moo
English edit
Etymology edit
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Noun edit
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, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
- '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
Galician edit
Verb edit
moo
- (reintegrationist norm) first-person singular present indicative of moer
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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”)
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Murui Huitoto edit
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Etymology edit
Cognates include Minica Huitoto moo and Nüpode Huitoto moo.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
moo
- Synonym of mooma
- 2008 [1978], Huitoto Murui Bible, 2nd edition, Mateo 1:2, page 5:
- Judá mɨcorɨ amatɨaɨ mɨcorɨaɨ moo jɨaɨ Jacob mɨcorɨ.
- The late Juda's late brothers' father was also the late Jacob.
- vocative of mooma
Declension edit
Declension of moo
Root edit
moo
Derived terms edit
References edit
- 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 edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: mo‧o
Verb edit
moo
Sotho edit
Adverb edit
moo
- there; distal demonstrative adverb.
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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