海裡的那條魚
這就是核心本身：字最早、最久的用法。
noun · B2
A sea fish with a long rounded body that lives near the coast and is caught for food. Several related fish share the name, such as grey mullet and red mullet.
鯔魚（烏魚）
核心畫面
Hold the fish first. A mullet is an ordinary coastal fish that people catch and eat, and that use is very old: the name travelled from Greek into Latin, then French, then English, carrying the same animal the whole way. The haircut is a second, much younger use of the same spelling, and its picture is a head seen from behind: short on top, long down the neck. Our evidence gives no link between the two, so keep the two pictures side by side rather than joining them into one story.
先抓住那條魚。mullet 最早、最實在的意思可以想成一條靠岸邊游、會被撈上來吃的魚，這個用法很老，一路從希臘文、拉…更多收起
先抓住那條魚。mullet 最早、最實在的意思可以想成一條靠岸邊游、會被撈上來吃的魚，這個用法很老，一路從希臘文、拉丁文、法文傳到英文，指的都是同一類動物。髮型的 mullet 是同一個拼字的另一條線，時間晚很多，畫面也完全不一樣：從後面看一顆頭，上面短，後面長長地垂到脖子。手上的資料沒有說髮型是從魚來的，所以兩張圖並排放著就好，不要硬把它們接成一條。From the word’s history
Middle English molet, from Old French mulet (now 'grey mullet'), from Latin mullus ('red mullet'), from Ancient Greek mullos. The word has named this fish for its whole recorded history.
中古英文 molet，來自古法文 mulet（今天指 grey mullet），再往前是拉丁文 mullus（紅鯔魚），最早對到希臘文 μύλλος。也就是說，這個字有紀錄以來一直都在指這種魚。
Wiktionary (kaikki extract, source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:704921751:45667), 'mullet' etymology 1
Two branches
前短後長的髮型，以及從它借出去的比喻
跟魚只是共用同一個拼字。資料只說這個髮型講法在 1994 年的美國流行起來，沒有說它從魚來，所以這裡不接回核心，另外給它一張圖。
noun · B2
A men's haircut that is cut short on the top and at the sides, but left long at the back so that it hangs down over the neck.
前短後長的髮型