Mulus
Mulus was the name for a high school graduate in Germany well into the 20th century during the - for him quite pleasant - interim period when he no longer went to school but was not yet enrolled at a university .
The metaphorical name comes from the Latin mulus ' mule ', which is neither a donkey nor a horse .
Individual evidence
- ^ Friedrich Kluge : German student language . Trübner, Strassburg 1895, p. 50. “A boyish term for a youth who has passed high school and the final exams , but is not yet a student.” Mulus . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . 6th edition. Volume 6, Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1906, p. 242 .
- ↑ Boris Parashkevov: Words and names of the same origin and structure. Lexicon of etymological duplicates in German. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2004, p. 228.
- ↑ "You know what a Mulus is: the enviable intermediate level between school desk and university", from: Christian Morgenstern : Alle Galgenlieder . Insel-Verlag, 1958, p. 15.