moo
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
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Noun[edit]
moo (plural moos)
- (onomatopoeia) The characteristic lowing sound made by cattle.
- (Britain, 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[edit]
Translations[edit]
characteristic sound made by a cow or bull
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Verb[edit]
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[edit]
Translations[edit]
to make a lowing sound
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Interjection[edit]
moo
Translations[edit]
sound made by a cow or bull
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Anagrams[edit]
Arabela[edit]
Noun[edit]
moo
Japanese[edit]
Romanization[edit]
moo
Manx[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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[edit]
moo
- comparative degree of mooar (“big, great, large”)
See also[edit]
Murui Huitoto[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Huitoto-Ocaina *mōhō.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
moo
Synonyms[edit]
References[edit]
- Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.[1], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis)
Ulch[edit]
Noun[edit]
moo
References[edit]
- Sonya Oskolskaya, Natasha Stoynova, Some Changes in the Noun Paradigm of Ulcha Under the Language Shift, 2017.
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