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.'
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
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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