moo

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See also: Moo, MOO, moʻo, Moʻo, móo, móó, and möö

English

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Etymology

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Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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moo (plural moos)

  1. (onomatopoeia) The characteristic lowing sound made by cattle.
  2. (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.'

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Verb

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moo (third-person singular simple present moos, present participle mooing, simple past and past participle mooed)

  1. (intransitive) Of a cow or bull, to make its characteristic lowing sound.

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Interjection

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moo

  1. The characteristic sound made by a cow or bull.

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Anagrams

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Arabela

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Noun

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moo

  1. river

Galician

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Verb

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moo

  1. (reintegrationist norm) first-person singular present indicative of moer

Japanese

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Romanization

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moo

  1. Rōmaji transcription of もお

Manx

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Etymology

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From Old Irish móu, móo, from Proto-Celtic *māyos, comparative form of *māros, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic , Irish and Welsh mwy.

Adjective

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moo

  1. comparative degree of mooar (big, great, large)

See also

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Murui Huitoto

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moo
Root Classifier
moo-

Etymology

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Cognates include Minica Huitoto moo and Nüpode Huitoto moo.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈmɔː]
  • Hyphenation: moo

Noun

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moo

  1. 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.
  2. vocative of mooma

Declension

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Root

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moo

  1. father

Derived terms

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References

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  • 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

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Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: mo‧o

Verb

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moo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of moer

Sotho

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Adverb

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moo

  1. there; distal demonstrative adverb.

Ulch

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Noun

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moo

  1. tree, wood

References

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  • Sonya Oskolskaya, Natasha Stoynova, Some Changes in the Noun Paradigm of Ulcha Under the Language Shift, 2017.