mulligan · noun1
Attested since the 1930s in the sense “chance to re-take a golf stroke”; probably from the name Mulligan, after a golfer who replayed a stroke. See Wikipedia for more information.
Mulligan · proper noun2
- Irish · derived fromÓ Maolagáin
- English todayMulligan
Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Maolagáin, from maolagán (“person with cropped hair”), from maol (“bald”).
Words from the same roots
IrishÓ Maolagáin all →
Milligan
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.