worse word.
Z: Man, the boss said some wild shit earlier.
J: Like what?
Z: Well, he was talking about Indians and some other shit I can even say out loud.
J: Oh wow
Z: Yeah, I don't know which was worse
J: Well, per The Mulaney Test, the stuff you won't say out loud was worse.
by PineapplePizza117 July 4, 2022
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mulan

Has some really excellent songs which, as it turns out, are relevant for almost any occasion. Projects underlying images of gender roles and honor in Asian society, but then that's Disney.
Mulan contains the excellent lyric, "Mysterious as the dark side of the YOOOOOON."
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Miliani

Miliani is the best person ever she is such a gorgeous girl with the best personality in the world she's so pretty and people are always jealous of her trying to make her down about herself and boys obsess over her so they say mean things.
damn is that a miliani
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John Mulaney

Person 1: whats your religion?
Person 2: John Mulaney
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MULVANE RODEO

The act of fucking a female in the ass with knees bent and in a seated position standing flat footed holding on to her ears to maintain balance.
I had a Mulvane Rodeo with your mom last night and almost pulled her damn ears off!
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Mulignan

The origin of the AE word "mulignan" is not directly linked to the italian word "melanzana" (eggplant).
"Melanzana" is the standard italian word for "eggplant" but every region and even every town in the same region has its own dialect form(s).
I wanted to go further and made a little research and here is what I found.

"Melanzana" comes from the low-latin "melangolus" or"merongolus" from the arab "bâdindgiân". It is possible to find the same name in old french "mélangène" even if the current french word for "eggplant" is "aubergine".

As you can see from these examples, all the words are similar. We can assume that the AE word "mulignan"
was imported to the US by italian immigrants coming from a southern region but nothing tells us if it was Sicily or Napoli.

I hope this helped.
According to the different regions, one can find these forms of the italian word "melanzana":

"buligname" Abruzzo
"malangiana" Calabria
"marangiana" Puglia
"marignanu" Umbria
"melangiàne" Puglia
"mulingiana", "milinciana" Sicilia
"mulignana" Napoli
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Mulan Complex

Having the innate and undeniable urge to accommodate every loved one (and sometimes even non-loved ones) out of filial duty and moral obligation.
example 1 - Because of her Mulan complex, she went to war pretending to be a boy to take her father's place in the army to save his life.
example 2 - Uman wants to just text her ex-boyfriend to tell him "Sayonara, I'm moving to London", but her Mulan Complex stopped her and she had to set up a face to face meeting to properly say goodbye, even though it's totally unnecessary and annoying for her.
by eebival May 20, 2015
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