moolike

English

Etymology

From moo +‎ -like.

Adjective

moolike (comparative more moolike, superlative most moolike)

1. Resembling or characteristic of a moo.
   • 1958, Science Digest, page 28:

     Their mating calls are more moolike; in combat, a deep lowing and growling.

   • 1963, Behaviour, E. J. Brill, page 68:

     It has a moolike quality, and shows marked resonance zones […] .

   • 1963, Country Beautiful, page 56:

     “Wanna come along?” she’d demand with a moolike bellow, followed by a tornado of laughter.

   • 1983, Sigmund A. Lavine, Wonders of Hippos, Dodd, Mead, →ISBN, page 59:

     While, as noted, a female may utter moolike calls to attract the attention of bulls, she chooses her suitor by boldly entering his refuge.

   • 1990 January 27, Itabari Njeri, Every Good-bye Ain't Gone: Family Portraits and Personal Escapades, Times Books, →ISBN, page 198:

     […] hung up the phone, the woman’s bovine voice still resonating moolike in my head.

   • 2006, Glamour, volume 104, Condé Nast, page 114:

     I learned a number of pain relief methods in childbirth class, including a dubious combination of deep breathing and low, moolike moaning that I came to think of as the Asthmatic Cow Technique.