moo
English
editEtymology
editPronunciation
edit the sound of a cow's moo
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Noun
editmoo (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
editTranslations
editcharacteristic sound made by a cow or bull
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Verb
editmoo (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
editTranslations
editto make a lowing sound
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Interjection
editmoo
Translations
editsound made by a cow or bull
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See also
editAnagrams
editArabela
editNoun
editmoo
Galician
editVerb
editmoo
- (reintegrationist norm) first-person singular present indicative of moer
Japanese
editRomanization
editmoo
Manx
editEtymology
editFrom 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
editmoo
- comparative degree of mooar (“big, great, large”)
See also
editMurui Huitoto
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Etymology
editCognates include Minica Huitoto moo and Nüpode Huitoto moo.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmoo
- 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
editDeclension of moo
Root
editmoo
Derived terms
editReferences
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
editPronunciation
edit
- Hyphenation: mo‧o
Verb
editmoo
Sotho
editAdverb
editmoo
- there; distal demonstrative adverb.
Ulch
editNoun
editmoo
References
edit- Sonya Oskolskaya, Natasha Stoynova, Some Changes in the Noun Paradigm of Ulcha Under the Language Shift, 2017.
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