moo
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
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Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -uː
- Homophone: mu
Noun
moo (plural moos)
- (onomatopoeia) The characteristic lowing sound made by cattle.
- (UK, slang, mildly derogatory) A foolish woman.
- You silly moo! What did you do that for?
- 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas:
- 'Aurora House does not expel,' said the sanctimonious moo, 'but you will be medicated, if your behaviour warrants it, for your own protection.'
Derived terms
Translations
characteristic sound made by a cow or bull
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Verb
moo (third-person singular simple present moos, present participle mooing, simple past and past participle mooed)
- (intransitive) Of a cow or bull, to make its characteristic lowing sound.
Synonyms
Translations
to make a lowing sound
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Interjection
moo
Translations
sound made by a cow or bull
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Anagrams
Arabela
Noun
moo
Japanese
Romanization
moo
Manx
Etymology
From Old Irish móu, móo, from Proto-Celtic *māyos, comparative form of *māros, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic mò, Irish mó and Welsh mwy.
Adjective
moo
- comparative degree of mooar (“big, great, large”)
See also
Murui Huitoto
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Root
moo
Derived terms
Noun
moo
Noun
moo
- Synonym of mooma (“father”)
Coordinate terms
References
- Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)[1] (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 180
- Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.[2], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 125
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: mo‧o
Verb
moo
Sotho
Adverb
moo
- there; distal demonstrative adverb.
Ulch
Noun
moo
References
- Sonya Oskolskaya, Natasha Stoynova, Some Changes in the Noun Paradigm of Ulcha Under the Language Shift, 2017.
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